Tag: CSIRO

CSIRO-backed hydrogen storage firm raises $7.5m

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Modular hydrogen power bank producer Endua has raised $7.5 million, including from the state-owned Queensland Investment Corporation and returning investor Main Sequence Ventures. The Brisbane-based startup’s hydrogen power banks...

Embracing quantum at an inflection point

Posted on   |  by Professor Elanor Huntington
Henry Ford famously declared, “if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. Over a century on, and it is technologies that exploit quantum...

CSIRO funded for quantum PhDs in research boost

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
National science agency CSIRO has been named the beneficiary of $3.6 million in federal government funding for quantum PhDs promised in the lead up to last year’s election, as...

Data61 puts AI ethics into practice

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
After developing an artificial intelligence ethics framework long before the likes of ChatGPT and BARD, efforts are afoot at the data arm of Australia’s national science agency to help...

On lithium supply chains and the extraction of value

Posted on   |  by David Havyatt
It turns out that the two lightest reactive elements (excluding the noble gas helium), hydrogen and lithium, are central to our energy future, but neither is an energy source....

Huge renewable storage leap needed to make net-zero: CSIRO

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Renewable energy storage will need significant investment if Australia is to meet its net-zero emissions target, according to the CSIRO, which has predicted a potential 14-fold increase in required...