Tag Archives: energy

Synergistic Technologies for Energy Futures

Posted on June 18, 2018 by

My vision for energy futures involves the emergence of synergistic technologies. Implementation in the real world can only succeed with cost competitive products. High temperature modular nuclear providing baseload electricity but also – at periods of lower demand – electricity … Continue reading →

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Adani Lawfare

Posted on October 31, 2016 by

Adani is an Indian company with a coal project in development in the Galilee basin in Central Queensland.  Serial and vexatious litigation – all actions brought over years have been lost – have delayed the project and added to costs.  … Continue reading →

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Restoring agricultural soils for profit, biodiversity and climate resilience

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement production – from 1750 to 2011 – was about 365 billion metric tonnes as carbon (GtC), with another 180 GtC from deforestation and agriculture.   Of this 545 GtC, about 240 GtC (44%) … Continue reading →

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How difficult is it to build an electric car?

Posted on July 28, 2016 by

The image below is of a chassis prototype.  It consists of some aluminium sections and a few cast components with integrated suspension supports.  Simple – light – cheap.  It is fully engineered for supercar torsional and stiffness performance – and … Continue reading →

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Safe, cheap and abundant energy – back to the nuclear energy future

Posted on June 18, 2016 by

“To provide [electricity] in today’s world, an ‘advanced reactor’ must improve over existing reactors in the following 4-core objectives.  It must produce significantly less costly, cost-competitive clean electricity, be safer, produce significantly less waste and reduce proliferation risk.  It is … Continue reading →

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Tax Carbon Pollution or Seize the Day?

Posted on October 7, 2015 by

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.  Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.  On such a full sea are we now afloat.  And … Continue reading →

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Safe, cheap and abundant energy – back to the nuclear energy future

Posted on June 6, 2015 by

High temperature, fast neutron reactors are the obvious future source of both electricity and liquid fuels.  There are many versions of small nuclear reactors operating around the world – starting with the US military in the 1950’s.    There are eight … Continue reading →

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