Coal assets face rapid stranding from green tech

William P. Hall on January 26, 2022

New technologies dispatching power from sustainable long-term storage threaten to put coal-based dispatchable power stations out of business

We may be sitting on the green energy missing link – don’t tell the Coalition. Photo: TND

By Alan Kohler, 24/01/2022 in the Newdaily

Long-duration energy storage systems are writing coal’s death certificate
Australia is sprinting towards 100 per cent renewable energy, 24/7, 365 days a year, but very few are ready for it, least of all the coal industry and its subsidiary, the Morrison government.

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We shouldn’t forget – Antarctic ice is also melting

William P. Hall on January 24, 2022

Zach Labe is always a good source of graphics summarizing collections of data on our changing climate Here he shows the melting of sea ice around Antarctica. The horizontal line shows the average extent of sea ice over the era of satellite measurements (beginning in 1978). The red line shows how much smaller extent of sea ice this January so far.

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