What EVs are available in Australia? There are over 30 different EV manufacturers in the world. This is a small subset of what is available globally. Here’s every new electric vehicle available for purchase in Australia, ordered from least expensive to most expensive (MSRP) as of September 1, 2022. BYD Atto 3: $44,381MG ZS EV Excite: $44,990BYD Atto 3 Extended Range: $47,381Hyundai Ioniq…
Musings on Truth in Public Life Or, less kindly. A policy decade cluster-fuck. The Australian Energy Market Operator has SUSPENDED the National Electricity Market across all five participating states, saying the market has become: “impossible” to operate because of the soaring cost of fossil fuels and generators withholding their capacity from the market.AEMO 2022 Tony, Scott, Barnaby, Angus... Everybody OUT…
At times like these, it’s worth considering the words of Carl Sagan. https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g Pale Blue Dot Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident…
Source: Geoscience Australia Just sayin... The Australian continent has the highest solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world. That's 10,000 times LARGER than our energy consumption!Geoscience Australia
For your consideration. Elon Musk’s thoughts on solar energy versus nuclear energy. https://youtu.be/DB_zSKJDGpU
Letter to Marble 3 https://youtu.be/0R7EN_GTAlw Links Type 1 - People Type 1 - Planet
What's next? Opining the lack of type 1 people in public leadership? Federal Election. Climate change anyone? Looking back to look forward. In 1916, the year my father was born, we only knew of our own galaxy. Think about that for a moment... We did not think there were any other galaxies. Consider that in just over one lifetime, we…
A small series of posts over the next week or so on the concept of "Type 1". These will be People, Planet and Challenges. Why? Simply put, my recent experience of public discourse and political debate in Australia (and those seeking public office) suggests we need to look closely for genuine intellectual honesty, strategic vision and coherent world views that can…
On July 11 2008, I referenced the CSIRO, Australia's leading scientific and industrial reasearch organisation, which had just published its "Fuel for Thought" paper which was a direct result of the November 2007 'Future Fuels Forum". I also referenced a as speech by John Hofmeister, then President of Shell Oil, USA, speaking about Shell's position on energy conservation and Global…