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    Nuclear may (or may not) be expensive, but it's much faster to build than renewables!
    Geoff Russell
    • 3 days ago
    • 7 min

    Nuclear may (or may not) be expensive, but it's much faster to build than renewables!

    This is the first of two posts, and deals with the speed of building nuclear reactors. The next post will deal with costs. Build speeds...
    1,902 views
    Mining Australia for meat
    Geoff Russell
    • Aug 1
    • 5 min

    Mining Australia for meat

    I don't remember the year, but it was shortly after the 2005 release of Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How societies choose to fail or...
    38 views
    Renewable gas
    Geoff Russell
    • Jul 27
    • 8 min

    Renewable gas

    [N.B. Longer article on Grid Capacity, promised last week, has been delayed a little ... but is still coming] I keep seeing news reports...
    45 views
    Grid capacity and keeping the lights on (prelude)
    Geoff Russell
    • Jul 20
    • 4 min

    Grid capacity and keeping the lights on (prelude)

    [ This is just a taste of a longer post to appear later this week ]. How do you climb a mountain? Do you look just 50 metres in front of...
    83 views
    Stop Press: Germany's nuclear plants
    Geoff Russell
    • Jul 19
    • 3 min

    Stop Press: Germany's nuclear plants

    Finally, the pounding of rationality has opened the great oak door of German energy policy by a centimetre or so. Germany may look at...
    419 views
    EU Sustainability Taxonomy ... why allow solar PV?
    Geoff Russell
    • Jul 14
    • 13 min

    EU Sustainability Taxonomy ... why allow solar PV?

    The EU sustainable development rules are in the news again. I wrote about them back in January, but there have been some developments. ...
    105 views
    Readfearn and Australia's electricity "plan"
    Geoff Russell
    • Jul 7
    • 10 min

    Readfearn and Australia's electricity "plan"

    The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has drawn up a detailed Integrated System Plan (ISP) for the eastern Australian grid (the...
    111 views
    A plea for professionalism in climate journalism in Australia
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 29
    • 15 min

    A plea for professionalism in climate journalism in Australia

    The IPCC Assessment Report 6, Working Group III devotes considerable attention to dietary change as a necessary part of tackling climate...
    98 views
    Blackout: tomorrow is too late
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 22
    • 21 min

    Blackout: tomorrow is too late

    "Blackouts" seem to be the new black. SBS On Demand is running a couple of mini-series on them at the moment. There's a 2020 Belgian 10...
    65 views
    Blackout tales
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 15
    • 4 min

    Blackout tales

    Once upon a time, a fat red-faced businessman called Bill Watts built a power station. It cost him a billion dollars and was soon...
    177 views
    Washing on the "green hydrogen" spin cycle
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 8
    • 7 min

    Washing on the "green hydrogen" spin cycle

    The Economist recently interviewed the German Europe and climate Minister, Anna Luhrmann, about Germany's will and capacity to wean...
    365 views
    Modelling grids and telling fibs
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 1
    • 16 min

    Modelling grids and telling fibs

    Claims that we can move to 100 percent renewable electricity are based on mathematical models; as is climate science. But you can test...
    458 views
    The teal climate alternative
    Geoff Russell
    • May 25
    • 12 min

    The teal climate alternative

    An analysis of what the Teal vote in Australia's General Election means for climate action.
    234 views
    How emission targets dug us deeper into a climate hole
    Geoff Russell
    • May 17
    • 13 min

    How emission targets dug us deeper into a climate hole

    What's the image all about? ... see the appendix at the end of the article. We desperately need a global plan to get to net-zero (or...
    164 views
    CSIRO; still denying climate science and working to screw the planet
    Geoff Russell
    • Apr 24
    • 5 min

    CSIRO; still denying climate science and working to screw the planet

    Page 2055 of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 3 report (what a mouthful!) contains a remarkable...
    87 views
    There is a nuclear waste problem; but it's not what you think
    Geoff Russell
    • Apr 14
    • 11 min

    There is a nuclear waste problem; but it's not what you think

    When did the word "logistics" start appearing on trucks? It's become quite the fashionable tag for all manner of companies; waste...
    5,165 views
    European word games
    Geoff Russell
    • Jan 6
    • 10 min

    European word games

    The EU is inching toward classifying nuclear power and methane as 'sustainable' for the purposes of getting onto a magic list that...
    243 views
    Inner city latte sippers and big chemical plants
    Geoff Russell
    • Jul 11, 2021
    • 8 min

    Inner city latte sippers and big chemical plants

    As a vegan, I was a little miffed at not being tagged by Michael McCormack’s inner city latte sipper comment; but I’m guessing he has an...
    77 views
    A tale of two projects: Wheatstone LNG Hub and the Asian Renewable Energy Hub
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 22, 2021
    • 4 min

    A tale of two projects: Wheatstone LNG Hub and the Asian Renewable Energy Hub

    Asian Renewable Energy Hub ... blocked (for now). Who remembers Kelly's Bush? You probably need to have been alive in the 1970s in Sydney...
    74 views
    IEA calls for big investment in nuclear power
    Geoff Russell
    • Jun 14, 2021
    • 12 min

    IEA calls for big investment in nuclear power

    Preamble You could be forgiven for not realising that the recent (May 2021) IEA Roadmap to net-zero by 2050, for energy emissions, was...
    200 views
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