Geoff Russell
A critique of Joëlle Gergis QE94: Highway to Hell
A critique of Joëlle Gergis' recent Quarterly Essay "Highway to Hell, Climate Change and Australia's future".
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 16
- 7 min
AI vs Q&A on nuclear waste
Comparing AI with Q&A on nuclear waste. Who should you goto for expert information?
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 8
- 5 min
Dispatchability: Deception on demand
What is dispatchable generation and how has the Government politicised the concept and corrupted its meaning
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 28
- 15 min
Scrutiny of energy transitions: is our media up to the job?
Peter Dutton's nuclear plan and the media storm around it has raised questions over our media's capacity to analyse any energy plan.
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Geoff Russell
- Jun 9
- 5 min
How the CSIRO and AEMO buried $200 billion of added renewable electricity costs
The AEMO ISP & Gencost agree that costs on the other side of the meter can be ignored. That's how they find renewables cheaper than nuclear.
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Geoff Russell
- Mar 12
- 7 min
"Insiders" and anti-nuclear bias
"Insiders" on March 10th showed a level of unprofessionalism, ignorance and bias that deserves to be called out
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Geoff Russell
- Dec 16, 2023
- 9 min
Parliamentary inquiry into duck shooting; couldn't hit the side of a barn
The long running SA Parliamentary Inquiry into the hunting of native birds was a total waste of taxpayers money.
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Geoff Russell
- Jul 1, 2023
- 12 min
Populist Quiz: Is Green The New Brown?
Should the Australian Greens party be names the Browns? No, not in honour of Bob Brown, but in honour of being the parties of big mining.
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Geoff Russell
- May 30, 2023
- 8 min
The right to care deeply about the climate while being utterly useless
Fining or jailing people for climate protests shows a lack of imagination almost as large as the protests themselves.
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Geoff Russell
- May 15, 2023
- 12 min
The good liar
A critique of the role of lies in the nuclear power debate
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Geoff Russell
- Mar 30, 2023
- 6 min
Safeguard mechanisms and climate bombs
The UK Independent newspaper ran a remarkable line about the deal between the Greens and the Australian Government on the so-called...
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Geoff Russell
- Mar 1, 2023
- 3 min
Big Coal isn't as big as it used to be!
RenewEconomy recently ran an interesting article with an amazing headline: “Cannon-Brookes backed fund to deliver "coal plant-worth” of...
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Geoff Russell
- Feb 14, 2023
- 22 min
Gambling on the grid
Suppose you are trying to shift Australia’s 30 million tonne grain harvest and somebody has decreed that you couldn’t use anything other...
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Geoff Russell
- Jan 3, 2023
- 20 min
Merchants of doubt and merchants of fear
Climate scientist Matthew England interviewed Naomi Oreskes, who, with Erik Conway, wrote: “Merchants of Doubt; How a handful of...
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Geoff Russell
- Dec 22, 2022
- 9 min
Hard to decarbonise: Diesels Part II
I posted about decarbonising diesel engines a while back and it’s time for part II: solutions. But “approaches” is definitely a more...
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Geoff Russell
- Dec 5, 2022
- 11 min
Hard to Decarbonise: Diesels
This is the start of a series on hard-to-decarbonise parts of the global economy. The first part will be diesel engines and it will take...
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Geoff Russell
- Nov 23, 2022
- 5 min
The great Australian greenwashing scam
One of the less frequently reported events at COP27 in Egypt was the presentation of a UN report on Corporate Greenwashing. At least I...
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Geoff Russell
- Nov 7, 2022
- 17 min
Zali Steggall and Australia's cargo cults
I vaguely remember learning about cargo cults at school. Are they still in the curriculum? Perhaps there is so much competition in the...
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Geoff Russell
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
The methane is hitting the fan
Back in 2009 I wrote a book, CSIRO Perfidy, about the most environmentally destructive diet on the planet … the Commonwealth Scientific...
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Geoff Russell
- Sep 30, 2022
- 5 min
Deliver us into evil, for gas is the glory, hallelujah!
The global energy market is becoming transfixed by gas. Without adequate gas supplies, people in cold climates will be dying, or very...
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