Renewable energy investment dried up under Tony Abbott’s prime ministership, as he made his antipathy to the industry clear. But Malcolm Turnbull has to do to revive the sector is call a simple truce.
Articles on Wind farms
Displaying 61 - 80 of 92 articles
Imagine a wind turbine, but underwater, not fixed to the seabed, and able to work 24/7.
Internoise is the world’s premier research conference for acousticians. The 2015 meeting is being held right now in San Francisco. Buried among the hundreds of papers is one that you could easily take…
Broadcaster Alan Jones told the Q&A audience this week that coal fired power costs about $79 a kilowatt-hour, while wind power is about $1502 a-kilowatt hour. Is that right?
The Australian newspaper’s campaign against wind farms continued this morning with a page one story from the paper’s environment editor Graham Lloyd.
The confirmation by Trade Minister Andrew Robb that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has been ordered to cease future investments in wind power is a major setback to renewable energy, investment…
Wind farms are responsible for a large number of bird deaths. Finding a way to ensure that they can co-exist is vital.
“More research needed” is a familiar cry in science. But in the case of the Senate’s call for yet more scrutiny of wind farms, there are signs that experts are being ushered in a preconceived direction.
Tough Tory manifesto commitments and hatred of wind farms from the right will make it hard for the new government to meet its EU renewables commitments. Scotland might be able to help.
Coal closures announced this week in South Australia will cause employment pain, but could also help pave the way for the state to go 100% renewable - something that modelling suggests is eminently possible.
People are complaining of a range of health related problems and are attributing them to wind turbines. The question is: what is the cause of these health problems?
Consumers of wind power pay twice: first via their monthly electricity bill and a second time as taxpayers to finance billions of dollars in subsidies.
The out-going head of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Warwick Anderson confirmed in Senate Estimates recently that calls for research proposals for up to a total of A$2.5 million…
Yesterday, The Australian ran a front-page article about what it called a “groundbreaking” new study on wind turbines and their associated health impacts. The study supposedly found a trend between participants…
Congress passed the wind production tax credit (PTC) more than two decades ago to spur development in an industry still in its infancy. The wind sector has since matured into adulthood, prompting thousands…
There is no shortage of shouting and dire warnings about the state of the climate and our need to phase out fossil fuels. But there is a more silent revolution happening too — in micropower. Small-scale…
Less than a week out from Victoria’s state election, both major parties have been largely silent on environmental policy. Neither the Coalition nor Labor has released comprehensive documents. It also seems…
The political outlook for renewable energy is not great – and I’m not just talking about the view out of Joe Hockey’s car window. The Renewable Energy Target (RET), which aims to deliver 41 million megawatt-hours…
We now know that Treasurer Joe Hockey is not a fan of wind farms, on aesthetic grounds at least. On Friday he told Macquarie Radio’s Alan Jones he finds the view “utterly offensive” and “a blight on the…
Both the Scottish and UK governments have published new contributions on the energy and independence debate in recent days. Energy Secretary Ed Davey visited Edinburgh to coincide with the Department for…
Top contributors
-
Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
-
Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
-
Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
-
Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Professor of Political Economy, Utah State University
-
Lecturer in Environmental planning, Cardiff University
-
Reader in Energy Policy, University of Aberdeen
-
Professor, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW
-
Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW
-
Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
-
Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
-
Lecturer, Australian National University