Beyond Zero Emissions radio

Beyond Zero Emissions' Matthew Wright and Scott Bilby speak to Mercedes Sierra, vice president and head of business development for solar energy at SENER, a leading Spanish engineering company, about solar thermal technology and storage.

Beyond Zero interviews Mercedes Sierra of SENER on Graphite Storage

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Walt Musial from US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratories tells the story of Wind Energy in the USA, from the 'Wind Rush' of the 1980s, challenges of scaling up, to proposals for huge offshore, floating, wind turbines.

Originally broadcast 091211

Beyond Zero talks to Walt Musial of the National Renewable Energy Laboratories

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Beyond Zero's Matthew Wright and Scott Biliby talk to Dr Thomas Mancini, CSP Program Manager, Sandia National Laboratories.  Tom has a long history in the solar programs having worked at Sandia  since the 1980s Tom talks about Solar Thermal Power Towers, Molten Salt Storage, the US DOE Solar programs and the hopeful serious commercialisation of Solar Thermal power in the USA this year.

Beyond Zero talks to Dr Thomas Mancini CSP Program Manager Sandia Laboratories

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Beyond Zero talks to David Karoly, Professor of Meteorology and an ARC Federation Fellow at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, about the so-called "Climate Gate" email affair at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. The conclusions of four independent studies found that the scientists had no case to answer. David also explains how increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases contribute to increases in maximum and mean temperatures in south eastern Australia leading to greater risk of extreme fire danger conditions.

Beyond Zero talks to Professor David Karoly of Melbourne University

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Rebecca Dunn a Researcher and PhD Candidate at Australia's leading Solar Thermal research institution the Australian National University talks about her experience in Solar, about the ANU's research program and about what is happening around the world.   This is Beyond Zero's Special Easter programming

Rebecca Dunn from ANU talks about Solar Thermal

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Randolph Toom has a background in the automotive industry and with his partners at heat2power has developed a heat engine he believes is superior to other waste heat recovery options.  In addition due to the temperatures he is able to run his heat engines at they may offer a much cheaper option to stirling engines for extracting direct electricity in applications such as paraboloidal dishes.  The engines are designed

Beyond Zero talks to Randolph Toom of Heat2Power

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Masdar is noted for their Masdar city project to create a high performance zero emissions city.  In this interview we talk about one of their main projects and that is testing and scaling solar beam down towers for comercial deployment in the United Arab Emirates.  The towers are from the work of Tokyo Institute of Technology and are pre commercial at this stage but hold a lot of pr

Beyond Zero talks to Dr Matteo Chiesa of the Masdar Institute

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The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has dominated the development of standard photovoltaics cells since the mid 1980s and Professor Martin Green has been at the head of the UNSW efforts since the late 1970s. From BP buying into the UNSW's photovoltaic technology in the 80s to the UNSW's recent relationship with Suntech, the UNSW has been at the forefront of photovoltaic development and commecialisation globally.

Beyond Zero talks to Professor Martin Green of UNSW

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Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Carnegie Corporation has developed the CETO II wave power device that produces zero emissions energy. Their unique system involves pumping a working fluid from the ocean floor to drive a conventional pelton wheel hydro turbine back on land.  The high pressure fluid operates in the same way that the falling water of a conventional hydro dam would act. The technology was developed by the inventor back in the mid 70s yet it is only since 2006 that most of its commercial development has occurred. There is enough wave resource available in proximity to population centres to supply more than half of Australia's current average annual energy demand. Greg Allen is the Chief Operating Officer and joins the Beyond Zero team to discuss the latest developments and implementation of their zero emissions wave power.

Beyond Zero talks to Greg Allen of Carnegie Corporation

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Beyond Zero talks to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg about Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is Foundation Director of the Centre for Marine Studies at the University of Queensland. He also heads the Coral Reef Ecosystem Laboratory. He has recently become the Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.

Beyond Zero talks to Ove Hoegh-Guldberg about the Great Barrier Reef

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