Concrete walls may soon store your home’s electricity
Because the system uses widely available elements like cement and carbon, it avoids reliance on mined metals such as lithium and cobalt.
Despairing about climate change? These charts on the unstoppable growth of solar energy may change your mind
Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history. How fast? Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050.
Australia’s EV fleet doubled last year. Can the power grid handle the strain?
We estimate each vehicle uses just under 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day. That’s about 40 per cent of the daily use of a four-person house in Queensland.
How the Albanese government can turn Australia into a renewable energy superpower
The government aims for renewable energy to make up more than 80 per cent of Australia’s electricity mix by 2030, but its pledge of $20 billion for new transmission infrastructure means we can aim higher and go faster.
Toilet taboo: we need to stop being squeamish about recycling human waste
This has left many without toilets that can contain and treat waste safely or use large amounts of water to flush waste to energy-intensive
3 simple life hacks to help fight climate change
Three spheres of our lives contribute about 85 per cent of a household’s carbon footprint: home energy use, transport, and food consumption.
