This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
the mad cow disease and the dioxin scare in Europe has spelt doom for kangaroos in Australia. The animal has increasingly come under threat in the wake of export of large quantities of kangaroo meat to Europe in recent weeks. "Kangaroo meat is ideally suited for barbecue and char-grill, and …
in applications like satellite navigation, a fraction of a second here or there can send the satellite straying off its path. The best clocks in the world (including the international definition of the second) are based on a specific transition of electrons in caesium atoms. Now, a team of scientists …
iron powder and magnets may come to the rescue of birds caught in oil spills. John Orbell and his colleagues at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the iron is sprinkled on the affected areas of the birds and combing the feathers with a magnet removes oil …
the history of Australia is closely linked to the fires that have engulfed the continent for centuries. Captain James Cook who reached the Australian shores in 1770 described it as a "continent of smoke'. Some describe it as a land shaped by smoke ( New Scientist , Vol 162, No …
the traditional owners of the Jabiluka uranium mine site in Australia won a reprieve in their battle to halt the project when the company, Energy Resources Australia ( era ), "temporarily' suspended work. The company said the decision to stop work on the underground tunnel to the ore body was …
a very important factor behind the growth of Australia in the past 100 years has been the availability of freshwater from the artesian wells of the Great Artesian Basin ( gab ). The basin is the world's largest underground source of freshwater. An artesian well is a perpendicular boring into …
Lack of sunshine did not deter a team of students from attempting to break a five-year-old record for the fastest solar car crossing of Australia from Perth to Sydney. The students from the University of South Wales, Australia, battled rains, floods and dust storms as they drove the solar-powered NRMA …
climatologists believe it is unlikely that 1999 will be quite as warm as 1998. Figures released by the Australia's Bureau of Meteorology reveal that at 22.54
a strain of influenza, originating from Sydney in Australia, is being blamed for causing chaos in London's health care system. The Sydney flu bug has been sweeping southern parts of Britain after initially being found in the British Midlands and the north of the country. The bout of influenza has …
australian scientists are working to produce the world's first smokeless cigarette. It will allow smokers to inhale nicotine much like an ordinary cigarette but will have no smoke
Bushfires in New South Wales, Australia, have claimed the lives of five people and injured 27 in the past three months. In addition to the 4,500 sheep that were killed, the fires consumed about 8.91 hectares of grassland. There are about 22 fires blazing across New South Wales
This time, there are no excuses. It was not climate change, not a meteor and not global warming. Humans, and not any other agent, may have pushed Genyornis , an ostrich-sized Australian bird, into extinction some 50,000 years ago, recent research has revealed. More than 40 of Australia's animals disappeared …
australia is about to set up a stock exchange for trading emissions in the next century, and although the modalities are yet to be finalised, the Sydney Futures Exchange will be the most-likely venue, said James Waldren, a key member of the Sydney Futures Exchange Limited. "Emissions trading will just …
the Australian government has denied that it was selling timber from Victoria's native forests at a very low price. According to them, the royalties for the "debris', that would otherwise be left to burn or rot, are as low as nine cents a tonne. The government came under attack over …
scientists have found a way to make eucalyptus and other trees grow a little faster. They have identified the key genes which are responsible for the development of wood in trees. They have also developed a new process for the testing of genes in the laboratory. Gerd Bossinger of the …
scientist Peer Schenk, who works at the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Pathology ( crctpp ) in Brisbane, Australia said that his institute has made a breakthrough that could transform the agricultural industry. The development could help feed millions and save children in poor countries by producing crops that …
CLIMATOLOGISTs believe that 1999 will not be quite as warm as 1998. Figures released by the Australia's Bureau of Meteorology reveal that the average temperature last year was 22.54oC. It was 0.73oC higher than the average between 1961 and 1990. In fact, each year of this decade has been hotter …
The stand-off between Greenpeace activists and a shipping company at Botany Bay harbour in Sydney, Australia, has come as a wake-up call for South Asian countries where ship-breaking is a growing and for few, a very lucrative industry (Down To Earth, Vol 6, No 20). In a high-pitch drama, activists …
