The Hoover Dam and its Bypass Bridge Taken from the Arizona Side Spillway In June last year a call from a friend I had not heard from since he left Jakarta around Y2k precipitated an unexpected journey. He had retired, was living in Las Vegas, and...
David Wilson is a retired engineer, author, and world traveller with a fascinating career spanning continents and industries. ...
Kalgoorlie’s Lynas’s Rare Earths Processing Plant and the Kilns that Crack when the Power Fails Kalgoorlie is the kind of place Australia forgets until something goes wrong. Then suddenly the country remembers that real industry still happens there - that metals are processed there, ore is...
Workers before going on shift outside the Tooma-Tumut tunnel, 1960 – National Museum Australia When a wind turbine at Victoria’s Berrybank Wind Farm collapsed earlier this year, it was easy to dismiss the scene - twisted steel and shattered blades - as a freak event. 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. ...
‘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....