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A new company called Skynet has made an anti-drone weapon shaped like a gun. It's really just a pair of big antennas that weigh roughly 12.5 pounds and have a range of 1.25 miles (without interference). But the anti-drone rifle can jam GPS signals to a quadcopter, and shut its camera off, causing the hovering drone to land. Read more about it here.

You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm aggressive and overly exaggerate my gait.

Attention everyone who's smugly proclaimed that they "just don't need a full night's sleep." You might have fooled us coffee-chuggers before, but now there's evidence that you're not quite superhuman.

SpaceX is grounded after a Falcon 9 rocket caught fire on the launch pad on September 1. Yet despite the fact that CEO Elon Musk has called the explosion “the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years,” SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell expects the company might resume launching rockets in November.

Eucalyptus oils from certain gum tree species could be refined to make high energy jet fuel, an ANU study has found.

South Australia electricity price falls; Infigen Energy gives up 30%; why biggest gas pipeline operator is no saint; and the big questions over Victoria renewable energy target.

I tried to get the backyard tap to work but the automatic watering system that was bolted onto it defeated me. No matter the setting I picked I could not get the water to come the fuck out. I started unscrewing the system so as to bolt the hose directly to the tap with my trembling, coordination-robbed hands, thought better of it knowing I lacked the dexterity to put it back or even connect the hose to the tap at all, then screwed it all back up and left it.I felt utterly useless. I started crying in the kitchen because I couldn't do a basic task and shouted I was useless.

Redflow says first ZCell residential battery storage systems to be delivered to customers next month after first shipment of batteries arrived in Australia on Sunday.

Tesla wins contract to install 20MW/80MWh Powerpack for Southern California Edison Mira Loma Substation.

By Bob Rafto Dear Pauline, You have been derided on social media and in the mainstream media as a fact-free redneck from Queensland on just about everything you espouse. However, I ask that you could just take a little time and consider what I feel, as you ask of others to consider how you feel.…

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University of Queensland to add 200kW RedFlow zinc bromine battery to its world-leading solar research facility to test how it helps renewables interact with the grid.

University of Queensland to add 200kW RedFlow zinc bromine battery to its world-leading solar research facility to test how it helps renewables interact with grid.

As one contemplates the rise in anti-immigration parties in Europe, and the fraught politics of immigration in the US, it is very striking how little political angst Australia’s very high level of immigration has caused. True, the nationalist One Nation Party recently scored 4 Senators in the 2016 Federal Election, but that was on 4.3% of the national vote.