ANSTO nuclear scientists and Lithium Australia Limited have developed a novel technology to extract more lithium from lithium mining waste, in a development said to be a game-changer for Australian’s lithium industry. Lithium demand is being driven by the lithium-ion battery market with Australia supplying 60 per cent of the world’s lithium in the form…
By Tina Soliman Hunter, Macquarie University and Madeline Taylor, Macquarie University You can thank Margaret Thatcher for the gas supply crunch Australia’s east coast has been plunged into. As UK prime minister, Thatcher led the charge to kick the government out of the economy and allow the market to rule. In Australia, governments took up…
Genetic Technologies (GTG), a Melbourne company whose technology predicts the likelihood of serious disease, has received validation of the benefits of its gene Type Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Test. The company, a leader in geonomics-based tests, announced the completion of a customisable Budget Impact Model (Bim) which ‘demonstrates significant health and economic benefits directly attributed…
Construction has begun on a new deep space antenna at New Norcia, Western Australia, as part of a multi-million dollar collaboration between the Australian Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The agencies will work together to expand the New Norcia deep space tracking station (pictured), located about 130 kilometres north-east of Perth. The…
The giant Silicon Aurora renewable energy park planned for the upper Spencer Gulf area of South Australia may yet live to emerge as a showcase of cutting edge Australian solar generation and energy storage technologies. The delayed, then sold off, then cut in size and scope project to a Stage 1, 140MW battery project got…
The Queensland government has announced a further $35.5 million in funding for the $80 million Translational Manufacturing facility, citing the need to commercialise more medical breakthroughs and strengthen sovereign manufacturing.
Micro-X expands US distribution network Cold cathode x-ray machine business Micro-X has announced the appointment of its second major distributor in the United States, gaining more than 100 sub-distributors, it said on Tuesday. Medlink Imaging has committed to acquiring $AUD 1 million of Micro-X’s Rover systems in the first year of the agreement to support…
By Joel Gilmore, Griffith University and Tim Nelson, Griffith University Australia’s energy market operator has just suspended the National Electricity market. That means instead of the price for wholesale electricity being set competitively, the market operator (AEMO) sets fixed prices and will take a greater role in directing which power stations generate energy and when.…
A pair of geopolymer and fibre composite bridges in Geelong has earned three awards and a commendation at the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia Victorian Division awards.
I am pleased to say that Australia might be edging towards what has always been the best choice for our next fleet of submarines – a son of Collins design substantially designed and built locally. The new federal government maintains its support for the 18 month study that is underway into the option of buying…
