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While other countries were embracing nuclear power decades ago, Australia put a ban on it. Now the federal opposition wants to lift that ban and build nuclear power plants on the sites of ageing coal-fired power stations. Today, we investigate the feasibility of the idea with Dylan McConnell, an energy systems analyst at the University of New South Wales. We ask why would we go down that path when renewable energy is surging ahead?Featured: Dylan McConnell, renewable energy and energy systems analyst at UNSW Sydney
Dylan McConnell discusses the benefits of the Capacity Investment Scheme, its impact on prices and how the market should pay for spilled energy.
This week your intrepid hosts recap some listener mail from friend of the pod, Dylan McConnell, who boldly contends that some of our critiques on IAMs could be appropriately directed closer to home at the ISP. Also Dylan earns mega bonus points by renaming the ISP as our very own energy system HEGELIAN DIALECTIC. If we called it that we might get even less focus on the process because shiny hegelian dialectic people. Hell Yes!The paper we explored this time represents perhaps peak wonk in the just released Victorian Healthy Homes Program research findings. The program was designed to measure the impact of an energy efficiency and thermal comfort home upgrade on temperature, energy use, health and quality of life. A thousand homes of low-income and vulnerable Victorians were chosen for the study that demonstrated some compelling findings, including… LISTEN TO THE POD. Tennant's One More Thing was to spruik the 2022 Energy Efficiency Summit at which the many the opportunities for energy efficiency to accelerate our journey to net zero emissions will be discussed. Sound awesome? It will be! Want to come? You can! You can register to join online. Regretfully, the full version of Frankie's incitement for you to storm the venue was edited out, not that that should be taken as a challenge to our dear listeners…;-)Frankie's One More Thing was to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Green Building Council of Australia who turn 20 this year. So many talented and passionate people have passed through the GBCA over the years, creating a community of alumni whose influence on building a more sustainable built environment goes from strength to strength. Frankie's sneaky twofer was to remind us all that King Charles cares a bunch about climate change and even wrote a book about it. This book!Luke's One More Thing dangerously broke the mold of our pod and departed from climate I KNOW HOW OUTRAGEOUS to flag a particularly brilliant piece of pop culture in the new David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream. Hard recommend from Mr. Menzel!That's all folks, see you next time! Please keep tweeting your thoughts to us at @LukeMenzel, @TennantReed and @FrankieMuskovic and if you would like to weave some red twine through our back catalogue, give us your feelpinions or suggest papers to read we are always here for that - hit us up at mailbag@letmesumup.net.
We keep talking about a transition to 100% renewable energy, but do we have the technology and investment to make it happen or are the sceptics right? Hear directly from a panel of experts - their views might surprise you. Our panelists are: - Simon Holmes à Court, is senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University and sits on the board of the Smart Energy Council - Dr David Osmond, Senior Wind Engineer at Windlab, a leader in advanced wind engineering services - Dylan McConnell, Research Fellow at the Australian-German Climate & Energy College
This is Part 1 of our podcast companion to our latest Honest Government Ad about the fires. If you haven't seen the video, you can watch it here.Simon's chosen call to action is the petition to support Independent MP Zali Steggall's bill for a Climate Change Act, please add your voice: climateactnow.com.auYou can follow Simon Holmes à Court on Twitter here: @simonahacAnd here are the links to other climate and energy communicators that Simon recommends following: Ketan Joshi: @KetanJ0 | Tim Baxter: @timinmitcham | Dylan Mcconnell: @dylanjmcconnell | Frank Jotzo: @frankjotzoMake sure to catch Part 2 in which I speak with renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann - coming soon!Music featured in this podcast courtesy of Tom DayIf you enjoyed this podcast, subscribe and please recommend it to others! Help us to keep going in these waysVisit our Juice Media store Follow us on Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
We love a good who-done-it mystery! Knives Out and Bad Times At The El Royale have the perfect amount of twists to keep you entertained! Joined by Dylan McConnell. Host: Corben and Nicole Wilkins ALL trivia and info about movies looked up on IMDB, Flixster, Youtube and Rotten Tomatoes and their wiki links MOVIES Bad Times At The El Royale RT 75% / AUD 73% / 81% Stuffed www.imdb.com/title/tt6628394/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Knives Out RT 97% / AUD 92% / 92% Stuffed www.imdb.com/title/tt8946378/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Want to talk about movies you watch with us? Send us an email! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Beyond Zero speaks to Dylan McConnell, energy analyst at the Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne about increasing renewables on the electricity market, uncertainty for wind and solar farms; and marginal loss factors.
Climate and Energy Researcher, Dylan McConnell joins us in the studio to let us know about what Australia's energy system might look like, if only we had the leadership. With just over 1 month to go to the Victorian State Election you can still get involved with Yes2Renewables' push to see Melbourne's trains powered by renewable energy. Find out more here.Keep up with all the latest events around FoE on Facebook.
Arianne and Kate are with Dylan McConnell, an energy analyst from the Australian-German Climate and Energy College. On this episode, they talk about where we get our electricity from, the transition to clean energy in Australia, and a fact check on electricity prices.
The latest version of the NEG is raising fears that while it might continue to be useless, at least for cutting emissions, it may not be benign. Dylan McConnell from the Climate and Energy College shares his concerns.
We need to ditch fossil fuels. Can America go 100% renewable by 2050? Does the technology already exist? We speak to Prof. Mark Delucchi, Prof. Christopher Clack, and Prof. David Connolly. UPDATE: Since this episode was published, Tesla have unveiled a prototype of a electric semi truck. Check out the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/38ku2a4 Our Sponsors: Tushy | Wordpress.com | TuneIn Credits: This episode has been produced by Wendy Zukerman, Heather Rogers and Shruti Ravindran. Production help from Rose Rimler. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. We’re edited this week by Blythe Terrell and Annie-Rose Strasser, with extra help from Rachel Ward. Fact checking by Michelle Harris. Sound design by Martin Peralta. Music written by Bobby Lord. For this episode we also spoke to Professor Vijay Modi, Professor Mark Jacobson, Dr Gorm Bruun Andresen, Professor Willett Kempton, Dr Dylan McConnell, and Dr Jane CS Long. And an extra thanks to the Zukerman family. Selected reading: Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi paper showing that the US could be run on 100 percent renewable energy.Christopher Clack and his team’s paper criticising Mark’s workSurvey published this year of more than 100 energy experts on the future of renewables.National Renewable Energy Lab’s look at Renewable Electricity Detailed report on California’s energy future
BZE speaks to Tim Forcey and Dylan McConnell about their recently released report "A short-lived gas shortfall: A review of AEMO's warning of gas-supply 'short falls'. The review found that although a “gas-price crisis” exists in eastern-Australia the size of AEMO’s forecast shortfall is very small, amounting to no more than around 0.2% of annual supply.
Dylan McConnell of the Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne discusses South Australia’s recent state-wide blackout following once in 50-year storms.