It might seem the antithesis to good fuel management but the Wellington Institute of Technology says mixing water with diesel creates a more efficient fuel and it has completed trials to prove it.
When your power demand is a long way from the source of generation, then your transmission infrastructure better be very good, which ours isn’t, and the reason Transpower is investing $5 billion on the national grid over the next seven years.
One of the most important projects in the national grid upgrade involves the new HVDC converter stations for the inter-island link at Benmore substation in the South Island and Haywards substation near Wellington.
We look at the most controversial project in the upgrade of the national grid, the new lines from Whakamaru to Auckland.
Meridian’s latest wind farm, Te Uku near Raglan, reached its first stage of construction in what is a model of community involvement and, despite difficult construction conditions, is ahead of schedule.
John Pfahlert has spent more time than usual talking up the benefits of petroleum following the Gulf of Mexico disaster. We talk to the face of the industry about balancing his job with his outdoor life-style and oil in general.
While New Zealand is known around the world for its strong nuclear-free stance, mid-last century the nation was as excited about the dawning atomic age as any country.
After a decade in construction, the China Experimental Fast (neutron) Reactor (CEFR) near Beijing, the worlds most advanced nuclear power project, has reached the first stage in a project that started in the 1990s.
Natural gas flowing from shale rock has brought a boom in gas resources and production in North America, and could make up a third of future US gas resources. Could the same thing happen here with shale riding to the rescue of a post-Maui gas industry.
Shell Exploration NZ was awarded a Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Award this year for the design and development of its Pohokura production station project.
Coalmining will take on a whole new future with the prospect of converting our vast lignite reserves into fuel. Mark Rogers talks to Solid Energy on its ‘coal to liquid’ vision through ‘ignite’ technology.
Norman Hardie, civil and structural engineer, mountaineer, and environmentalist makes a compelling case for hydro-electric power development on the West Coast with canal and tunnel hydro schemes.
Phillipa MacDonald at Kensington Swan takes a detailed look at Justice Dobson’s substantive findings regarding the claims brought by Todd against Shell and OMV in what is one of the country’s more significant industry court cases.
The Todd verus Shell and OMV as and the implications for JV partners.
Jim Hopkins takes a humorous look at our involvment in the nuclear game.
Say what, put water in my diesel?
Keeping the juice flowing
The third pole
The Waikato pylon war
Te Uku - Embracing community
A balanced view
Nuclear power: How close we came
Planet saving nuclear
Shale gas: The great hope
Recognising Pohukura's green side
Mining coal for liquid fuel
Hydro without flooding
All we are saying... is give nuclear a chance