More propaganda from The Daily Telegraph — this time on electricity efficiency. Let’s dissect a particularly blatant example.
Electricity
Sun smart: is rooftop solar PV productive or pest?
Rooftop solar PV has boomed in the past 12 months but it is often accused of causing nothing but trouble, but the myths are unwinding, writes Giles Parkinson of Climate Spectator.
Garnaut’s ‘in for a penny, in for a quid’ approach to reform
Ross Garnaut figures if you’re undertaking a major reform you may as well do as much as possible.
Queensland: the carbon kings
New greenhouse data shows that even with the GFC and some one-off factors holding down emissions, Australia will miss its 5% carbon reduction target by 2020.
Garnaut’s power challenge to Labor
Professor Ross Garnaut’s last update is on electricity. He’s gone in looking for a carbon price, but come out with a new regulatory model for the electricity sector. And it makes sense.
Calling TRUenergy’s CPRS bluff
There is a peculiar distinction between what large polluters like TRUEnergy say in their quest for additional compensation, and what they tell key financial stakeholders like customers and shareholders.
VIDEO: Wireless electricity
“Wires suck” says electrician and innovator Eric Giler, so a team of
Frontier Economics: what is the plan?
Labor’s ETS plan helps individuals not business. The Frontier Economics carbon policy plan is complex but businesses won’t suffer the same economic loss, writes Alan Kohler.
A wall of power points
Forget scrounging on the floor and battling with a tangle of cords to plug in your heater only to find there isn’t a power point left… this is a sweet design solution.
More electricity for your buck: the rise of superconductors
Moving electricity from source to destination is inefficient — power lines can lose 14% of energy to resistance — but superconductors finally look viable. And that’s good news for the environment.
Turning poo into power
Waste not, want not — the top six ways people are converting excrement into electrity.
How electrocution really kills you
We all know not to whiz on the electric fence, but do you know why? Gizmodo and Mythbusters’ Adam Savage explain how electrocution kills you — and it isn’t what you think.
Big polluters on a roll as public picks up the energy bill
The Government’s decision to exempt the biggest electricity users from its mandatory Renewable Energy Target will cost households and energy-efficient businesses.
