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Australian ocean energy could power Melbourne by 2050: CSIRO study

10 months agoUtilities / Energy : Peak Energy

ReNew Economy points to a new study from the CSIRO on ocean power potential in Australia - Australian ocean energy could power Melbourne by 2050: study. Did you know that wave energy has the potential to supply about 11 per cent of Australia’s electricity – the equivalent to powering a city the size of Melbourne – by 2050? If the results of yesterday’s Climate Institute’s “Climate of the Nation 2012? report are anything to go by, you probably didn’t.
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