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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.

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.

In a sleepy corner of South Australia, waste oat husks are being used to generate dispatchable, carbon-neutral power.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

How will we get to net zero? Meet the entrepreneurs leading the charge.

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.

Vodafone says energy generation at the three solar farms in the UK is scheduled to begin at the end of 2022.