The heating up of old car tyres to make steel could one day spell the end of coal - threatening one of Australia s key exports to China.
University of New South Wales engineering and science professor Veena Sahajwalla has pioneered world-first green steel technology where hydrogen and solid carbon are extracted from waste rubber to make metal.
The former judge on the ABC s New Inventors show told Daily Mail Australia her innovation, also known as Polymer Injection Technology, had the potential to one day make metallurgical coal redundant. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely, she said. We are certainly looking at a future where the dependency on coal for steel making is completely eliminated.
Iron ore, a lever to pull Australia, China out of trade war 2 minutes read
By Rocío Otoya
Sydney, Australia, Dec 30 (efe-epa).- Iron ore is pushing Australia and China, the world’s largest exporter and importer of the raw material, to reach an understanding despite escalating trade tensions between the two countries.
Bilateral relations have strained throughout the year with several friction points, including import tariffs on several Australian products by China.
Barley, wine, beef, and coal are some products directly or indirectly affected by the trade war with China.
According to Australian experts, it is a retaliation against Canberra after it called for an international investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, which first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN
Countries in Southeast Asia, a growing region of more than 650 million people, stand to make lasting deals with the United States and keep China at bay if President-elect Joe Biden works with their prized cross-border dialogue process, analysts in the region believe.
Biden’s expected willingness to strengthen a U.S. role in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc will increase confidence among the Asian leaders that Washington will act predictably as a bulwark against China neither bowing to it nor over-provoking it as well as a potential source of trade deals, analysts say.
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has come under fire from leading infectious diseases experts say Greater Sydney should have had a three-day lockdown before Christmas. University of New South Wales head of biosecurity and research Raina MacIntyre warned New Year s Eve had the potential to cause a horror two-week period with the virus. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has faced calls to scrap plans for fans to attend the third Test match between Australia and India at the SCG. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard She said that would be accelerated by the cricket s third Test match between Australia and India at the 48,000-seat SCG, which will go ahead with a 50 per cent capacity.