In a recent article in Smart Company , Holly Bridgewater talks about how Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are on the “Hunt for investment opportunities in the mining industry“. They have already backed a technology fund called Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) and tech money is predicted to flow into mining with a focus […]
Smart Homes Face Covid-19 Challenge Too
The impact of Covid-19 on our homes is big, but it tends to miss one key question……how well they’re handling the internet. Most articles look at how well the internet is dealing with the explosion in demand as we work, school, shop, access telemedicine & entertain ourselves online at home. Download speeds dropped 38% in […]
Everything’s Coming Up Smarter (or will be soon)
I just saw that global miner, Anglo American, is about to develop the world’s biggest electric haul truck. They’ve turned to a U.S. engineering company to develop its new ‘Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle’, set to be the world’s largest hydrogen powered mine truck. The truck is part of Anglo’s FutureSmart Mining, which applies innovative thinking […]
Can Aussie Electric Cars Turn Corner?
Electric car sales have more than tripled in Australia in the past year, with 6718 electric cars-including hybrid plug-ins-sold nationwide. The new figures are from the Electric Vehicle Council-of which I’m a member-showing electric buying up three fold from 2216 in 2018. Australia still trails the world of course, with the plug-in market only 0.6% […]
Bushfires!
As the smoky haze lifts from Sydney we’re all left wondering what just happened, what’s still to come and what should we be doing to change things. As the world watches in horror Australia is being ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades. Huge swathes of the country have been burnt, people have lost […]
An Electric Car In Every Home!
The International Code Council-or ICC-in the U.S. just changed their building standards so that every home should be wired for at least one electric car. That’s potentially a big deal. Homes in the U.S. generally do very little wiring to the garage and its much the same here in Australia. The ICC based its decision […]
You Can’t Live Without Mining
That may be very true, but the general public still doesn’t quite believe it. We saw that at play in Melbourne & Perth recently at international mining conferences. Climate change protesters clashed with police in both cities, with one saying “our aim is to shut down the conference”. Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan responded by […]
Upping AI At Copper Mines
As I’ve said before, mining has not been known for digital innovation. That’s changing I’m glad to say. Here in Australia the copper industry has just started a Technology Roadmap aimed at championing technologies to make mining smarter, greener, safer & more productive. But individual companies all around the world are also taking high tech […]
Calling All Registered Cablers!
The NBN Co—the company managing the roll out of the broadband network nationally-has just given cablers a great business opportunity. A Registered Cabler can now move the nbn™ Cable and Equipment under the recently released Authority to Alter Facilities in Residential and Small Business Premises. That’s a major opening for cablers to do more on the […]
Can We Export Our Clean Energy?
When I heard last year about a plan to send solar energy from the Northern Territory to Singapore I thought it was a pipe dream. I wasn’t alone. The plan by Singapore’s Sun Cable involved building the world’s biggest solar farm in Tennant Creek to export 3 gigawatts of power via a 3,800-kilometre cable to […]
Mining The Future
We all know the future is digital but so far that hasn’t meant as much for miners. That’s about to change. A new Australian report called Staying Ahead of the Game says advanced analytics and robotics in the resources sector will add $74B to the economy by 2030 and create 80,000 new jobs. The study shows how […]
Clean Energy Needs Good Policy
A new study of Australia’s clean energy sector says investment committed so far this year has slumped to 2016 levels. That’s a problem. The Clean Energy Council report warns 2 years of record breaking solar & wind growth is now in danger of falling off the cliff. This would buck world trends if it continues. […]
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