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Chief Scientist: we need to transform our world into a sustainable 'electric planet'

  • Written by Alan Finkel, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist

I want you to imagine a highway exclusively devoted to delivering the world’s energy.

Each lane is restricted to trucks that carry one of the world’s seven large-scale sources of primary energy: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, solar and wind.

Our current energy security comes at a price, the carbon dioxide emissions from the...

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