This is Part III of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by NNadir. For Part I, click here. Part II is here. In part 2 of this series, we discussed the claim of Udo Bardi, an academic ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/10/19/sustaining-the-wind-part-3-is-uranium-exhaustible/
Originally published here on The Conversation. Earth is now a human planet. Our species uses of a large proportion of its land-surface area for living space, agriculture and mining. We domesticat...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/04/26/an-ecomodernist-manifesto-intensify-to-spare-nature/
Back in 2013, I led some research that critiqued the ‘Planetary Boundaries‘ concept (my refereed paper, Does the terrestrial biosphere have planetary tipping points?, appeared in Trends in E...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/01/16/the-limits-of-planetary-boundaries-2-0/
Guest Post by NNadir (who blogs occasionally at Daily Kos, profile here). This is a long but really interesting post. If you’d rather a PDF version, click here. The International Energy Agency ...
Professor Barry W. Brook, Chair of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania, Australia. barry.brook@utas.edu.au Professor Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Chan...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/12/15/an-open-letter-to-environmentalists-on-nuclear-energy/
I’m still in the process of moving house (I’ve now arrived in Tassie, but my furniture is still in transit…). But I have my Notebook computer, so I’m set, right? Anyway, on the weekend I...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/10/07/the-left-vs-the-climate/
Pick up a research paper on battery technology, fuel cells, energy storage technologies or any of the advanced materials science used in these fields, and you will likely find somewhere in the in...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/08/22/catch-22-of-energy-storage/
On July 28, I (Barry Brook) was an invited participant in a public discussion and Q&A session on the future of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Australia. It was organised and hoste...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/08/07/nuclear-energy-the-debate-australia-has-to-have/
Graham Palmer, author of the recent book “Energy in Australia: Peak oil, solar power and Asia’s economic growth” (reviewed on BNC here), has just done an excellent ABC radio presentation o...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/07/17/bev-in-australia-charging-model/
The below is a (short) chapter I wrote for the recent book “The Curious Country“, published by the Australian Office of the Chief Scientist. This excellent and well-illustrated book can be do...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/05/12/the-clock-is-ticking-on-the-drive-for-sustainable-energy/
Entering Space – Ultimate Energy Resources? I recently read a book called ‘Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization‘, by Robert Zubrin. I’ve been covering a lot of this literat...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/03/04/entering-space-energy-resources/
Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/02/09/book-review-energy-in-australia/
For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Antidote Films/Cinem...
Last week, the Australian Academy of Science held their annual meeting in Canberra, and the final day’s event was focused on energy technology. The symposium was called “Power to the people: ...
Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a p...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2013/05/02/100pc-renew-study-needs-makeover/
There’s a gradual, but a rising tide of rational, enviro-progressive scientists out there who are committed to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Many of these problems involve tou...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2013/02/04/energy-policy-substance-wins-over-style/
I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, whi...
Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate imp...
Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, int...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/04/30/synthetic-hydrocarbons-future/
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ― Lao ...