Today’s article by James Fernyhough in the Financial Review ($) confirms exactly what we said last week; ‘green’ hydrogen is demonstrably too expensive and the opportunities for meaningful cost reduction are limited. Fernyhough highlights the federal government’s recent call for the private sector to come up with ways to slash the cost of renewable hydrogen… Continue Reading >

An article ($) by Aaron Patrick in today’s Financial Review asks the question: Should the government spend $500 million building a steel mill to promote technology so space-age it may never be deployed? The article is in response to a recent report by The Grattan Institute titled ‘Start with steel: A practical plan to support… Continue Reading >

Well, yes, we can. It’s called HydroMOR and it replaces expensive metallurgical coal with abundant, affordable lignite (brown coal), delivering lower emissions and, most importantly lower cost. And this combination of lower emissions and lower cost is the key to successful innovation as we attempt to shift away from the use of metallurgical coal, and… Continue Reading >

Hot on the heels of the Federal Labor party’s renewed commitment to net zero-CO2 emissions by 2050, the federal coalition government has recently announced a significant shift on climate policy; a shift they describe as ‘more gas and more tech — not taxation — as the way to support cheaper and low emission climate solutions… Continue Reading >