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, …
Arsenic-contaminated water can now be disinfected by exposing it to sunlight and air, according to scientists working with the Cooperative Research Centre for Waste Management and Pollution Control in Sydney, Australia. The ultra-violet radiation in sunlight helps the dissolved oxygen to oxidise arsenic to a less toxic form, which can …
The English said it before. And the Australians have said it now. But the fact remains that New Delhi continues to display its polluted profile to visiting cricketers, so much so that the Australian cricket team has vowed not to have the capital city in its itinerary as a future …
as the koala (a marsupial resembling a small bear) population surges ahead, desperate measures are being called for. The latest one includes contraception where the male koalas will be given vasectomies and females provided with hormone implantations to stop them from ovulating. The three-year trial is to start this month …
native rights are about to get tossed around with the new conservative federal government in Australia bringing in a set of proposed legislative amendments. Effectively, the amendments to the three-year-old Native Title Act would mean that in cases of disputes between aboriginal native title claimants and companies, the government can …
a worm' s life is offering something to humans, in way of knowledge about cell death. Besides setting a limit to our lifespans, death also plays an important role during pre-reproductive life. In this phase, cells and tissues within the organism die in the course of normal development
the beautiful lotus flower is not only a feast for the eyes; scientists have discovered that it has the remarkable ability to regulate its temperature to a constant degree irrespective of external temperatures. Physiologists Roger S Seymour and Paul Schultze-Motel from the University of Adelaide, Australia, found that the lotus …
the controversial rabbit calicivirus will be let loose on purpose in Australia, end of September, to decimate the rabbit population which has caused havoc in the island continent. Amidst fears that the virus could jump species, the Australian government announced that the virus would be released once the approval of …
Mechanical jaws with multiple uses are set to eliminate many back-straining farm tasks by adding versatility to the standard farm tractor. An Australian farmer, Geoff Lucas has designed the
Nepal will continue to benefit from Australia's assistance in the community forestry sector. A new project in the districts of Sindhupalchok and Kabrepalanchok will have the backing of Australian expertise and aims to incorporate community forestry with income generation and conservation activities. This project will begin early next year once …
the alarm bells started ringing in September last year when a farmer in Ethuca, a small town on the banks of the river Murray in Northern Victoria, Australia, tried to clear his farm of an annual ryegrass, Lolium rigidum , which is a routine practice before the plantation of summer …
The bacterium belonging to the Rhodococcus genus can not only neutralise benzene but may also be able to transform it into a source of useful chemicals. This was reported by microbiologists at the University of New South Wales in Australia. The bacterium neutralises benzene's effect by metabolising it. It destroys …
GENETICS could come to the rescue of cotton farmers in Australia. A genetically engineered pesticide will be introduced in the country to battle the pests which have devastated cotton crops. The enemy is the long-standing predator of cotton crops, the boll caterpillar, which has developed such a powerful resistance to …
A six-year-old mine dispute between the villagers of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia's largest company, the Broken Hill Pty Company (BHP) Ltd has been settled out of court. PNG landowners and their Australian law firm, Slater and Gordon, agreed to drop their claim for US $3.2 billion compensation for …
EVEN severely disabled people have reasons for hope with the unveiling of a new device in Australia recently. With the help of this device, disabled people can one day use their brain waves to operate stereos, lights, telephones and even scroll through a computer menu of more complex options. The …
Genetic engineers at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, have developed a new variety of cotton which is capable of destroying its insect pests. A gene from a soil bacterium, Bacillus thurengensis - which is a naturally occuring insecticide -is incorporated into the cotton varieties. The gene encodes a …
AROUND 2,000 teddy bear-like, adorable koalas, which could have possibly been killed, have won a reprieve. A boom in, the koala population on Kangaroo Island, 160 kin southwest of Adelaide, forced South Australia's national parks and wildlife service to tome to a painful decision of either having to kill the …
The Australia-based Scholar Incineration Company, has developed a three-stage incineration process to destroy biomedical waste completely (Vatis Update. Vo15, No 11). The first sta&e; involves burning wastes by a process cailed 'excess air combustion'. The toxic gases thus produced are fed into a second chamber where temperatures exceed 1,000
The largest methane gas collection programme in the world has begun at a huge sewage treatment plant at Werribee near Melbourne, Australia. The plant is expected to generate 800 KW of electricity. Sewage at the plant is treated in ponds in a two- phased process. The first is by an …
Scientists from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Pacific Power, Australia, have produced a synthesis of carbon monoxide and hydrogen by combining methane, carbon dioxide and the sunlight, which makes it possible to store and transport solar energy. When the synthesised gas is changed back into carbon …
