New coal power cannot compete with solar and wind - Mark Diesendorf The writing is on the wall for coal power and indeed for all fossil-fuelled electricity. In 2017 new global investment in all fossil-fuelled power (coal + oil + gas) was US$145b. But new global investment in renewable electricity … [Read more...]
New coal doesn’t stack up
New coal doesn’t stack up – look at QLD renewable energy numbers - Matthew Stocks and Andrew Blakers During August the federal government has been inking a deal with the states on the National Energy Guarantee, but it appears still to be negotiating within its own ranks. Federal energy … [Read more...]
The renewable energy train is unstoppable
The renewable energy train is unstoppable The NEG needs to get on board Ken Baldwin One of a growing number of solar energy plants proliferating within Asian countries (this one in central Thailand funded by the Asian Development Bank). The world's largest solar plant is in China (Tengger … [Read more...]
Does economic growth make us happier
Does economic growth make us happier? - Editor The following reference to the work of Richard Easterlin [1] has been extract- ed from a paper by Asad Zaman and Mehmet Karaçuka [2]: "In Easterlin’s (1974) seminal paper, he finds that within any one country, in cross sectional studies, there was a … [Read more...]
