Value Collector
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Another good argument for increasing the ratio of electric vehicles in the national transport fleet.
Another example of government negligence and "market" politics.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-07/australia-has-limited-emergency-fuel-stocks-left/9734164
Another good argument for increasing the ratio of electric vehicles in the national transport fleet.
Hopefully the fact that a few people in the military have started publicly speaking out on this one will be sufficient to put enough pressure on government to do something.Another example of government negligence and "market" politics.
My own view is very firmly that we ought to maintain the 90 days' stockpile that we are bound by international agreement to do and should not be looking for ways to cheat (like a former PM arguing that coal in the ground should be counted the same as petrol or diesel in storage tanks - yes seriously!).
together.
If they are going to legislate that private energy companies need to hold 90days of stock, that is a whole lot of capital, they would probably need to be paid at least 4% on that capital to make it worth while for them.
It's a national security issue and companies should be expected to tow the line regardless of whether there is anything in it for them.
It’s 90 days of net imports “business as usual”.
EVERY other OECD country already does it and so do most others so it’s no big deal in that sense. Plus we agreed 40 years ago that we’d do it too and until a few years ago we did so.
The actual means could be either privately owned or a government owned stockpile. Other countries use both approaches although private is the more common way.
So how about a simple, cheap way to produce endless non polluting Hydrogen as a fuel ? Can we just do it ?
Exeter electrode harvests hydrogen by splitting water with light
30th April 2018 10:48 am
A team from Exeter University has made a significant hydrogen energy breakthrough, developing an electrode that splits water using only light.
The photo-electrode, made from nanoparticles of lanthanum, iron and oxygen, absorbs light before initialising electrochemical transformations to extract the hydrogen from water (H20). According to the Exeter team, the LaFeO3 device is not only cheap to produce but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass use. Hydrogen energy produced using the photo-electrode would be free from carbon emissions and virtually limitless. The work is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
“We have shown that our LaFeO3 photo-electrode has ideal band alignments needed to split water into its constituents (H2 and O2) spontaneously, without the need of an external bias,” said lead author Govinder Pawar, who works at the university’s Environment and Sustainability Institute in Cornwall.
“Moreover, our material has excellent stability where after 21 hours of testing it does not degrade, ideal for water splitting purpose. We are currently working on further improving our material to make it more efficient to produce more hydrogen.”
Water splitting was first demonstrated by Fujishima and Honda using a titanium dioxide electrode. Since then, scientists have been on the hunt for the ideal material to perform the task. While many semiconductor materials have been found to be capable, none have been both abundant enough and functional in the visible part of the light spectrum to be considered practical for mass industrial use.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/exeter-electrode-harvests-hydogen/
The momentum toward hydrogen is ever increasing, as it is the answer, to clean fuel.
https://thewest.com.au/business/energy/woodside-eyes-hydrogen-supply-for-japan-ng-b88836800z
Trying to keep the competition for it's Solar and Wind generators out???
More pumped hydro coming.
The feasibility study is important in developing decisions on the interconnector," Mr Frydneberg said, when asked about possible funding sources.
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