Geothermal Energy from Uranium Deposits
Geothermal Energy from Uranium Deposits : MP3 : 03/07/2009 “We have a large amount of resource in a very, very enriched source. We’re ideally placed to be the world leaders really in exploitation of...
View ArticleDriving the World to a Better Place
Driving the World to a Better Place : FLV : 04/09/2009 Ending the world’s dependence on oil is becoming more and more important for both the environment and economy as we approach “peak oil”. Electric...
View ArticleCopenhagen commentary from the University of Melbourne
As the 2009 United Nations Climate Change conference gets underway in Copenhagen, see below a list of University of Melbourne experts who can comment on the issues being discussed. For more information...
View ArticleBrown coal’s role in clean energy
MATHEW MURPHY, The Age, December 22, 2009 VICTORIA’S beleaguered brown coal could, ironically, be the answer to providing clean, renewable base-load power. Academics at the University of Melbourne...
View ArticleImproving energy efficiency of internet and communications networks
The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society was founded in 2009. Finding a comprehensive solution to the problem of growing energy consumption in the Internet will require strong collaboration and...
View ArticleHiggs or Higgsless? Questions at the Large Hadron Collider
Image courtesy of CERN. Remarkably, everything you see around you is composed of just a few types of elementary particles such as the electron and quarks, which are the constituents of the atom....
View ArticlePushing for a new era in energy
The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 report was launched on July 14, detailing an exciting plan to convert the nation’s entire energy sector to renewables. A collaboration between The University of Melbourne...
View ArticleChallenges of the early 21st Century – recordings now available
The United Kingdom’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, will talk about the potential ‘perfect storm’ created by the interconnected global challenges of food security, climate change and...
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