By Dylan McConnell, UNSW Sydney Coal will no longer be burned for power in Australia within 14 years. To replace it will require faster deployment of solar and wind, storage, new transmission lines and some firming gas capacity. That’s a very brief summary of a large and influential document – the Integrated System Plan issued by…
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Industrial technology developer Calix has announced that its licensee, US company Heirloom, will utilise the company’s decarbonisation technologies in the construction of two direct air carbon capture facilities. Heirloom has announced they will build co-located direct air capture (DAC) facilities in Shreveport, Louisiana capable of removing 320,000 tons of CO2 per year. Heirloom has licensed…
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The Queensland government has awarded tenders for six petroleum and gas exploration areas across Bowen and Surat basins. However, despite continuing shortages of gas and price escalations faced by industry, only one is earmarked for domestic gas supply. Gas exports have been under heavy attack in recent months with revelations by the Australia Institute that…
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Performance Audit into Defence’s Management of Contracts for the Supply of Munitions – a statement in response from Air Marshal Leon Phillips, Chief of Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Group. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has completed the first of two performance audits into Defence’s procurement process to establish the Strategic Domestic Munitions Manufacturing…
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AnteoTech engages with EV manufacturers to incorporate its anode materials Clean energy technology company AnteoTech is now engaged at different levels with the majority of European EV manufacturers as they seek to incorporate higher performing anodes in their vehicle batteries. At the recent The Battery Show, in Stuttgart, Germany the company continued to move towards…
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The new ARC Research Hub in the Internet of Things for Water is one of seven new research hubs funded by the Australian Research Council, with Queensland University of Technology announcing the new hub’s leadership team on Tuesday. The effort is led by director Yang Liu, a Professor and Chair of Sustainable Water Technologies at…
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French technology consultancy Capgemini has announced that it will acquire product design and development specialist Design + Industry (D+I.) In a short statement on Tuesday morning (Sydney time), Capgemini said the acquisition will improve its offerings within Australia, “notably in the development and delivery of products from initial concepts through to production.” The size of…
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By Dr John Howard The Acton Institute for Policy Research and Innovation’s latest study examines the institutional settings for research systems in Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, South Korea, the UK, and the USA, focusing on their interaction with innovation ecosystems and with the broader innovation ecosystem. The report finds that Australia’s research system is heavily…
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Quantum computing processor developer Diraq has announced an additional $7 million USD in Series A funding, bringing the total round funding raised to $22 million. The company attracted further investment from strategic investors including Main Sequence, Taronga Ventures, Uniseed and UniSuper, Co:Act Capital as funding from foundation shareholder and research partner, UNSW, Sydney. Diraq’s Series…
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Carbon fibre nanotube concrete additive manufacturer Eden Innovations is restructuring its US business and selling properties to set itself up for renewed growth. The company, dual listed on the ASX in Australia and the NASDAQ in the United States, is little known in Australia but well known in the US where its concrete additive products…
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