A former nuclear power plant in Austria is tapping another form of nuclear energy from a reactor situated a very safe 149.6 million kilometres away – the sun.
On the night Donald Trump won the US election, one of the many jubilant supporters featured in the media coverage was 67-year-old Doug Ratliff of Richlands, Virginia. An owner of struggling shopping malls in a region hit hard by coal closures, he said Trump “gives people hope” that these ailing industries can be brought back to health.
According to estimates in a recent report, universities in Australia are now consuming almost double what they consumed a decade ago; and it’s bound to increase.
Western Australia’s government has just committed a big chunk of change to improve electricity reliability for the people of and visitors to Kalbarri – using renewable energy.