Profitting from humanity's mistakes and inaction

Buying a house? OK, you’ve ordered a building inspection to check the condition of the house, but what about a “climate valuation” report to consider the impact of climate change?

This could be the new box to tick when buying property, with an Australian company planning to have climate valuation reports available by October.

Sydney-based company Climate Risk, said the climate valuation reports would provide a value impact assessment based on the risk of sea-level rise and flood inundation associated with climate change.

Read Jason Dowling’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Climate change inspections may join building inspections as prerequisites for buyers.”

(Whatever people do, someone, somewhere profits, that is accumulates some money. Climate change is no different for among all the resultant chaos will be someone “turning a dollar”, as is the case with Climate Risk, which has created a legitimate role for itself, although it has capitalized on the error of others, broadly humanity – Robert McLean.)

Australian battery company takes on Tesla and Panasonic

The ZCell battery aimed at
Tesla and Panasonic.

With the number of depleted home solar batteries being thrown away tipped to rise over the coming years, one Australian company is taking on electronic giants such as Tesla and Panasonic with the launch of an easily recyclable power source.

About 8,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries are thrown away every year and in the next 20 years that is expected to jump to 150,000 tonnes, partly due to a rise in the use of big home solar batteries, according to the Australian Battery Recycling Initiative.

Brisbane company Redflow says it has developed the ZCell battery that, unlike its competitors, does not use lithium and is more recyclable than its competitors.

Read the ABC story - “Australian company launches home solar storage battery to take on electronics giant Tesla.”