Backgrounder – addressing energy & climate change
Electricity generation is the single largest contributor to global CO2 emissions (according to the ‘World Energy Council’ roughly twice as much as the other major fossil fuel burner, transportation), but also offers the greatest potential for reducing such emissions in the short and medium term…
Major innovations and advanced technologies available today can radically transform the ability of consumers and enterprises to find, produce, deliver, and use energy in a more cost-effective, resource efficient and environmentally sustainable way.
Alternative energy sources like solar, wind, hydrogen fuel cells, clean batteries, as well as mobile battery or hydrogen powered cars, will become the distributed sources of energy in the future and will require the current analog grid to become IP enabled, much like the telephone and internet industries have developed.
Smart grids or network intelligence are a way to reduce CO2 emissions and connect the distributed/clean generation sources like solar, wind and bio…
This is an alternative to coal-fired power stations AND nuclear power. The Smart Grid is real. It will work. For an honest debate on energy systems and climate change in Australia, the media here needs to start talking and writing about the Smart Grid.
Hydrogen Fuel is very promising, i only hope that we can mass produce soon enough..~”
i think that the best fuel that we can use is Hydrogen, this does not product polluting gases at all“’