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May 22, 2012
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Coal industry cries foul as Aussie Government announces clean energy future

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement yesterday that from 1 July next year big polluters will pay AUD$23 (NZ$29) for every tonne of carbon emitted into the atmosphere has, not surprisingly, garnered quite the reaction. Kiwi ands Aussie scientists generally love it, but when it comes to the biggest Aussie polluter of all—the coal industry—it’s a different story altogether.

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The Kiwi breaking solar ground in Silicon Valley

Solar support is continuing to climb as more of us become aware of its potential. Need proof? Australia’s newly-announced clean energy investment package is tipped to provide massive opportunities for large-scale development, and closer to home, initiatives such as the Solar Promise campaign launched today urge communities to embrace solar technology. Meanwhile, over in Silicon Valley, one Kiwi scientist is at the heart of a company making groundbreaking strides toward commercial solar cells which could radically reshape the global economy.

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Food Inc: The future of NZ?

The dairy boom has had something of a dream run, and Kiwi-owned, Brazil-based dairy company Leitissimo is proof of that.  Still, as Vincent Heeringa writes, you’ve got to wonder why we’re still grazing cows while other countries develop hi-tech economies. Are we too reliant on our farmers? Or, as Massey University professor Jacqueline Rowarth argues, is the future of New Zealand in Food Inc?

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A $2.5b leap for mankind

It’s six years since we first profiled stargazin’ AUT professor Sergei Gulyaev in Idealog #2. Now he and his colleagues are part of a $2.5 billion initiative to create a network of radio telescopes able to see further into the universe than ever before. The SKA telescope, once completed, will have several thousand antennas up to 5,500 kilometres apart working together as a single telescope and allowing astronomers to see distant galaxies in more detail. Pretty clever, huh?

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Video of the week

When telly shows with a bit of a following get canned in their prime, rabid fans often find it hard to let go. Check out this credit sequence imagining what a rebooted Pee Wee Herman TV programme might look like.

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