BHP joins Bill Gates in backing technology to kill off CO2.

BHP has invested $6 million in a company that has developed technology with the potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on a large scale using huge fans.

A digital image showing "direct air capture" technology
 which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
deployed on a large scale.

BHP said Canadian company Carbon Engineering, which counts Bill Gates among its private investors, was leading the development of "direct air capture," a technology with the potential to deliver "large scale negative emissions”.

Read the story from The Age by Darren Gray - “BHP joins Bill Gates in backing technology to kill off CO2.”

Biggest solar farm connects to the grid

The 100MW Clare solar farm – the biggest to date in Queensland – has begun exporting to the grid, as some 1400MW of large scale solar projects in the state get ready to begin production this year.

Clare, located  some 35 km southwest of Ayr, in north Queensland is the twice the size of the current biggest operating solar farm in the state, the recently connected 50MW Kinston project, although it will soon be overtaken.

The Clare solar farm is owned by Lighthouse Solar, whose have another project in north Queensland, the 20MW Hughenden solar farm, that is also now registered with AEMO and appears poised to begin production.

Clare has been injecting up to 20MW in each of the last few days. The two new solar farms join a string of new solar projects connected in Queensland, NSW and South Australia in the last few weeks, including Australia’s biggest that has just begun production

Read the story by Giles Parkinson from RenewEconomy - “Biggest solar farm connects to the grid.”