I wrote an article about battery developments in China, and in that article related our first out of town trip in our EV1. In that article, I referred to a Substack article which detailed more about the solid state battery developments in China. That same Substack article also referred to a bridge built in Guizhou, one of the poorer provinces of China2.
As widely expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 4.25%—a back-to-back increase. The decision was a close call, with five members voting to increase the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 4.10% and four members voting to leave the cash rate target
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Publicly-owned gentailer completes final concrete turbine foundation at what is the state's first new wind farm development in several years.
The real anathema in the modern Australian economy is not renewable energy, but the idea that our prosperity depends on shipping prehistoric hydrocarbons halfway around the planet.
What will it take for regional communities to move from hosting renewable projects to sharing in their long-term value?
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