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Compost, manure and food waste can be turned into biofertilisers made from natural materials.
It makes more sense to go solar and quit gas before getting a home battery.
People with poorly controlled asthma may be able to breathe easier by making a change in the kitchen.
Gas companies have withdrawn support for the government’s gas reservation policy. But their main critique doesn’t stack up.
Rolling out a new program to encourage electric hot water could slash household costs and cut emissions.
Energy security has been front of mind for Asia-Pacific leaders this year. Australia could play a key role in assuring supply of both gas and clean exports.
For sheer abundance and ease of production of oil and natural gas, it simply doesn’t get any better than the Persian Gulf region.
Fertilizer is more expensive and in shorter supply. Without the right amounts of fertilizer at specific times, yields drop, food prices increase and food shortages result.
Israel and Iran have both attacked critical energy infrastructure sites. So what does this mean for energy prices here in Australia, and around the world?
Two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – explore the very different histories of home heating in their countries.
Native American lands contain 30% of the nation’s coal, 50% of its uranium and 20% of its natural gas, as well as copper, lithium and rare earth elements.
Many homeowners could save money on their heating bills by installing heat pumps – but not everyone, and not everywhere.
Calling Ksi Lisims a “nation-building” project masks unresolved questions about who benefits, who bears the risks and how the project fits into a rapidly changing global liquefied natural gas market.
If Australia hits 82% renewables by the end of the decade, wholesale power should be a third cheaper.
Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.
Industry leaders have objected to reversals of long-standing policies, and market forces are moving against the Trump administration’s hopes.
To reduce emissions put into the atmosphere, Google is using carbon capture and sequestration. But not all CCS projects are the same.
A fast drop in coal use played a big role, but there was more, as these charts show.
Analysis of the air quality data available for southwest Memphis finds that pollution has long been quite bad, but the turbines powering an xAI data center have not made it much worse.
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Lecturer in International Studies, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
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Senior research associate (Resources for the Future), Lecturer (University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy), University of Michigan
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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Director, Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab, and Research Professor, New York University; Tufts University
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Josey Centennial Professor of Energy Resources, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Dean, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Energy Economics, co-coordinator of the Chaire Européenne de la Transition du Territoire, GEM
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University