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Posted on 13 Jun 2019
The energy sector has been issued a warning that it is ripe to be “Uberised” with digital technologies set to shake-up the industry. Typically criticised for being slow-to-change the Energy Industry is being pushed to implement changes similar to large world-wide companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon. Read the full article here.
Posted on 13 Jun 2019
The latest news in Robots has seen researchers teaching a robot to make breakfast. This is more important than it sounds when you consider that until now robots have been unable to coordinate two-handed movements in the same way that humans do. Researchers are working on improving Robotic two hand movements such as passing one … Continued
Posted on 13 Jun 2019
Cosmos Magazine recently published a story about new evidence linking recycled Seabed to the creation of much loved and adored diamonds. It was originally thought that the salts trapped inside diamonds did come from the ocean and seawater but at that point they couldn’t be tested. Now it is known that marine sediment which comes … Continued
Posted on 29 May 2019
Last week in Bendigo a family stumbled across a rare gold nugget worth $35,000. Where did the nugget come from? A gold-coated fungi near Boddington in Western Australia. Read the full article here.
Posted on 29 May 2019
A grant of nearly $1 million has been announced for a 100% renewable energy project which will see the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest reduce its reliance on diesel fuel to generate power. The Daintree region is a step closer to hosting an Australian-first solar to hydrogen-based microgrid. Backed by a federal government grant of $990,150, … Continued
Posted on 29 May 2019
A pilot program in South Australia will use the power of poo, also known as human biogas, to store and deliver renewable energy that is also cost efficient. This new technology will take biogas from a wastewater treatment plant then store it as latent heat in molten silicon at a temperature of 1,414 degrees Celsius. … Continued
Posted on 16 May 2019
The CSIRO has found that Australian residential homes are becoming larger in size and more energy efficient.Read the original article here.
Posted on 20 Apr 2019
The technology – which is named HERO [Hydrogen Energy Release Optimiser] – produces no pollution. It was developed by a Newcastle-based company. The team believes this technology has use for many different things, like energy and heat generation. From the research so far, a hydrogen technology shown the potential to replace coal-fired power and change … Continued
