It may be possible to transform carbon dioxide into green fuel by shining sunlight onto copper atoms says new research. Carbon dioxide is the greatest contributor to global warming, but if a little sunshine exposed to CO2 and water can produce a fuel and chemical precursor the world’s energy “problems” would be solved the researchers […]
Seeking Solar
It was a great week for Australian solar I’m glad to say. Not only did the Government launch a bid to boost manufacturing, but copper solar company SunDrive announced a new plant in NSW. The Australian Government’s $1B Solar SunShot pledge was big news. It promises to not only supersize solar manufacturing here, but ensure […]
Cutting Emissions Key Step To Net Zero Copper Mines
A new report lays out the steps that copper mines will need to take on ventilation and emissions reporting if they are to reach the goal of net zero mining. Ventilation and Emission Reporting is the fifth roadmap to explore pathways to low emission copper mining following the earlier Roadmap, Water, Materials Movement, and Mineral […]
Discovering Copper Gets Critical
Australia hasn’t had a major copper discovery in over a decade, but growing global demand suggests we need to rapidly fast track exploration. The last big copper discovery in Australia was by Sandfire at DeGrussa in Western Australia in 2009. And while a spectacular high grade find at the time, it only lasted till last […]
NBN Redux?
There’s both good and bad news when it comes to the NBN, but over twenty years since launch its future is still a hotly debated topic around the country. There’s definitely a lot of good NBN news these days. A new study commissioned by NBN Co found faster broadband is set to deliver a $400B […]
Banking Solar
Net Zero are definitely the buzz words these days and while industry pursues that goal it’s also on the agenda of homeowners. And battery storage is key. It’s part of what is now known as Battery Energy Storage Systems or BESS, and one application helps store power generated from clean energy like solar photovoltaic or […]
Has Green Fatigue Set In?
A new study says two thirds of consumers know how to make sustainable energy choices, but won’t spend the time or money to do it. Really? The snapshot from Ernst Young (EY) calls this “consumer fatigue”. They found households—and they asked 100K of them—are keen on clean energy and know quite a bit about it, […]
Clean Energy For Big Copper Mine
Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is investing $99M to boost a South Australia wind farm to provide clean energy to BHP’s Olympic Dam copper mine. Olympic Dam, located 550 km north-northwest of Adelaide, has one of the largest copper deposits in the world. The Neoen Goyder South Stage 1 Wind Farm will generate 203 MW […]
Tipping Point On Electric Cars?
I like starting the year with some good news and the fact that Australia’s electric vehicle sales jumped last year was just that. A record 1.21M new cars were sold in Australia in 2023, breaking the previous high of 1.18M set in 2017, with battery EVs 7.2% of the total—up from 3.2% in 2022—and hybrid […]
Rewiring Australia For Clean Energy
A new report from Powerlink Queensland looks at the challenges of expanding Australia’s grid for renewable energy, and the trade-offs between overhead & underground transmission lines. At least $21.4T needs to be invested in electricity grids worldwide by 2050 to support a net-zero trajectory. Australia has set a goal of more than 80% of electricity […]
The Big Australian Mining
A new report from BHP this week called Recapturing Australia’s Competitiveness is a timely reminder of how important Australian mining is to our future given the challenges of climate change. Meeting our net zero goals will “only be possible through the scaling up of mineral production”. BHP says that may mean creating up to 140 […]
Copper Powers Data Centres
Copper Powers Data Centres A new infographic from the Copper Development Center in the U.S. shows at a glance how crucial Copper is to the growing role of Data Centres in modern economies, one that is only going to get bigger. Data centres are computer server hubs that collect, store and process large amounts of […]
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