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It's astonishing CEOs of major emitters still don't take emissions to heart. Not just seriously, but to heart. Science and the observable reality is that climate change is a big deal.

The energy industry has assumed consumers manage their energy use like ‘mini-economists’ or ‘mini-engineers.’ Digital sociologist Professor Yolande Strengers says this is wrong.

Fully Charged's Robert Llewellyn on Chinese EVs that make a lot of beeping noises, Elon Musk, and what to expect at Everything Electric.

Alaric DeArment wrote an article in The New Republic in early 2023, where he noted that Americans from marginalised communities were looking to leave because of a rise in gun violence and far right (read Trump’s MAGA horde) politics. He wrote this article not long after he applied for German citizenship through his mother’s side of the family1.

Move along citizen, nothing to see here. Just a fucking cyclone about to slide sideways into my word cave. Probably on Thursday.

I do like the reserved tone of my weather here.

The team behind Victoria's first four-hour battery says costs are coming down as technology improves. For pumped hydro, it is not so easy.

This is how catastrophic the East Coast gas cartel will become if left to its own devices. Competition cop Gina Cass-Gottlieb has picked a fight with Australia’s top energy companies over data she says shows they are planning to increasingly use gas produced for domestic purposes to meet commitments to foreign buyers. Queensland’s three major

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First term of the Albanese government fails to deliver a promised transformation in Australia's climate efforts. New government data shows just how bad the failures are.

A very busy end of month session on Friday night saw a drop in US consumer spending but Wall Street played the short covering game while Chinese volatility spiked earlier in the session, causing European shares to make no advances. The USD is coming back against the undollars with new daily lows in Euro due

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CoreLogic’s results for February show that Melbourne is now the cheapest major capital city housing market in the nation. Melbourne’s median dwelling value was $772,561 at the end of February 2024, $124,052 (14%) below the national capital city median. The improved affordability of Melbourne’s housing market follows subdued growth over the past five years. As

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