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E-commerce boom has property bankers eyeing warehouses
Data centres, hospitals and build-to-rent apartment blocks are the beacons of hope for institutional investors in real estate in 2021 after the sector s traditional trophy assets – major malls and big city offices – lost some of their lustre through the disruption of last year (14 January 2021). More.
The solar panel fire season is getting more intense in Australia
A recent report rated Australia as one of the cheapest per kilowatt for solar PV, but it questioned our safety standards. Poor-quality solar rooftop components have led to an expanding list of product recalls (14 January 2021). More.
As a wall of water 3m high and 500m wide pours over the Burdekin Falls Dam a hydro-electric expert says it should be generating clean, green power worth $1.3bn. Professor Simon Bartlett, who led investigations into hydro-electricity for the former State Electricity Corporation of Queensland, says the current waste cannot be tolerated. The Burdekin Falls is the Snowy Mountains scheme of northern Australia and should be developed, Professor Bartlett said. We cannot tolerate wasting 17,000 Olympic swimming pools a day, given Australia s drought conditions and need for continuous renewable hydropower. Rising from just over half full, Queensland s biggest dam has been filled and topped up to 145 per cent capacity in a matter of days. It is now holding 2.7 million megalitres and 400,000 megalitres a day is spilling.
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