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/
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/
SA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission – update Today the Expert Advisory Committee of the South Australian Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle was announced. The members include Dr Ti...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/04/17/sa-nuclear-fuel-cycle-royal-commission-update/
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 Alex Coram. Alex is Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Western Australia and a visiting professor at Robert Gordon University and the University of Massachusetts. He mostl...
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/
This is a piece written by me (Barry Brook) and my Ph.D. student, Ben Heard, as part of the “Nuclear Debate” series on the New Matilda news/opinion site. The original article can be read her...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2015/02/25/the-argument-for-nuclear-energy-in-australia/
This is an article by Ben Heard and me, published today in The Conversation. I’m republishing it here. South Australian premier Jay Weatherill on Sunday announced a formal inquiry into the futu...
South Australia announces Royal Commission into Nuclear Energy We are, at last making real progress. As Ben Heard explains on DecarboniseSA, the Premier of the state of South Australia has announ...
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 ...
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/
Mark Horstman travels to Fukushima Prefecture in Japan to investigate where the radioactive fallout has travelled since the Daichi nuclear power plant accident over three years ago. This was the ...
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/
The following article by Ben Heard and me was published on The Conversation today. This is a repost on BNC. Nuclear waste is safe to store in our suburbs, not just the bush Right now, radioactiv...
https://bravenewclimate.com/2014/06/25/where-do-you-want-nuclear-waste/
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/