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Tropomi and fugitive methane emissions - recent insights
The Tropomi sensor on Sentinel 5p offers new insights into fugitive methane emissions in gas producing basins. But it is early days, and there is much to learn. Here I explore some implications of recent findings, integrating the new Tropomi constraints with gas production data from US shakle gas basins including satellite-based flaring estimates.
On the gas fired recovery
If gas is so crucial for industry why waste it heating houses?
Eastern Australian gas market and the question of domestic reservation
An analysis motivated by the question of the amount of reservation of Queensland coal seam gas production needed to preserve domestic supply
Anatomy of an energy crisis - Part 3
First published on the Conversation.
Our planet is heating
The crust beneath our feet contains an undeniable record of surface warming over the last century, and a bet for the "deniers".
A precarious geological bargain
The ancient Silk Roads skirting the great mountains and deserts of central Asia, weave a magic thread through a region that has played a special role in history, in a land shaped by tremendous geological forces.
Travelling with Timor Leste
On the ghosts of "Jakarta dua" and the shocking realisation hidden in the dark shadows of Timor landscapes.
Cherry picking contrarian geologists
Title says it all - as originally published in the Australian, December, 2011
Our effect on the planet is real
A tribute to Robert Sherlock, and a reference to a new unit of energy use termed the hiro. First published by the Conversation, June 2011.
Fossil fuels will run out of gas when the solar revolution arrives
Op-ed published in the Age, March 2011
Solar and wind power crucial for climate future
Solar and wind power crucial for climate future, Op-ed published in the Canberra Times, February, 2011.
Do renewable energy by the numbers, and it all adds up
Op-ed originally published in the Age, June, 2010.
ELEXI - the Electron Export Industry
an MEI position paper written around November, 2009.
Geology points to dangers ahead
A differnce of opinion with a predecessor - Op-ed originally published in the Australian, May 6th 2009