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His company is up 800pc, but this scientist doesn’t care
This week’s Tech Zero podcast was almost finished recording when this millionaire scientist revealed a carbon-killing idea his boss wasn’t yet comfortable with.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
The ‘mad scientist’ who could turn Australia’s iron ore green
Calix shares have gone up 800 per cent in two years and founder Mark Sceats has now invented a kiln that he reckons will solve Australia’s iron ore emissions problems and deliver green iron.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
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This CEO made $250m in lithium. Here’s where he’s investing next
Neometals CEO Chris Reed made just under $250 million from a $2 million dollar investment in lithium mining. Now he’s betting on an even bigger opportunity.
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- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Why the real money is in lithium recycling, not mining
Neometals CEO Chris Reed made just under $250 million from a $2 million dollar investment in lithium mining. Now he’s betting on an even bigger opportunity.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
June
This surprising item is feeding power into SA’s grid
In a sleepy corner of South Australia, waste oat husks are being used to generate dispatchable, carbon-neutral power.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Tech Zero episode 4: How to use food scraps for energy
A tiny South Australian town that was the birthplace of Bob Hawke is converting oat husks into energy, and biogas could provide up to 9 per cent of Australia’s energy needs.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
How ‘green gas’ could soothe the energy crisis
A huge gas resource equal to 5 per cent of domestic consumption could be delivered by 2025 if the government adopts a target for turning organic waste into biogas.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
The sludge that could save BHP’s carbon footprint
The storage of carbon in mining wastes has dropped off the radar of regulators and mining companies over the past decade. But now it’s back in a big way.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
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Carbon credits for mine wastes on the agenda as BHP plots big sink
The Clean Energy Regulator is considering making mine wastes eligible for carbon credits as BHP says one dam could offset its iron ore and nickel mines
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
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Tech Zero episode 3: the sludge that could save BHP’s carbon footprint
A dam holding BHP’s mine waste is quietly sucking carbon out of the atmosphere and could store enough to offset its entire iron ore and nickel carbon footprint.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Meet the man bringing cut-price solar to Australia
A snap decision to save an experimental solar panel factory from the scrap heap is key to Andrew Forrest’s plan to make Australia a hydrogen superpower without relying on China. Listen to episode 2 of the Tech Zero podcast.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
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Tech Zero episode 2: Andrew Forrest’s half price solar plan
Rombout Swanborn has spent the past decade and a large part of his fortune developing a super-slim solar panel that will dramatically cut the price of solar panels. He wants to make them in Queensland.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
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Tech Zero episode 1: the science of the lambs
Joanne Howarth wants to fleece the polystyrene packaging industry. She plans to replace the squeaky packing material made from oil or methane with something more environment-friendly: wool.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Labor urged to add polystyrene tax to plastics plan
A packaging disrupter has urged the Labor government to step up a plastic policy that will only this year ban the burger ‘clam shells’ axed by McDonalds in 1991.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Hate polystyrene? This entrepreneur has disrupted it
Joanne Howarth is on a mission to introduce a sustainable alternative with packs made from wool at her humble warehouse in Sydney’s western suburbs.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Empires will crumble. Fortunes will be made
Hear the entrepreneurs leading the charge into the next industrial revolution. Listen to Tech Zero, the new podcast from our Carbon Challenge team. Listen for free here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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