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It’s been a while — well over 4 years, in fact… Time for an update? Brave New Climate is is a blog with its roots in the climate and energy problem. It was started in 2008, flourished for a...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2020/09/17/bnc-update/

Ph.D. projects now offered in the Dynamics of Eco-Evolutionary Patterns (D.E.E.P.) research group, based at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Tasmania. We study ecological an...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/07/11/ph-d-scholarships-in-ecology-conservation/

Time for a fresh open thread! (the old one being weighed down by over 1000 comments). The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothin...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/07/03/open-thread-25/

Back in February 2015, I posted on BNC about the announcement of a Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (henceforth NFCRC) in the uranium-mining state of South Australia (SA). This was fo...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/06/07/on-the-nuclear-fuel-cycle-royal-commission/

The 6th January 2015. That was the last time I posted an original contribution to Brave New Climate (BNC)  — at least something that wasn’t a re-post (e.g., from The Conversation), a guest p...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2016/05/27/bnc-3-0/

Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham recently published the book “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” (“Springer Briefs in Energy” series). The Tesla...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/05/making-sense-of-the-tesla-triumvirate-solar-batteries-and-electric-vehicles/

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. The ...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/06/05/less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts-rethinking-all-of-the-above-clean-energy/

Hot on the heels of my previous collaboration with Dr Staffan Qvist (from Uppsala University) on the implications of phasing out nuclear energy in Sweden, I’ve just had published another new ...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/05/15/potential-for-worldwide-displacement-of-fossil-fuel-electricity-by-nuclear-energy-in-three-decades-based-on-extrapolation-of-regional-deployment-data/

With Dr Staffan Qvist from Uppsala University, I’ve just had published a new open access paper in the peer-reviewed journal Energy Policy. It examines the ramifications of the announced policy ...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/05/05/environmental-and-health-impacts-of-a-policy-to-phase-out-nuclear-power-in-sweden/

Below is a highly informative presentation given by Dr John Sackett (Idaho National Laboratory, Retired) at the International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles (Paris, 2013). Jo...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/03/25/international-experience-with-fast-reactor-operation-testing/

This is an article by Ben Heard and me, published today in The Conversation. I’m republishing it here. No sooner had foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop announced that Australia should take a...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/12/04/nuclear-power-isnt-economically-feasible-in-australia-but/

Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff recently released the popular book “Greenjacked! The derailing of environmental action on climate change“. She looks a little like Noomi Rapace playing the...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/11/26/bionerd23-rescuing-rationality-from-the-suits/

Originally posted on ConservationBytes.com : Here at ConservationBytes.com, I write about pretty much anything that has anything remotely to do with biodiversity’s prospects. Whether it is som...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/10/28/human-population-size-speeding-cars-cant-stop-quickly/

Short hiatus (gone south…) Well, it’s come at last — I’m currently in the throes of my move (southwards retreat!) to Tasmania. Such is the upheaval involved in a large inter-state move (f...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/09/23/short-hiatus-gone-south/

Now for something different… I’ve always been an avid astronomy hobbyist, ever since I spent my teen years at Siding Spring Observatory — Australia’s largest professional site for optical...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/09/06/deep-space/

Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham recently published the book “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” (“Springer Briefs in Energy” series). Germany�...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/06/11/germany-energiewende-oz-critical-review/

In response to feedback, the structure of the BNC Discussion Forum on ProBoards has been greatly simplified. The revised forum looks like this: Logically (in my mind, and that of the BNC Moderato...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/06/07/bnc-discussion-forum-updates/

Well, I’m just about to hop on a plane to Russia to visit for a week — destination Moscow. This is part of my duties as a member of the International Awards Committee for the Global Energy Pr...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/04/15/off-to-russia/

I haven’t published an energy or climate-related article on BNC for almost a week, for a good reason: Yes, I am enjoying myself (but working too!). We (me, and some colleagues from University o...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/01/26/saludos-desde-mataelpino/

UPDATE 1. I have menus working now — if you look at the top-of-the-blog pages, you’ll see the ABOUT page has a pull-down menu. This can now be expanded to cover many relevant pages (that need...

https://bravenewclimate.com/2011/01/05/bnc-call-for-help/