A $1 billion battery and solar farm will be built at Morgan in South Australia's Riverland by year's end in a project the proponents describe as "the world's biggest".
Economic evidence suggests that the scheme could be cheaper to run, and boost recycling more, if it was run as a lottery instead, with every recycled bottle representing a “ticket” to a prize draw.
Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia say they have compiled a short-list of potential companies for the supply of commercially viable, locally produced aviation biofuel.
Musk has offered to provide Australian government, free of charge, $25 million worth of Tesla battery packs if he can't turn around the state's chronic power shortages.
With Australia wrestling with how to secure its energy supply, we've found we can make the switch to affordable and reliable clean power" said Professor Blakers from the ANU Research School of Engineering. The answer is pumped hydro storage.
Parts of eastern and central Australia are in the midst of a horrific heatwave, with temperatures reaching as high as 46 degrees C. Alarmingly, the record-setting conditions are expected to worsen over the coming weekend.
CME Director Bruce Mountain calculated Australian homes with rooftop solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall 2.0 are cost-competitive against grid power sources.
CME Director Bruce Mountain calculated Australian homes with rooftop solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall 2.0 are cost-competitive against grid power sources.
Sundrop Farms grows tomatoes in the Australia desert using solely sunlight and seawater, which is desalinized with solar power.
If architect James Gardiner is even half right, 3D printing is about to launch a digital design revolution. Dr Gardiner believes it will transform our world like the industrial revolution did in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals – a critical step towards future elastic electronics.
The future of communications may be 5G, where mobile networks push bandwidth-heavy video to phones and pull data from self-driving cars, but some firms see an alternative - a technology called LoRa.
Near Melbourne, Australia lies an incredible suburban project underway dubbed Yarrabend. What is unique unique about this venture is that all of the houses will come standard with Tesla Powerwalls and solar panels.
Victoria's most productive wind farm generating enough power for 140,000 households will be built in the south-west. The $650 million wind farm, to be built near Dundonnell, will have 96 turbines.
Australia's third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs - and set a blueprint for the rest of the country
