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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 23m

Vertical floating PV plant comes online in Germany www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/13/v...

Vertical floating PV plant comes online in Germany

Sinn Power has deployed a 1.8 MW vertical solar array on a quarry lake in the Bavarian municipality of Gilching. The company highlights the ecological benefits of the vertical system configuration and...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 31m

Australia Post to roll out 500 electric three-wheelers to replace petrol bikes by Christmas thedriven.io/2025/10/14/a...

Australia Post to roll out 500 electric three-wheelers to replace petrol bikes by Christmas

Australia Post to roll out 500 three-wheeled electric vehicles to replace petrol-powered motorbikes before the Christmas rush.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 37m

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project
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For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 1h

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk with many areas likely to be uninsurable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Rooftop solar, home batteries and EVs will slash energy bills, but Australia still needs a carbon price reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-sola...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Modelling shows gas project emissions will cause hundreds of heat-related deaths www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Scientists calculate the cost on climate and human lives of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments have argued it’s not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Australia’s household energy bills will halve by 2050, modelling suggests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s household energy bills will halve by 2050, modelling suggests

Grattan Institute report argues fall in costs will provide federal government room for more action on climate

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Australia's most powerful battery injects full capacity into grid for first time as it nears commissioning reneweconomy.com.au/australias-m...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Australia declared one of ‘most exposed nations in the world’ as ‘ordinary people’ failed
Simon Holmes à Court explained his problems with the major parties, and what he thinks the Albanese government is getting right au.news.yahoo.com/australia-de...

Australia declared one of ‘most exposed nations in the world’ as ‘ordinary people’ failed

Simon Holmes à Court spoke with Yahoo News about his frustrations with Liberal and Labor. Find out more.

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 3d

Australia’s first climate risk assessment has the stated purpose of guiding adaptation responses to protect people and property in a heating climate, but what happens if the reality is worse than some low-ball projections of future risks?
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Australia’s climate assessment fails on sea-level rise risks and vulnerable communities

Australia’s first climate risk assessment has the stated purpose of guiding adaptation responses to protect people and property in a heating climate, but what happens if the reality is worse than som...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 3d

Wind and solar smash grid market share records, even after heavy curtailment, coal at new low reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-sol...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 4d

Warned to prepare for 'disaster season' – what is it?

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 4d

Batteries on wheels: Europe’s leading low cost V2G model is coming to Australia thedriven.io/2025/10/09/b...

Batteries on wheels: Europe's leading low cost V2G model is coming to Australia

A groundbreaking project that combines car sharing and low-cost AC vehicle to grid charging facilities is coming to Australia.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 4d

Why super needs a uniform mandatory internal carbon price to guide its $4.3 trillion pool reneweconomy.com.au/why-super-ne...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 5d

‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say
Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say

Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, particularly to New Zealand

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 5d

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More on Second Hand Panels by John Hermans

The Hermans’ EV and 2H Solar Array at Clifton Creek Solar photovoltaic panels (PV) are ubiquitous in 2021, to the extent that their ability to turn up in the second-hand used market is now co…

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 5d

Digital passports could give old solar panels new life, rather than being recycled reneweconomy.com.au/digital-pass...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 6d

Heat, humidity: Why sport faces a climate risk

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Heat and humidity: Why sport needs a climate risk assessment

If sport becomes harder, more expensive, and happens on degraded facilities, then there will be lower participation and worse health outcomes.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 6d

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New Australian electric truck company signs delivery deal with Who Gives A Crap

New zero-emissions trucking company New Energy Transport has cut a deal with Who Gives A Crap to deliver greener toilet paper, and show the path for electric trucking in Australia.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 6d

Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
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Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal

Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 6d

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds
NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 6d

ACT went first and fastest to 100 per cent renewables: It now looks like the smartest policy of all reneweconomy.com.au/act-went-fir...

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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 7d

Australia rooftop solar installs up 16% as battery uptake accelerates www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/06/a...

Australia rooftop solar installs up 16% as battery uptake accelerates

Australia’s rooftop solar market has climbed by more than 16% in the past month with the latest data revealing that 237 MW of small-scale rooftop PV capacity was installed last month as consumers incr...

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