Compost bin sensor puts Max on top of the world
A 13-year-old Adelaide boy has won an international inventors award in Malaysia after designing a Wi-Fi enabled electronic monitoring system for compost bins.
SA’s food waste solutions set to drive a new economy
Food waste is global scourge of alarming enormity – worth an estimated $1.6 trillion annually – but South Australia is placed at the forefront of finding new ecological and economic solutions.
Innovative underground electric vehicle heads for tests
An innovative underground electric vehicle that began with a $500,000 R&D grant is headed for testing in Australian mines. Prototypes of the Bortana EV, a battery powered vehicle fitted into a rugged utility vehicle by e-mobility group 3ME Technology, will be delivered to mines across the country this year. The Mets Ignited industry growth centre…
Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
Imagine the day when you’ll unroll or unfold your smartphone to answer it. If things go to plan, this day may be sooner than you think.
Leabrook brewery site lives on through barley variety
Coopers’ original brewery site has been honoured through a new barley variety tipped to become the South Australian brewers malt of choice.
Profiles of success: the Brisbane company charging ahead in the race to power tomorrow’s cars
Electric cars sometimes get described as “batteries on wheels”. A charged 60 kW vehicle could power a home, including its air-conditioning, for four or five days. The possibilities of “bidirectional charging” through vehicles are being taken seriously by Japanese automakers, and widespread adoption of EVs could eventually – and drastically – change the ways people use and buy electricity.
Canada’s BRP buys local boat builder
Canadian conglomerate BRP has purchased 80 pert cent of the shares in leading Australian aluminium leisure craft and trailer builder, Telwater Pty Ltd. BRP Marine, which owns the Evinrude, Alumacraft and Manitou brands, will increase its global reach by buying Australia’s number one builder of aluminum boats from owner, Paul Phelan. Phelan, Telwater’s managing director,…
Biogas energy storage system launches at wastewater plant
A commercial thermal energy storage system that converts biogas from a wastewater treatment plant has begun operating in South Australia.
Hydrogen infographic – a big bang or fuel for the future?
It all started with a bang…the big bang! The explosive power of hydrogen fueled a chain reaction that led to the Universe we have today. Now this power is being deployed on Earth to supply the energy needs of tomorrow. For Australia, solar powered splitting of water into hydrogen, and exporting it to Asia in…
IoT ideas: get them to market while they’re hot
The number of situations where Internet of Things solutions can do something useful is growing fast, as is the market for such solutions.