"BP's Interests are Not the same as America's Interests"
I've been thinking about the outrage shifting, the blame game going on right now and just want to give you my thoughts on what is happening with respect to spin and the Gulf Gusher disaster.In July...
View ArticleShine, Baby, Shine - JR goes solar
I’d put my money on solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had more years left. Thomas Alva EdisonFebruary 11,...
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200 Gigafactories Part 1
About 2 months ago, I was sitting at Brisbane Airport having just finished a stint of 21 days straight of 12+ hour work days, living away from home at a remote construction site. I was fatigued and...
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200 Gigafactories Part 2
For much of the past 20 years, I’ve worked closely with different discipline engineers, delivering all sorts of process and manufacturing plants. My job for the past few years has been to get as much...
View Article200 Gigafactories Part 3
Elon Musk, Google, Tesla, Solar City, Uber, let's imagine for a minute, just what they could be thinking about? Just a few short weeks ago : Elon Musk Says Autopilot And Self-Parking Almost Ready For...
View ArticleAn Energy Storage Revolution begins in Australia
An interesting market experiment is beginning to take shape in Australia that has significant implications for the way electricity is generated and distributed. Over 1.5 million Australian homes now...
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Busted - Rupert Murdoch - Making up the news
OK apologies, so the picture is terrible, but it’s fourth hand — Snapped on a Phone camera, Posted on Twitter or Instagram, televised on Australian TV then a snap shot taken from the frame on my...
View ArticleJohn McCain : Vladimir Putin a bigger threat than ISIS
www.abc.net.au/…Of all the candidates for US President over the past 20 years on the GOP side, there is but one who I think would have done the right thing for the USA, was not just in it for himself....
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World's Biggest Battery Set for South Australia
South Australia has announced Elon Musk's Tesla as the principal builder of the world's largest lithium ion battery to expand the state's renewable energy supply.The project is intended to sustain 100...
View ArticleAustralia's ABC Reporting on Trump & the G20
xWhat did we learn about @realDonaldTrump at this #G20? @CUhlmann explains. #Insiderspic.twitter.com/TGOXdiFWhB— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) July 8, 2017The video above, Chris Uhlmann reporting for...
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35°C above normal - "We don't know where to go after Tasmania"
Just over a week ago, this article appeared in one of Australia’s leading newspapers :'Really extreme' global weather event leaves scientists aghastIt goes without saying that as far as I can tell,...
View ArticleHis name was Digby Bamford
Murdoch’s rise to power took off in Sydney in 1964, when he acquired an afternoon tabloid, the Daily Mirror. On March 12, the Mirror front paged a report on “promiscuity” among the pupils of a city...
View ArticleFox 'News' Australia, Sky 'News', Engineers another Leadership coup
Just under two weeks ago :Rupert Murdoch arrives in Australia amid biggest media shake-up in decadesHe is expected to come to Sydney next week – he reportedly hit the road to his country estate – with...
View ArticleGreen tech jobs for Americans with new Solar technologies?
Companies all over the US are developing technologies which have the potential to reshape the way Electricity and other forms of energy are generated. They also have the potential to provide massive...
View ArticleIs solar power worth supporting?
"Better than sliced bread", "re-inventing the wheel", two clichés which, in my opinion, sum up the recent developments in concentrated solar electricity technology but not too many people seem to be...
View ArticleThe power of concentration - CSP
With both candidates expressing support for alternative energy as part of the energy solution, this is not a particularly politically motivated piece, but it is intended if you have an interest in how...
View ArticleA school of electric fish. 20 new wave power ideas.
From 1-12 December, for 12 days Poland hosts the 4th meeting of parties to the Kyoto Protocol. According to the UNFCCC website 185 parties comprising over 9000 participants will meet to map out...
View ArticleA Manhattan project for Detroit
Despite assurances to Americans about oversight on the bailout funds as they are affectionately known, this has not been the reality on the ground. With the auto industry in dire straits and looking...
View ArticleIs the answer really blowing in the wind?
Well it is a part of the answer. There are a number of interesting developments in wind technology currently available or very close to commercial realization in something called micro-wind. This is a...
View Articlewooden power poles self-igniting
This is happening where?'Worst day in history'"He recalled scenes last week of wooden power poles self-igniting."or this "Heatwave puts morgue under pressure"Welcome to Victoria, Australia circa 2050?...
View ArticleUpdated: Printing Solar panels with Silicon Ink on Discovery
In the past few days I have received a couple of emails indicating that there is a Discovery Channel special on Wednesday (tonight) at 10pm, called Earth : The Sequel. This is based on the book by...
View ArticleHoa Lo, Hanoi Hilton, Hell's Hole
From early 2000 until mid 2002, I worked for an American company in Northern Vietnam in a rural area commissioning a power station. One of the regular places we'd often meet up at for a few beers...
View ArticleAustralia - Public Health-Care since 1975
I've been following the discussions on DailyKos and through the American media about health care and insurance and figured the Australian model is probably something Americans would like to know...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting America - LA
During the month of August I had my first visit to the United States of America. I was visiting for a few reasons one of which to see if America is anything like what you see on TV, Cops or Fox News...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting America - Adrenalin Media
Yesterday I discussed my gut reaction to a segment on Fox News in the US on one of their cable TV talk shows. As an Australian watching another (ex)Australians television network instructing people...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting America - Fox News
On the anniversary of 9/11 Americans stopping to take time out to think about the country they live in and respecting each other in honor of the victims, in my opinion should be what this day in...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting Beckistan - Glenn's America
This is my second last write up on the hatred I saw on Cable TV in the US, being incited by Fox News in order to create civil disharmony in America, turn Americans against each other. The most recent...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting America - Las Vegas
In my first diary about my trip across the US, I mentioned that in 2004 I'd won the "US Green Card Lottery", had thought about taking the offer up for about 6 months and then decided the country I...
View ArticleHigh Country to Appalachia
One of Australia's more iconic movies, based on a poem by one of our most famous poets, A.B. Banjo Paterson, tells the story of a young cattleman making a start, proving his worth in the mountains of...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting America - American ingenuity
Albert EinsteinOld Grove Rd. Nassau Point Peconic, Long Island August 2nd 1939F.D. Roosevelt President of the United States White House Washington, D.C. Sir: Some recent work by E.Fermi and L....
View ArticleMr Murdoch, when did you run for election for PM/President?
Lets see : AAP - Australian Associated Press is owned by four Australian news organisations. Fairfax and News Ltd both own 45%Is on the Associated Press board Rupert Murdoch joins Associated Press...
View ArticleBuilding a country's energy infrastructure
My first job, out of high school, was as an apprentice Electrician at a coal mine. I can remember after maybe 12 months or so, after having gotten used to working with the dozen or so different...
View ArticleOz Solar Technologies - With Poll
For a few years now I have been following the development of a number of renewable energy technologies. This is a keen interest of mine as my background has been predominantly in the power industry,...
View ArticleAn Aussie Visiting America - Boulder City Solar
During a trip in August, across the United States, one of the things I had planned was to visit a number of solar installations. Just out from Las Vegas, not far from the airport at Boulder City which...
View ArticleMoore's Law for Solar - 30c watt in years to come
"We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present and call it GDP (Gross Domestic Product)" Paul Hawken The United States as of 2007, had approximately 1,087 Gigawatts of...
View ArticleDisruptive Solar technologies
Yesterday I wrote of a technology called concentrated photovoltaics, which if all goes well, may bring the retail cost of solar panels down from at present, $4.31 per watt, to 30c per watt. Moore's Law...
View ArticleA complementary Solar Revolution diary (repost)
This is a repost of a diary I wrote late last year about some of the technologies the United States is developing in the solar space.This has been reposted for those that missed it in order to...
View ArticleChina is spending $12M per hour on clean energy R&D
You can confirm this for me, but I believe American innovation has always driven a sense of national pride. In fact being at the leading edge of scientific discovery and having mechanisms in place so...
View ArticleThe Gulf appears to be bleeding - Worse Than BP Admits
Video from May 7th (4 days ago) flyover of Gulf of Mexico and location of sunken Deepwater Horizon courtesy, Current TV. Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Worse Than BP AdmitsFlyover video by John...
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