Archive for the 'climate change' Category
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #002 (MP3 - 10MB - 30min)
This weeks podcast is an interview with Dr. Tim Finnigan, Founder and CEO of Biopower Systems, a distributed ocean power technology company.
On the show Tim and I discuss the company’s novel approach to harnessing ocean power, including their tidal current power technology bioStream and wave power technology [...]
Posted in Podcast, alternative energy, australasia, ceo, cleantech, climate change, company, distributed energy, energy generation, environment, ocean power, sustainability, tidal, wave | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
The cost of solar PV is dropping - or will shortly according to solar PV concentrator manufacturer Soliant Energy.
Solar concentrator technologies allow the same level of light to be captured often as a traditional panel technology. However they drastically reduce the cost of the photovoltaic components by concentrating the incident sunlight onto a much smaller [...]
Posted in PV, cleantech, climate change, company, concentrator, distributed energy, energy generation, environment, photo voltaic, solar, sustainability | No Comments »
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
In case you missed it, Rupert Murdoch announced overnight that News Corporation worldwide would be carbon neutral by 2010. The Australian Newspaper has reproduced the speech in this article, and you can read it by expanding the read more button below.
Its well worth a read, and this is a particularly poignant given the [...]
Posted in General, big business, ceo, climate change, environment, industry leaders, news media, politics, sustainability | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #001 (MP3 - 17MB - 48min)
This weeks podcast is with Andrew Neilson who is the Legal and Commercial manger and Company Secretary at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL). For those of you not familiar with Ceramic Fuel Cells they are a Australian and London Stock Exchange (AIM) listed maker of solid oxide [...]
Posted in Podcast, cleantech, climate change, environment, sustainability | No Comments »
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
I’m currently reading Clive Hamilton’s new book “Scorcher - the dirty politics of climate change”. And its a real eye opener on what’s happening in Australian Politics particularly over the last 10 years of the Howard government. We all know how the Australian Government has really dragged its heals regarding action on climate [...]
Posted in CSIRO, alternative energy, cleantech, climate change, energy generation, environment, public opinion, renewable energy, research, survey, sustainability | No Comments »
Friday, April 27th, 2007
This interesting article just came across my desk. It presents research and advancements in the area of Biomass pyrolysis and char sequestration. See the story below.
Posted in alternative fuels, biomass, carbon sequestration, cleantech, climate change, energy generation, environment, research, sustainability | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
CSIRO has a key role here in Australia in the science of climate change and the development of clean technologies. In conversations that i have had with CSIRO researchers and managers they are careful to say that technologies they are developing today usually have a 5 to 15 year commercialisation timeframe.
Having said this there [...]
Posted in CSIRO, cleantech, climate change, environment, research, sustainability | No Comments »
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Hi, my name is Nick Bruse and I am excited to be your host for The Cleantech Show here on TPN! The podcasts will be starting very soon, so please subscribe to the show! You can find the RSS and iTunes subscription buttons on the right-hand sidebar of the blog or click here to subscribe [...]
Posted in General, climate change, environment, sustainability | No Comments »