The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has announced $947,000 in funding to Calix, supporting an investigation into the feasibility of a hydrogen direct reduced iron (DRI) plant using the Australian company’s Zero Emissions Steel Technology (ZESTY) process. According to a statement from ARENA, the funding would assist a pre-FEED and FEED (Front End Engineering and Design)…
Gilmour Space Technologies has announced the successful qualification test of its Sirius hybrid rocket engine, ahead of a planned orbital launch in the first half of 2023. The Gold Coast-based company issued a short statement on Tuesday morning – accompanied by a video of the test (reproduced below) – saying that “All engines are now…
Grants totalling $18 million have been awarded to 12 projects under round one of the federal Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships (EATP) program. The program commits $32.6 million to June 2024, with the remaining funding to be allocated in its second round. Projects supported in round one include drone deliveries for health centres, integrating a hydrogen…
By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly endorsed intervention to restrain gas and electricity prices, with only three of the 47 leading economists surveyed believing the best thing the government can do is to leave things to the market. The 47 economists surveyed are members of…
The UNSW-led Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation has been awarded $35 million in federal funding, and aims to “revolutionise carbon science” to create new carbon-based catalysts for use in renewable energy generation, carbon capture and clean chemical production. Scientia Professor Liming Dai (pictured), who is also Founding Director of the…
University of Southern Queensland is leading a bid for a ten-year Cooperative Research Centre, which would “explore the immense production possibilities of hemp”. According to a statement from USQ on Monday, core research areas would include production, health and materials streams. Supporters of a thriving industrial hemp industry in Australia point to attributes such as…
The Australian Cyber and Security Centre (ACSC) has released the Annual Cyber Threat Report 2021-22. The third annual report launched by the ACSC (part of the Australian Signals Directorate) includes the key findings: The ACSC received over 76,000 cybercrime reports, an increase of nearly 13 per cent from the previous financial year. On average one…
University of Sunshine Coast researchers have identified “hundreds of potential anti-cancer compounds” by genome analysis of 12 edible seaweeds, narrowing the search for future identification of chemicals for new products. Professor of Molecular Biology Scott Cummins and Genomics Lecturer Dr Min Zhao said that the anti-cancer benefits of seaweed were known, but it was much…
Metals manufacturer Nyrstar has celebrated its increased spending on local suppliers at Port Pirie, telling the public it had purchased $104 million worth of goods and services from regional businesses during the last financial year. In a short statement on Thursday, the company said spending through its Local Business Priority Program was up 73 per…
Industrial gases specialist BOC has officially opened its second Application Technology Centre in Australia, with federal assistant manufacturing and trade minister Tim Ayres cutting the ribbon at a new site in south-west Sydney on Wednesday, According to a statement from BOC, part of the Linde group, the facility is world-class as “will showcase state-of-the-art welding…
