Australia stopped keeping detailed data on its vehicle fleet after the domestic car industry ended. That’s becoming an issue.
- Adjunct Professor in Sustainability, The University of Western Australia
Australia could direct revenue towards electrification, not further diesel consumption.
Analysts forecast China’s clean exports would plunge. But demand has surged to new heights after the Iran war
With the same fiscal support that Canberra found to back the oil industry, we could start to end our oil dependence.
The government’s response to the fuel crisis has been to reassure us normality will resume. Amid global uncertainty, that’s not enough.
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.
In our Conversation article, King Coal dethroned, we suggested that renewable energy investment was now outstripping fossil fuel power investment. Many welcomed the news that the future was arriving sooner…
“King coal still reigns” was the headline emblazoned across a full page article in The Weekend Australian on the 28-29 April 2012, by Environment Editor Graham Lloyd. The article’s subtitle was, “The world…
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