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NEM Fighter II: Ultra Turbo Reliability Edition

16 days ago 1h 1m

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The Old Double-Reverse-China: Australia’s Solar Industry Strategy?

30 days ago 1h 8m

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The Goldilocks Number: Which 2035 Target Is Just Right?

Apr 18th, 2024 1h 3m

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My Little GSOO: Gas Ships Are Magic!

Apr 4th, 2024 1h 11m

Australian Adaptation: Building for ‘Mad Max’, Hoping for ‘Her’

Mar 21st, 2024 1h 12m

Could Rewiring Humanity Be Easier Than Rewiring The Nation?

Mar 7th, 2024 1h 8m

Do Aussies Dream of Electric Popemobiles? Vehicle Efficiency Standards

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 3m

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Bonus: We Won’t Shut Up, But We'll Take Your Money

Feb 21st, 2024 14m 1s

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LMSU Holiday Special 2023: Explosion’s Eleven

Dec 28th, 2023 1h 30m

By popular demand we are joined once more by marvelous guest host Alison Reeve to round out 2023 with our BUMPER HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR! That’s right Summerupperers, ‘tis the season for the Highly Anticipated and Much Sought After awar

COP! In The Name Of Love (Before You Break My Chart)

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 8m

Continents apart and featuring LBM (Little Baby Muskovic) once more, your intrepid hosts dive into the eventful last few days of COP28 and swim around in the acronym soupy delight that is the first GST (Global Stocktake, not the pesky 10% tax).

28 COPs Later

Dec 8th, 2023 56m 27s

With the help of special guest and climate reporter of note Dr Simon Evans from Carbon Brief, your intrepid hosts sum up all the hot button issues from the first week of COP28. Global Stocktake! Tripling up on renewables! Doubling down on energ

Ultra Centrist But Not Super Critical: Blueprint’s Nuclear Plan

Nov 23rd, 2023 1h 14m

Frankie is back from pod mat leave and Tennant is spruiking recipes from Dungeons & Dragons Heroes’ Feast Cookbooks! (Vol 1 and Vol 2). Pleasantries aside we dive in with our own stocktake of the first Global Stocktake on progress of the Paris

H2AB8 in LTS: Residual Emissions WTF

Nov 9th, 2023 1h 5m

Our starter is the Strategic Plan of the revived State Electricity Commission of Victoria. What are they up to? Much more than we expected! Large scale clean energy investment, taking on existing contracts for difference, getting into electrifi

Contracts For Indifference? Equity v Social Equity

Oct 26th, 2023 1h

We start with a quick summary of the High Court of Australia’s decision in Vanderstock v Victoria, which struck down as unconstitutional the State of Victoria’s Distance Based Charge on Zero and Low Emissions Vehicles (aka the EV Tax). But we r

“(You gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Partly Reform Policy Analysis)” feat The BCA Boys

Oct 12th, 2023 1h 3m

We begin with the highs and lows of the International Energy Agency’s updated 1.5 Degrees Scenario, which notes fast progress on scaleup of key technologies that is - just - compensating for slow progress on emissions reductions. IEA reckon 1.5

Four Headings And No Numerals: Narrative Based Climate Scenarios

Sep 28th, 2023 1h

This satisfyingly hourlong episode (you’re welcome) starts with a discussion of the United Kingdom’s recent reset of climate policies, which PM Rishi Sunak casts as a “more pragmatic, proportionate and realistic approach” to Net Zero, and other

You Must Remember Hon, A Tonne Is Not A Tonne, On That You Can Rely

Sep 14th, 2023 57m 59s

Newly informed and inspired by generous listener survey responses, LMSU bullseyes the 1 hour median YOU demanded! That’s the power of data.Carbon Leakage Corner:This ep we start with the Australian Government’s Carbon Leakage Review, which has

"Mo Energy Market Mo Energy Problems (NEM Diss Track)” feat. The Notorious RBD

Aug 31st, 2023 1h 10m

Frankie’s maternity leave is well underway (it’s a girl!) meaning a new host graciously filling in (Alison Reeve) and a new shownote-writer rather less graciously filling in (Tennant).After briefly speculating on the virtues of peak energy nerd

GenCost or GenCON?! Level Heads on Levelised Costs

Aug 17th, 2023 1h 5m

It’s GAS CRISIS CORNER redux this week and so 2022 as European gas markets were seriously spooked. Russia? Nyet this time! In fact a response to developments far closer to home with potential industrial action at WA offshore LNG plants owned by

IEA Asks: Can You Dig It?

Aug 3rd, 2023 1h 3m

FLAMING HOT news out of Victoria – the State Government’s announcement of a ban on planning permits for gas connections to new homes from 1 Jan 2024 – had your intrepid hosts speculating on whether this is indeed the beginning of the end for do

What The World Needs Now Is Wonks, Climate Wonks (1965)

Jul 20th, 2023 51m 17s

In this week’s very special episode, your intrepid hosts eschew the usual compilation of current climate affairs (it’s not like much is happening anyway) and jump into the LMSU DeLorean to time warp our way back to 1965 USA where the ties are p

How Do You Solve a Problem Like My Heater? Grattan’s Get-Off-Gas Plan

Jul 6th, 2023 1h 23m

We start this week’s show with Tennant taking on tech titan Elon Musk by combining his two great two loves in SPREADSHEETS and SPACE to cast some serious shade on Musk’s plans around Mars colonisation, with hot takes on implications for Hydroge

Infinite cathedrals vs grandkids in the meatgrinder? Choosing discount rates

Jun 22nd, 2023 1h

Summerupperers, it’s our birrrrtthday and we want to say a giant THANK YOU for listening this past year we’ve been in your ears! You're the reason we started this crazy podcasting adventure - we wanted to create a supportive space for all the c

EU academy adjudicates hydrogen vs. electrification smackdown!

Jun 8th, 2023 1h 19m

Is the recently announced Australia-US Climate, Critical Minerals and Clean Energy Transformation Compact going to mean Australia gets to ride the wave of the subsidy superbonanza Inflation Reduction Act rather than get dumped by it? Perhaps to