with or obtain credit from any reputable international bank, nor can it easily insure its ships or find energy ... (Iran, Iran nuclear program, Iran politics, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-16 13:51 - 0 comments

heading back to the Lodge to stockpile all of the food and cans of Coke for the inevitable nuclear ... always surrounded himself with youth, for its energy and brainpower, and the joint was jumping ...

The Monthly - Rhys Muldoon - 2012-03-01 10:51 - 12 comments - 0 attachments

Washington has negotiated a special civil nuclear agreement with New Delhi, effectively making India a deal outside the global agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Whereas India once cut a lonely ... of a nuclear weapon in the Rajasthani desert came just after Australia had decided against building its own ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

for a traditionalist, on a technological fix – either the discovery of an alternative source of clean energy, or geo-engineering. A source of energy that emits no greenhouse gases, is less hazardous than the nuclear industry, ...

The Monthly - Peter Singer - 2012-02-08 14:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

galaxy – for us, the Milky Way. In Stage IV, a civilisation controls the energy output of the visible ... for incremental steps. “Conventional nuclear thermal rockets are just not good enough, and they cannot be made good enough [for feasible interstellar space travel]. But the nuclear thermal rocket is the pick-up ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of nuclear energy. Polling in Australia shows a return to a solid majority opposing nuclear power for Australia as part of our future energy mix. The Australian political leadership has declared the subject out of bounds. At this Lowy event, three expert industry panellists discuss the future of nuclear energy ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

General item (Nuclear, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear power, ... The dirt on nuclear power "At least 99 nuclear accidents, totaling more than $20.5 billion in damages, occurred worldwide from 1952 to 2009 – ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments

the Fukushima nuclear reactor into meltdown; the sovereign debt crisis in Europe; and the riots without apparent ... more than it takes through higher prices for energy, really on the same scale? If you follow Abbott, ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

quiet. Birds, people, dogs were saving their energy. We were at the Queensland border, defined here ... and archival footage of space missions and nuclear tests are brought into play … Sen creates an atmosphere ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

as a source of energy or innovations in farming are completely lost on the audience you most want to reach: ... Worldwide resource depletion means rising energy prices; irrigation areas are critical to our national ... the first in our families to go to university. The development of clean energy just got a whacking huge ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

(Japan nuclear, Japan politics, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear fallout, New York Times) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments

him to the advisory board of the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy. * Andrew Bolt would ... of useful things like nuclear power and genetically engineered crops”. Bolt asserted that the ALP quotas ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

nuclear energy future. The debate had an odd feel, as Brown is categorical about Australia having no nuclear energy future and Switkowski contends that there is not enough national debate on the subject. Yet the issue of nuclear energy is full of anomalies. Centre-left politicians, such as Barack Obama and Gordon ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2010-05-26 12:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

consider nuclear power as a response to climate change?" The speakers include: Professor Barry ... "Prescription for the Planet", and David Noonan, Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Aust Conservation ... by the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES), Sustainable Populations Australia (SPA) and The Zero Carbon Network. ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

debate the controversial question, "Should we consider nuclear power as a response to climate ... Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Aust Conservation Foundation. They are joined by Dr Mark Diesendorf (UNSW) in a passionately argued question time. Presented by the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES), Sustainable ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

debate the controversial question, "Should we consider nuclear power as a response to climate ... Nuclear Free Campaigner for the Aust Conservation Foundation. They are joined by Dr Mark Diesendorf (UNSW) in a passionately argued question time. Presented by the Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES), Sustainable ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of generating and using energy must change. But if our coal-fired power plants are a thing of the past, what does the future look like? Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ solutions, what does it mean to find renewable, sustainable and green answers to the energy challenge, ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Malcolm Knox (‘Nuclear Dawn’, May) thinks there’s only one nuclear energy – the one that the uranium industry wants him to think about. The uranium industry and the US Department of Energy are locked into two things that will condemn them to armament ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2010-06-02 17:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of generating and using energy must change. But if our coal-fired power plants are a thing of the past, what does the future look like? Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ solutions, what does it mean to find renewable, sustainable and green answers to the energy challenge, ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-09-14 11:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

resistance to nuclear energy is softening. Alarmed by the prospect of climate change, leading scientific ... energy. Twenty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, my local Friends of the Earth bookshop ... they offer the cleanest substantial source of alternative energy. While pro-nuclear environmentalists ...

The Monthly - James Kirby - 2011-01-14 16:00 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

flirtations with nuclear power block the way. Institutions that should be planning our energy future dare ... Consumerism, Energy, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nuclear, Productivity ... Renewable Energy ...

The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2011-09-16 15:58 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

changes scepticism, and also discusses the pros and cons of the world's energy options, from nuclear ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

changes scepticism, and also discusses the pros and cons of the world's energy options, from nuclear ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

changes scepticism, and also discusses the pros and cons of the world's energy options, from nuclear ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of the exhilarating destructive energies that will be explored in the film, in the form of his disastrously erroneous ... generation, and you couldn’t think of a nicer person to shake a nuclear family up a little. Ruffalo’s Paul ... languid sexual energy does not go under-utilised: there’s the hot girl from the restaurant whom he’s ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2010-09-30 11:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments