desertec-australia.org - 1/20/2009
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DESERTEC-Australia advocates developing large-scale solar, geothermal, wind and wave energy projects in interior Australia. With a coordinated rollout of renewable energy capacity and long-distance transmission infrastructure Australia could -- sometime after 2020 -- be producing surplus, ...
feedintariff.com.au - 1/25/2009
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feedintariff.com.au —
A feed-in tariff is a premium rate paid
for electricity produced by a renewable source such as...
a grid connected rooftop solar system or wind turbine, usually over and above the market rate. National gross feed in tariff programs have been established ...
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Gross Solar Feed In Tariff Petition For Australia
solartran.com.au - 1/26/2009
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solartran.com.au —
MW output balloon engines to meet renewable energy
targets. Ian Edmonds, www.solartran.com.au Introduction In September 2007 the...
Federal Government set 30,000 GWHr as the renewable energy target for 2020. In view of the paucity of ready-to-go ...
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Balloon engine
weeklytimesnow.com.au - 1/26/2009
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weeklytimesnow.com.au —
AAP: THE enormous potential of biochar to capture
and store carbon is being overlooked by the Federal...
Government, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says. Mr Turnbull yesterday toured Crucible Carbon, which is developing technology for the mass ...
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Australia: Biochar potential overlooked: Turnbull
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Renewables & efficiency Jan 20
Energy Bulletin - —
... backbone in which efficiency, price and environmental-friendliness count. A regional grid would offer a frictionless exchange of kilowatthours akin to the frictionless exchange of electrons the Internet has brought. Stewart Taggart is a solar industry executive. He is also administrator of DESERTEC-USA and DESERTEC-Australia. DESERTEC advocates the development of large scale solar power capacity in desert regions. (1X January 2009) Apparently a selection from a larger report at DESERTEC . ("Australia advocates developing large-scale solar, geothermal, wind and wave energy ...
Solar power's steep 'learning curve'
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... Carbon pricing. This is smart and economically rational. it will allow the market to solve the problem by laying bare the relative environmental costs of various technologies, and then letting the market do the rest. Given that huge amounts of electricity generating capacity must be replaced in the next 30-40 years, the world has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity get things right. Solar is the best bet. The numbers clearly say so. Editor's Note: This opinion was provided by DESERTEC-Australia , please click ...
Energy heavies back geothermal sources
Peak Energy —
The Australian's Green Chips column this week references almost the full gamut of large scale Australian clean energy proposals - central Australian geothermal power, Desertec's solar thermal power proposal, and Wilson Tuckey's tidal power plan for the Kimberly - Energy heavies back geothermal sources. ENERGY giants Origin and AGL have been busy beefing up their wind-farm portfolios in recent months in preparation for the upgraded Renewal Energy Target -- should it make its way through parliament. But perhaps the most revealing ...
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