Australia plans to become world center for algae biofuel too

Bob Morris on Jan 23, 2011, 11:45 pm

Currently, the world focal point for algae biofuel is San Diego, CA, which has at least 30 such companies. Australia wants in on this too, and is starting with a collaboration between industry and university researchers.

The conditions of hot weather, flat land, brackish water and access to carbon dioxide make Australia ideal for [...]

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DSP merges with Socialist Alliance in Australia. Could break leftie logjam there

Bob Morris on Nov 14, 2009, 9:45 pm

Dave Riley certainly hopes so, and he was a founding member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective 37 years ago.

I think the merging of the DSP into the SA … is an efficacious means to break the political logjam that bears down upon the socialist left in this country. In effect, what the DSP has [...]

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Australia dust storm

Bob Morris on Sep 23, 2009, 2:28 am

And the sky turned black….

From Dave Riley in Australia (on Facebook)

Blogger ponders the Apocalypse If you live in Sydney or Brisbane — today you are in a dust storm.The outback has come to town in trillions of bits and pieces. Here in suburban Brisbane the sky turned red a half hour ago [...]

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