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We’ve now covered all the major technologies proposed by Tom Blees in the book Prescription for the Planet – Integral Fast Reactor nuclear power for electricity generation, boron-fuelled vehicles for transport, and plasma burners for recycling of waste. Set in the context of a legacy of ongoing problems, with stockpiles of nuclear waste and weapons, […]
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Last year, the University of Adelaide hosted two seminar series on climate change, addressing the science, impacts, adaptation and mitigation: Climate 2030 and Climate Change Q&A. Starting next week, we’ve got a new 12-part series launching: Climate Futures. The 2008 Climate 2030 seminars (podcasts and slides downloadable here) addressed a range of issues relating to […]
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As noted in my previous post on Integral Fast Reactors (IFR), Jim Green, from Friends of the Earth (FoE), has posted a critique of IFR. Below, I (and others, names in square brackets), respond to his major points (in green): [BWB] = Barry W Brook, [TB] = Tom Blees, [GS] = George Stanford, [GLRC] = GLR […]
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Climate change is like a stalking predator, a threat that first crept up, and then swiftly leapt out at the ecological science community. There is no doubt it was an issue around which there was a simmering awareness for decades. However, recent detailed multidisciplinary studies, which have pored over numerous long-term datasets (most compiled for […]
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Guest Post by Tim Kelly. Tim is works as a Principal Climate Change Advisor in the Water Industry. The Federal Government has now released its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme White Paper and as expected the mechanism it has chosen is that of a pollution permit and trade system (cap and trade). The cap and trade […]
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There was both interest and confusion over at the ABC Unleashed site when I wrote my first piece there on nuclear power. Going by the comments, most folks who were traditionally anti-nuclear continued to harbour their old beliefs and misconceptions about the technologies involved, even after reading my short piece. I did briefly (in one […]
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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has released a detailed analysis of the 2009 southern Australian heatwave. Some of the figures presented are staggering, with numerous temperature records smashed. Indeed, a colleague at BOM pointed out just how exceptional this event was: “Given that this was the hottest day on record on top of the […]
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Last year, 2008, was about the 9th hottest year in the instrumental record (range: 7th to 10th). It certainly wasn’t the hottest year. That record goes to either 1998 or 2005, depending on which temperature record you look at. NASA’s GISTEMP gives it (slightly) to 2005, whilst the Hadley Centre and the two satellite measures (UAH and […]
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Adelaide is the hot place to be right now. We’re in the middle of an extreme, enduring heatwave, and the city’s residents are suffering. Indeed, we’ve had rolling blackouts as the power system fails to meet peaking loads, and more people are suspected to have died from heat stress over the last week than were […]
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