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BZE radio goes on a listening tour to find out who has done some work, transitioning workers out of coal jobs. This builds on the talk by Bob Massie from Harvard who visited Latrobe and Hunter Valleys as well as the Galilee Basin and found a lot of rehabilitation needs to be done.

Join our guests: Amanda Tattersall from Unions NSW, John Parker from Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, Dave Kerrin - Earthworker Co-Operative, Darren Snell, RMIT University, Tim Gooden Geelong Trades hall and John Rainford - A short History of Social Democracy throw in their two bob's worth.

Paying the Price... Christine Milne

Dr Julian de Hoog is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research - Australia, working on a variety of projects in the energy space, across renewables, storage, and electrified transport. Julian was formerly a Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne and now continues to be involved with the University as an Honorary Research Fellow in graduate student supervision and joint research. His research expertise covers electric vehicles, smart charging, management of distribution networks, and smart grid applications

Aboriginal Community vs Adani coal

Mon 27th April BZE Community Show

This show was broadcast on 20th April 2015

Replacing old power stations and creating Solar neighbourhoods

Peter McKernan presents The Future of Solar & Storage. Battery storage, particularly Lithium technologies, are predicted to see dramatic price reductions in the next couple of years due to economies of scale through Electric Vehicle (EV) production. Peter is a power systems and battery expert, specialising in commercial scale hybrid solar with storage. He has seen the economics become more favouarble as his clients - on both sides of the meter! - need energy storage to maximise the benefits of their solar power, and provide peak shaving, voltage stabilisation, self consumption, tariff optimisation and much more.

Peter McKernan completed a degree in Electronics Engineering at RMIT and an Electrical Apprenticeship at Box hill Technical College. He has completed training in environmental auditing and is a Clean Energy Council accredited designer and installer. He has successfully started, developed and sold three businesses. He has worked in professional audio, power rectifiers, television transmission, construction, mining, manufacturing, power generation and solar systems. 

Peter has been involved in the renewable energy industry since the early eighties. In the early nineties this interest took him to The Middle East, where he demonstrated solar autonomy to people who had no grid. He has worked on a 500KW solar hybrid power system in Kalabakan, Borneo and multiple remote area installations all over Australia. He spent six months at Casey Station in Antarctica where he commissioned the synchronisation system for two 500KW generators. Prior to this he spent ten years manufacturing houseboats at Lake Eildon, Victoria. During this time he developed a range of technologies that enabled these boats to become “five star floating motels” with total solar powered autonomy. He is passionate about science, the environment and renewable energy.   

Time: 6:30 - 8pm Monday 13 April 2015 *

 

McCoy BuildingFritz Loewe Theatre (entry via level 2)University of MelbourneCnr Elgin & Swanston Streets, Carlton

Sophia Bilides sings and plays santouri (Greek hammered dulcimer) and zilia (finger cymbals). Smyrneika songs arose out an urban population where the music of Greeks, Turks, Jews, and Armenians influenced each other in the early decades of the 20th century. This vibrant cultural scene was shattered when conflicts led to the 1922 Asia-Minor Catastrophe. The destruction of the port city of Smyrna (Izmir) led to the expulsion of two million Greeks from their homeland. Fortunately, highly skilled refugee musicians managed to keep alive their urban musical traditions by bringing their cosmopolitan talents to the Greek mainland and to America.Speaker Biography: Sophia Bilides has been called the foremost practitioner of Smyrneika, a cabaret tradition that originated among Greek refugees in Asia Minor. A second-generation Greek-Italian American, Sophia was raised in New Haven, Connecticut, where the refugees of the village of Permata, including her grandparents, had resettled. She grew up absorbing the songs of their generation, heard at weddings, dances, church events, and family gatherings. Despite many other musical influences vying for her attention, Sophia was drawn to the hearfelt and highly ornamented singing style of her Greek Asia-Minor roots. With many of the elders gone by the early 1980s, source material came primarily from her mentor, Dino Pappas, an important collector of early Greek recordings. She also collected songs from community members willing to sing into her tape recorder.

This presentation was at Sydney University on 31 March 2015