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Opinion:

¶ “Global climate is spinning out of control – but now, we have the technology!” • Heatwaves of more than 50° C in Iraq and India in recent weeks show climate disruption is a present-day reality, not something for a leisurely response. But almost by the week, real-world advances provide a more positive prognosis. [The Ecologist]

Installation of a new 3-MW Siemens offshore
wind turbine. Image: artist’s impression by Siemens.

World:

¶ A Solar Citizens consumer campaigner said that in the first five months of this year, the uptake of small-scale solar in Tasmania had been up by at least 25%. He attributes the turnaround to the recent energy crisis when Basslink was disabled, coupled with an extremely dry year which depleted Hydro’s water reserves. [ABC Online]

Solar irrigation shaves more than six thousand
dollars off this farmer’s annual power bill. (Margot Foster).

¶ The…