Khabarovsk In September 2003, as I was busily settling into the bosom of retirement in Australia, I was invited to a week’s deer stalking and fly fishing on the Athol Estate in the Scottish Highlands. It wouldn’t be just a week of shooting and fishing but...
[Continued from Part 1 ] Royal Dutch Three weeks later, as the Murex cruised down the Malacca Strait toward Singapore, its crew might have seen a flare on the Sumatran coast. Twelve years earlier, a Dutch tobacco farmer wandering around the area looking for suitable farmland stumbled...
Baku In the 1880s the Rothschilds and Nobels were losing their battle with John D Rockefeller for the kerosene market in Europe. Their unlikely saviour was a Jewish merchant from the East End of London. Marcus Samuel transformed the petroleum industry, persuaded the Royal Navy to...
Australia’s official plan to reach net zero by 2050 is built on the AEMO 'Renewables 2050' roadmap....
Canada breaks ground on rirst small modular reactor—meanwhile, Australia clutches its legislative pearls ...
On April 28, 2025, Spain and Portugal suffered one of the most significant grid failures in modern European history. ...
In 1856 Eunice Newton Foote, an amateur scientist from upstate New York, suggested: An atmosphere of that gas [carbon dioxide] would give to our earth a high temperature; and if as some suppose, at one period of its history the air had mixed with it...
Sunday 5th May My flight to Singapore to join MV Buxstar for a 5,000 mile voyage to Sydney via Jakarta, Freemantle, Adelaide and Melbourne arrives 6 am. Packing has been complicated. What will the weather be like in the Southern Ocean? Who cares, the...
A voyage from Chichester to Oban on a 47' Motor Yacht built in 1935 and designed by GL Watson....
‘Average capacity factors’ and unit costs from CSIRO’s GenCost 2023-24 report have been adopted to estimate and compare capex for AEMOs planned ‘renewable energy 2050’ network with an equivalent nuclear energy network....