Category: Global Warming
2025 is a year of promise
2025 stepping up The start of a new year might be an arbitrary moment in time but it instills a sense of things moving forward. There are still plenty of problems to solve and opportunities that come from those solutions and we are choosing to look at 2025 through that lens. So what are the…
Renewable Energy Progress 2023
Renewable Energy Regardless of where you sit on the climate crisis versus beat up continuum, generating renewable energy that doesn’t continue to create pollution post manufacture has a lot of merit. So where are we at now that it is 2023 and we are green house gas looking at pollution reduction targets over the next…
Saving our planet 2021
Saving our Planet! OK, I admit it. That is a big title. But also a big topic. So what do I mean? Australia was recently named the country lagging behind every other country in the world for climate action. In a review of the 193 United Nations countries, Australia was ranked country 193. If you…
Climate Strike 2019
Climate Strike You will probably have heard that students have been holding Global Climate Strike protests because they are concerned about the future of the world, a world they will be responsible for one day, and don’t believe the current leaders are taking the threat of Climate Change and Global Warming seriously. This is a…
Hydrogen Fuel from Ammonia
Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen Fuel has a lot of great positives. It has been used to he moon and to power spacecraft. But it does have an annoying problem. Hydrogen is the smallest atom and the H2 molecule is the smallest molecule. So it is hard to keep hold of. It leaks. A recent breakthrough…
Renewable Energy Cleans Up Coal
Renewable Energy On The Rise Renewable Energy is having a big impact all over the world. I was particularly pleased to hear that a new deal on energy prices in the USA offered solar electricity generation at $0.0199 per kWh and electric energy from storage batteries at $0.013. You can read the details for yourself…
Sodium Ion Batteries
Battery Technology Batteries have come a long way. There are still a lot of things we can do with existing technologies and this was covered in Making Batteries Better. Lithium Ion Battery The leading Rechargeable Battery Technology at present is the Lithium Ion Battery because of the high energy density and reduced weight compared…
Improving Power Distribution
Electrical Power Distribution Electricity is essential to the modern world. It is the power source behind the vast majority of modern appliances. And for large quantities of it, we are currently mostly burning things to produce heat to run generators to create AC power to transformers to high voltage power lines to more transformers, low…
Electric Vehicles: History
Electric Vehicles This is a post I started six years ago and decided not to publish. Since then things have changed a lot so here goes. The History of Electric Vehicles The Electric Vehicle has been around for a long time. The new push to Electric Vehicles is mostly being pushed by the belief…
LED Street Lighting
LED Street Lighting With concern for rising global emissions and the majority of the worlds power still generated by burning fuels of one kind of another, the replacement of older street lighting technologies with higher efficiency and longer life LED Street Lighting would appear to make sense. And on the up side, everyone agrees that…