Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
Imagine the day when you’ll unroll or unfold your smartphone to answer it. If things go to plan, this day may be sooner than you think.
Leabrook brewery site lives on through barley variety
Coopers’ original brewery site has been honoured through a new barley variety tipped to become the South Australian brewers malt of choice.
Profiles of success: the Brisbane company charging ahead in the race to power tomorrow’s cars
Electric cars sometimes get described as “batteries on wheels”. A charged 60 kW vehicle could power a home, including its air-conditioning, for four or five days. The possibilities of “bidirectional charging” through vehicles are being taken seriously by Japanese automakers, and widespread adoption of EVs could eventually – and drastically – change the ways people use and buy electricity.
Canada’s BRP buys local boat builder
Canadian conglomerate BRP has purchased 80 pert cent of the shares in leading Australian aluminium leisure craft and trailer builder, Telwater Pty Ltd. BRP Marine, which owns the Evinrude, Alumacraft and Manitou brands, will increase its global reach by buying Australia’s number one builder of aluminum boats from owner, Paul Phelan. Phelan, Telwater’s managing director,…
Biogas energy storage system launches at wastewater plant
A commercial thermal energy storage system that converts biogas from a wastewater treatment plant has begun operating in South Australia.
Hydrogen infographic – a big bang or fuel for the future?
It all started with a bang…the big bang! The explosive power of hydrogen fueled a chain reaction that led to the Universe we have today. Now this power is being deployed on Earth to supply the energy needs of tomorrow. For Australia, solar powered splitting of water into hydrogen, and exporting it to Asia in…
IoT ideas: get them to market while they’re hot
The number of situations where Internet of Things solutions can do something useful is growing fast, as is the market for such solutions.
There’s gold in them there hills of food waste
Wasted food statistics can make for depressing reading. According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, a third of all food worldwide – totalling 1.3 gigatonnes – is squandered annually. In Australia it’s estimated we waste $20 billion worth of food a year.
From tyranny of distance to centre of the global economy
For a century Australian businesses bemoaned the tyranny of distance that left us with poor prospects far from the world’s biggest markets. Today’s chart, from Visual Capitalist, brings home with a vengeance the newfound power of our location in the thick of the world’s fastest growing economies. In answers any questions you may have about…
Seed Terminator enters full production
Manufacturing of a machine that pulverises weed seeds as grain crops are harvested is ramping up to a full commercial launch. Adelaide-based company Seed Terminator will produce 100 of its machines ahead of this year’s Australian grain harvest, which begins in October.