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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]