Optimistic Storm

Climate change is routinely framed as a future problem — something our grandchildren will deal with, a cost we’ll worry about once we’ve sorted out the economy.

Anti-electrification arguments circulate on social media, in policy debates, and in community meetings so use this rebutting the anti-electrification playbook.

Carbon Brief report that sale of EVs exceeded ICE cars in Europe for 2025.

Electric trucking in Australia is well overdue for a radical change, and the Middle Eastern conflict (2026) makes this a priority.

BYD just destroyed any remaining argument against electric vehicle adoption, launching a million kilometre battery.

Each year the Everything Electric UK 2025 is held at Farnborough in UK, and vendors release new EVs or home electricity products.

Deep-sea mining is a proposed industry that aims to extract valuable minerals from the ocean floor.

Actor Network Theory (ANT) by Bruno Latour offers a radical departure from traditional approaches to understanding scientific and technological phenomena.

Recycling solar panels detailed assessment shows most recognise that a fully circular process is needed to avoid waste.

Recycling solar panels as the number of PV expands and panel life increases is an area of progress.

What is the carbon intensity of hydrogen for the various colours of hydrogen?

Geothermal energy, although currently contributing less than 1% to global energy production, has the potential to supply 140 times the world’s energy demand and project innerspace geothermal is looking to be part of the energy change.

Australia has some fuel and labour truck costs, revised from 2012 to 2021.

In a previous post, we looked at EV trucks and saw that progress was slow but globally, reports are that EV Truck uptake surges.The number of trucks in China has increased by ten times driven by a scrappage program.

Many fossil fuel advocates fail to recognise renewable energy reclaim back sovereignty when fossil fuel is gone.

Inertia in electricity grids is a term used in electricity grids describing the behaviour of voltage.

A common argument against hydrogen is that hydrogen is a greenhouse gas directly and indirectly and so it it worthwhile to understand the exact process and pros and cons of using H2 as part of the solution for zero emissions.

Over the past few years, the lethal humidity crisis has become real.

In an interview by Cleaning Up with Fortescue’s Dr Andrew Forrest we get a perspective of where the development of green hydrogen progress and challenges are.

With genealogy in vogue with multiple TV series on ancestors and getting involved in creating some family trees, I asked a number of people to give me their preferred genealogy software as the online systems lacked flexibility and reports.

Wartsilar, better known for shipping engines released a white paper modelling 97% or 100% for net zero by 2050,[1] in January 2025 and not long after RethinkX and Prof Tony Seba release their latest modelling on abundant energy [2] where they say that 100%

The latest report from The Australian Institute [1] shows Queensland Gas companies pay zero tax.

Australia needs to follow Germany’s example and regulate a renters balcony solar battery policy.

A recent report from Carbon Majors shows just 20 companies create 40 percent of emissions globally.

Building a battery future is a simple, cost-effective solution to rapidly decarbonise Australia’s electricity network.

This article looks at Tarong Nuclear and Accident impacts because a nuclear policy was released by the Liberal/National Coalition Party with a plant at Tarong coal power stations, co-located 26km southeast of Kingaroy.

Angry Green Energy commentator Assaad Razzouk spells out why the US leaving the climate talks is good and not bad in his latest Podcast 89 [1].

Does low dose radiation from nuclear accidents create long-term thyroid cancer risk?

BYD autonomous vehicles are coming.

The concept of cars driving themselves, saving lives and enabling personalised transport has been in development since the 1970’s, but recently it’s obvious that AI accelerates autonomous driving solutions.