Guest Post by John Morgan. John is Chief Scientist at a Sydney startup developing smart grid and grid scale energy storage technologies. You can follow John on twitter at @JohnDPMorgan. A lo...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/11/08/the-capacity-factor-of-wind/
This is Part II of the “Sustaining the Wind” series of essays by David Jones. For Part I, click here. At the conclusion of part 1 of this series, we saw that the putative demand for the eleme...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/08/17/sustaining-the-wind-part-2-indium-and-beyond/
What follows on this blog over the next few weeks will be a series of five important essays on sustainable energy, by David Jones (who also blogs as NNadir on Daily Kos, bio here). A previous art...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/27/sustaining-the-wind-p1/
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. Many nuclear supporters tend to shy away from ov...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/06/01/solar-impulse-and-other-comedies/
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/2015/04/14/is-renewable-energy-looking-like-a-new-religion/
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. The Climate Council has a new report out. The Gl...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/04/09/tunnel-vision-at-the-climate-council/
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. My previous BNC post started with a story about ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/03/05/a-path-to-energy-nirvana-or-just-a-circuitous-detour/
The biofuel roll out is worse than just too slow...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/02/07/satnavs-biofuel-and-climate-change/
This is an article by me and Corey Bradshaw, published today in The Conversation. I’m republishing it here. Should nuclear energy be part of Australia’s (and many other countries’) future e...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/12/16/its-time-for-environmentalists-to-give-nuclear-a-fair-go/
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/
he exact mix of nuclear with renewable energy will be for individual countries to decide. China clearly sees a great advantage in using significantly more nuclear in the future to reduce its use ...
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/
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/
On Monday 7 July 2014, the usually hard-hitting investigative current affairs program “Four Corners” (Australian Broadcasting Commission) showed “Power to the People“. Here was the tagli...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/07/10/four-corners-and-its-field-of-dreams/
Below is a new, detailed critique by Dr Ted Trainer of the simulation studies by Elliston, Diesendorf and MacGill on how eastern Australia might be run off 100% renewable energy. The summar...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/06/02/critique-100pc-renewables-edm/
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/
It’s been quite a while since my last BNC update! My excuse is a heavy travel schedule – first to Moscow to help decide the winner of this year’s Global Energy Prize (see here) as part of t...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/04/14/ipcc-double-standards-on-energy-barriers/
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/
Graham Palmer, a regular BNC community member, has published a new book. It is titled “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” and is published by Springer (...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/01/28/energy-in-australia-book/