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The rise of metal fuels
- ▶ 40:11 Richard Wang You have abundant energy resources, places like the Western Sahara, with solar and wind, or Australia, or the Middle East, and capture all that ultra-low cost one cent per kilowatt hour energy into the form of the metals, and then very…
How China is reshaping the global auto market
- ▶ 16:32 Michael Dunne Indonesia, Australia, the UK, across Europe, uh, virtually every legacy automaker is taking it on the chin, and the most vulnerable right now, there's two of them.
- ▶ 30:27 Michael Dunne Australia, New Zealand, no problem.
Surprising trends in global electricity generation
- ▶ 32:46 Nick Fulgham But for a country like Germany, Spain, some provinces in China that have high solar capacity and high solar penetration, California, quite a few systems, Australia is also one, 6 times in the scene
Inside the global fertilizer crunch
- ▶ 8:39 Josh Linville What we've been watching very, very closely is countries like Australia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:56 Josh Linville Australia.
Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain
- ▶ 4:38 Scott Nolan And, um, Australia also has great deposits, but if, if you look at, at today, it's really Kazakhstan, Canada are going to drive it for the U.S.
Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
- ▶ 9:53 Sean McAvoy Um, and we're also seeing like another evolution happening in Australia, where Australia has 5 times in the scene
More 2026 trends: Solar costs, oil oversupply, and the startup slump
- ▶ 13:59 Nat Bullard Yeah, you were, congratulations at costing thrice what it costs in Australia or Germany, neither of which are particularly low-cost markets for anything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Shayle Kann Okay, on from solar to batteries, and specifically batteries down under, uh, slide one oh seven. 9 times in the scene
A ‘rain delay’ for the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 14:57 Stephen Lacey They might, you know, have partnerships in China, they might move to Europe, Australia, the U.K.
New Mexico proves America can still build [partner content]
How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B
- ▶ 12:15 Shayle Kann Like it turns out that economies of scale for solar are huge and we get utility scale solar sub a dollar a watt and residential solar for four bucks a watt in the U S cheaper in Australia and other places.
Tumult in residential solar
- ▶ 30:30 Julian Dumoulin-Smith Like, there is still a lot of value that is caught up at various points in the supply chain that, you know what, honestly, if you look internationally, you would ask, why is U.S. residential solar so expensive versus, say, Australia?
A former race car engineer on battery safety and supply chains [partner content]
- ▶ 1:56 Tristan Doherty I remember vividly once in Australia, we were doing the morning warmup on Sunday morning.
The U.S. nuclear groundswell
- ▶ 29:14 Chris Colbert Um, you want to be sure you have access to transmission, because I'll tell you that, you know, it's going to be easier to permit and get a nuclear plant built than it is to get new transmission lines, and that's just historically how it's…
The geopolitics of rare earth elements
- ▶ 8:08 Shayle Kann And lithium, it's in Australia or South America. 2 times in the scene
What’s next for the battery storage boom? [partner content]
- ▶ 12:16 Jeff Waters Do a lot in Australia.
Serving data center load with carbon capture
- ▶ 27:15 Julio Friedmann Um, um, in contrast, though, the Middle East, Australia, yeah, that could work.
The coming robotics wave
- ▶ 26:30 Andy Lubershane And actually, I believe that's part of the reason that that InfraVision was founded, um, actually in Australia.
The promise and perils of sodium-ion batteries
- ▶ 13:21 Shayle Kann You know, this isn't necessarily true forever, but certainly as it stands today, not only is the lithium production predominantly outside of North America, it's in South America and in Australia, but lithium refining is, is almost…
- ▶ 41:17 Adrian Yao I mean, that mostly is in Australia and the Northern Tri- uh, the Northern Triangle, um, in South America.
More 2025 trends: DeepSeek, plug-in hybrids, and curtailment
- ▶ 32:06 Nat Bullard Their BYD is getting ready to ship its extended range EV ute, i.e. pickup truck, in Australia.
Lithium’s wild ride
- ▶ 4:39 Ernest Scheyder Both of them can be found in, and this is very abundant in parts of Australia, parts of the western, parts of the eastern United States, excuse me, uh, and parts of Africa, and that production process is more akin to what you would think… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:55 Ernest Scheyder So we were talking about Australia and Chile earlier in the conversation.
- ▶ 21:04 Shayle Kann As we've talked about, Chile's the largest brine producer in the world, the second largest producer overall behind Australia.
- ▶ 25:19 Shayle Kann Because my understanding is China actually does want to ramp up lithium production, though it doesn't have the resources that are quite as plum as what you see in Australia. 2 times in the scene
The state of connected DERs [partner content]
- ▶ 6:54 Charlotte Johnson In other countries, what we've seen, so if you take Australia, for example, where one in three homes have rooftop solar, I think that's about 20 gigawatts of solar, so a very similar solar install capacity to somewhere like Texas, the… 2 times in the scene
Hunting for geologic hydrogen
- ▶ 33:41 Pete Johnson Um, you know, company down in Australia, Australia's got a lot of activity going on. 5 times in the scene
Decarbonizing the high seas
- ▶ 31:56 Dr. Lynn Loo And, and I mean, I think, you know, some of these ships, so for example, the iron ore route between Australia and North Asia, um, ships come into, um, 2 times in the scene
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
- ▶ 51:44 Drew Baglino You're taking lithium from Australia, sending them to China, and then from China.
With Great Power: Why dynamic rates are gaining momentum
- ▶ 10:18 Ahmad Faruqi More pointed with the passage of time, and if you look at places like Australia or Hawaii, it is even more pronounced. 2 times in the scene
Could VPPs save rooftop solar?
- ▶ 7:47 Jigar Shah And so one of the tools that people talk about is the fact that we have 40% rooftop solar in Australia, and that we should have something more similar to that here in the United States, right?
Building a supply chain for rare earth elements
- ▶ 11:51 Shayle Kann It takes place in South America or in Australia, and then a lot of the refining takes place in China.
The Big Switch: Are Batteries the New Oil?
- ▶ 20:14 Dr. Melissa Lott So, 80% of lithium comes from Australia, China, and Chile, where 70% of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:12 Tom Moerenhout It wouldn't matter if it was Australia or Canada or even Europe.
Update: What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
- ▶ 24:49 Sam Jaffe Um, I think that the, the, the, the biggest winners, though, of the, of the other countries that are involved, Australia and Korea and Chile are the, are by far the biggest winners. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:37 Shayle Kann Within the list of free trade agreement countries includes the countries that happen to produce the most, at least lithium, which is Chile and Australia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:04 Sam Jaffe So for instance, with, um, with lithium, you start, let's say you're mining the hard rock in Australia, then you process it into lithium hydroxide. 2 times in the scene
The cost of nuclear
- ▶ 11:34 Shayle Kann It's like once you get down to residential solar, then people will point out to you that it costs like a third as much to install in Australia as it does in the U.S.
Stopping geoengineering, by accident
- ▶ 40:22 Dan Visioni Australia has claimed they're doing something very local to preserve, um, the coral reefs, but, um, it's, that's not something you would consider large scale or even at a measurable scale. 2 times in the scene
The early days of transoceanic hydrogen transport
- ▶ 14:05 Anne-Sophie Corbeau It has been done only once between Australia and Japan, so you can already see, you know, the kind of trips that we are envisaging, and it was done at the very beginning of, um,
Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition
- ▶ 32:03 Cristobal Undurraga So half of the Australian production per year.
What the new Treasury rules mean for EV supply chains
- ▶ 10:03 Sam Jaffe Um, I think that the, the, the, the biggest winners, though, of the, of the other countries that are involved, Australia and Korea and Chile are the, are by far the biggest winners. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:52 Shayle Kann Within the list of free trade agreement countries includes the countries that happen to produce the most, at least lithium, which is Chile and Australia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:41 Sam Jaffe So for instance, with, um, with lithium, you start, let's say you're mining the hard rock in Australia, then you process it into lithium hydroxide. 2 times in the scene
Why methane matters
- ▶ 35:08 Shayle Kann Thing that has started to emerge is this class of generally feed additives for cattle, um, that come in a couple of different forms, but the main one is, uh, what's called bromiform, um, which is this compound that comes from asparagopsis,…
Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
- ▶ 14:53 Jenny Chase Australia has done it.
What’s holding up hydrogen in Europe?
- ▶ 27:54 Gnevamir Fleece Um, well, actually liquefied hydrogen is already being transported between Australia and Japan.
Is the Inflation Reduction Act a win for EVs and batteries?
- ▶ 6:45 Sam Jaffe And free trade partner countries can include, that includes our North American neighbors, Mexico and Canada, but includes 12 other countries, including South Korea, Colombia, Chile, Australia, and a host of other countries.
- ▶ 12:20 Shayle Kann So as it stands today, most lithium is mined in either South America or Australia. 7 times in the scene
Averting water wars as we decarbonize
- ▶ 20:31 Dr. Michael Webber In parts of California, and inland Texas, and Israel, and Australia.
- ▶ 33:36 Dr. Michael Webber Some of this has also happened in Australia, where they developed markets to trade water. 2 times in the scene
What the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would mean for climatetech
- ▶ 35:41 Shayle Kann That would still count, you're saying, because the lithium itself was extracted in Australia. 2 times in the scene
Making sense of solar engineering
- ▶ 10:06 Dan Visioni There are some experiments proposed in Australia.
The great rush for battery metals
- ▶ 18:50 Kurt House Um, but nickels produced in dozens of countries, uh, Indonesia, Canada, Australia, uh, Finland, Norway, Russia, uh, which is a problem.
- ▶ 50:42 Kurt House So North America, Japan, Australia, the EU, uh, is pretty strong. 2 times in the scene
Can Europe quit Russian fossil fuel by next winter?
- ▶ 9:10 Jesse Jenkins We imported about 60% of our oil in 2008, and we're, you know, potentially, we're poised to open up a number of liquefied natural gas import terminals across the country to import natural gas from, you know, from Qatar and from Australia…
What the grid can learn from the internet
- ▶ 14:15 Astrid Atkinson One of the things that we've seen go into place in places like Hawaii and Australia, where this is also an issue, is that you'll start to see limitations on how much solar can go in, whether that's limiting new installs or limiting the…
- ▶ 25:41 Lara Pierpoint Um, what about in some other places that, that you guys have some familiarity, some of the, some of the local co-ops within the U.S. or Australia?
The Carbon Copy: The lithium land grab in California
- ▶ 7:48 Stephen Lacey The vast majority is mined in Australia and South America and processed in China.
The future of the home solar market
- ▶ 12:16 Shayle Kann Soft costs in general are much higher than they are in places like Germany and Australia, but customer acquisition costs in particular, we still have to spend a lot to attract a customer to get them to sign up to buy solar, to put it on…