Last week I presented at the Australian Academy of Science on ‘techno-fixes for climate change’. This talk was part of an AAS series organised by Bryan Gaensler called “Science Fiction beco...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/07/12/techno-fixes-for-climate-change/
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/
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/
Guest post by Dr Ted Trainer, University of NSW (http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/). For other critiques of the “100 Per Cent Renewables Study – Draft Modelling Outcomes” report on BNC, s...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2013/07/16/new-critique-aemo-100pc-renew/
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. Back in 2011...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2013/06/11/renewable-electricity-nirvana/
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/
The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 i...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/11/15/ewp2012-hazy-future-vision/
CSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference fo...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/11/08/csiro-energy-future-2050-tool/
I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/11/06/zco-needs-donation-to-publicise/
The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so ple...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2012/09/10/lovins-reinventing-fire-critique/
The following post, by Dan Meneley, was originally presented at the 17th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference Cancun 2010, and is reproduced here with Dan’s blessing (I plan to buy him dinner, as ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2011/04/29/nuclear-challenges-21c/
In this post, I develop a hypothetical multi-energy-supply scenario for global low-emissions electricity in ~2060. The assumed energy mix is 75 % nuclear fission and 25 % non-nuclear sources, wit...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/11/21/2060-nuclear-scenarios-p6/
In a previous post on BraveNewClimate — TCASE #The energy demand equation to 2050 — I estimated a mid-century global primary energy demand of ~1000 EJ (see here for definitions). But it may...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/11/14/2060-nuclear-scenarios-p5/
The nuclear scenario I describe here requires around 10,000 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, to replace most of our current fossil fuel use. (For further justification of this 10 TW target, read ...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/10/25/2060-nuclear-scenarios-p4/
In the previous SNE2060 post, I considered four possible scenarios for expansion of ‘Generation III’ thermal nuclear power reactors for the period 2010 to 2060. I attached no probability to t...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/10/14/2060-nuclear-scenarios-p3/
Read this for the context. The first set of scenarios looks at the possible build out of Gen II+/III/III+ thermal reactors (i.e., current and advanced water-moderated reactors: PWRs, BWRs, H...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/09/29/2060-nuclear-scenarios-p2/
Back in April 2010, I wrote a post “Nuclear century outlook – crystal ball gazing by the WNA”. It looked at an interesting study, undertaken by the World Nuclear Association, that made some...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/09/28/2060-nuclear-scenarios-p1/