Two of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces are how will we feed ourselves when the weather gets crazy and where will we get reliable, low carbon energy. A project in Port Augusta, South Australia appears to offer a partial answer to both of these problems. Producing 15,000 tons of pesticide-free tomatoes with virtually no fresh water in a giant concentrated solar plant with 23,000 mirrors which turns a million liters of sea water a day into steam and producing both renewable electricity for the greenhouse operation as fresh water for irrigating the tomatoes. That’s not the only dispatch from the future though. The RAC intellibus in Perth, is a low speed, fixed route vehicle for now—is billed as Australia’s first automated vehicle trial.
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