The Australian Bite
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Keeping cool without coal
14 March 2009
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"Sandpatch sunset" by Coastwatcher, Albany, Western Australia (ABC Contribute)
On this week’s Australian Bite, we look at the link between power blackouts and Australians’ increasing reliance on home air conditioning. At the end of a week in which the Australian Government released draft legislation for its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, we hear about some cutting edge Australian solar technology that has British backers excited. And we also meet author Paula Shaw, who recounts her two years teaching at a remote indigenous school on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula.
