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Watching a Test match is a great teacher of the virtues that make for success in life: determination, strategy and simply keeping your eye on the ball.
Anyone watching India knows that they are beating Australia hands down at all three. India is set to win while the complacent, lucky country seems sure to waste its natural advantages.
Obviously, after the events at the MCG yesterday, I am talking not of cricket, but of energy security.
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In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his vision for an America powered by clean energy, traveling by High Speed Rail, and competing in global clean technology markets. Obama set out a clear principle: “[I]nstead of subsidising yesterday’s energy,” he implored, “let’s invest in tomorrow’s.”
Excellent idea Mr. President.
By choosing the future, not the past, President Obama has opened a fierce technology competition with China and Germany, to bring the cost of renewable energy down below gas, coal and nuclear.
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Jordan says:
Is this article seriously trying to argue that the U.S. DoE programs are a proportionally more serious commitment to lowering carbon footprint than Australia’s carbon price? I’m sure the fossil fuel lobbies in the respective countries would agree. Also, if non-hydro renewables really are just about to reach lower costs… Read more »
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James says:
Peak oil production isn’t even a theory it is an observable fact, you can see it in the data put out by the “hippy love children” at the IEA, well known for their drum circles and wild over estimates of oil price. Read more »
While the national focus has been on a carbon tax, piecemeal Federal and State Government policies encouraging households to take up renewable energy have been overcooking parts of a cake that had only started to bake.
Two very different segments of the solar energy sector are now experiencing extreme turbulence because of well-meaning but flawed efforts by policymakers to push households into a greener future.
The household renewable energy industry is in flux. Over-generous State feed-in tariffs, an unstable rebate platform and the Federal Government’s “one size fits all” renewable energy certificate trading scheme are culprits.
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Tom says:
Do you publish on The Punch, Chris? Good writing. I think we should also mention the parity price point here. Only when this point is reached and that is when no rebate is needed and solar can compete directly with conventional heating or electricity. I see the industry struggling more… Read more »
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Nheuboy says:
Your doing a great thing. Ignore the ignorant. Read more »
Australian women hate nuclear power. Men quite like it, but women would rather go back to candles.
This is the startling finding of Auspoll’s latest research, a poll of 1,500 Australians’ attitudes to the sticky problem of how we should generate the energy to run our homes, industries and, well, everything.
Not so long ago we never thought much about energy - flick a switch and there it is. We hardly knew nor cared how it was generated, how it got to our kitchens or what fuel ran the generator. It was enough that the lights came on.
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Parrish18STEFANIE says:
People in the world receive the loan from various banks, because that is fast and easy. Read more »
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cerebus says:
@John, I think we are going to have to agree to disagree. The UN links you provided showing just the maps were meaningless without background, looking around on the same site led to another page which gave more background, which indicated that whilst there was radiation detected across Europe as… Read more »
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