Mozambique has long standing energy challenges and widespread energy poverty. To change this, particularly for people living in rural areas, it needs to democratise the way it supplies energy.
Solar energy is key to development in African countires.
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Integrated research is key to sustainable development, which helps Africa resolve its energy woes.
Low carbon choices such as solar power are essential for the African continent, if it intends to stop the harmful global warming effects.
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Solar hot water is an excellent way to heat up without adding to your electricity bill. Unfortunately, it seems Australians are not getting the most from their solar hot water systems.
Australia has some catching up to do to match the rest of the world on large-scale solar.
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Given existing technologies, expanding access to electricity almost always increases CO2 emissions. There are real trade-offs between addressing poverty and climate change.
Is the price right for installing solar panels?
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Labor’s proposal for 50% renewables demonstrates in spades how poisonous climate change politics has trumped good policy.
Packing heat: concentrating sunlight into a reactor to split H2O and CO2 – a step toward making liquid fuels.
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Rooftop solar power is exploding in the US but some scientists are pursuing a radically different route in renewable energy: storing solar energy as a liquid fuel.
Hepburn Wind in Victoria is Australia’s largest community renewable energy project.
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Nicky Ison, University of Technology Sydney et Ed Langham, University of Technology Sydney
Australia, like much of the rest of the world, is in the midst of an energy transition, driven by falling demand and uptake of renewables. Community energy is one way we can mange this transition to the benefit of all Australians.