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Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection, and Conservation are subjects very dear to my heart, and I have also written a range of articles, several very lengthy reports, conducted a community meeting, and travelled to visit a Renewable Energy research installation and various commercial remewable energy farms - see the information / links below for a selection of some of this material.

By publishing this information on my web page, I have revealed far, far more about my personal life and my activities than I ever have before on the internet. I am a "quiet achiever" by nature, and prefer to "play my cards very close to my chest", so such public revelations - especially on the law-less internet - do make me nervous.

However, I believe that people need to act to try and change governments and highlight the non-sustainable way in which many people are living their lives.

Below are some documents, articles, and lecture slides that I have written and developed in relation to Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection, and Conservation.

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• You can download a ZIP file of ALL of my articles, presentations, reports, etc that are linked below by clicking here. (ZIP, 1.5 MB)

Relevant "Previous WEB Page Changes"

On my Moose O'Malley's Software Valley web page, I have spoken about my views and activities concerning Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection, Conservation, including:

• 9-Dec-2005 - Jimmy Carter's speech televised on April 18, 1977.

• 28-Nov-2005 - Peak Oil on ABC's Catalyst.

• 2-Feb-2005 - Holidays - 5-Feb-2005 to 4-Mar-2005.

• 20-Dec-2004 - Environment, Conservation, Peak Oil, and Clean Energy.

News Paper / Magazine Articles

I have written various articles on Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection, Conservation - all of these subjects are very dear to my heart.

These articles have been submitted to local newspapers, such as The Morning Bulletin, Capricornia News, Courier Mail, The Mountain Echo, etc, and various magazines, such as ReNew Magazine, Home Power magazine, etc.

So far, only one newspaper has published any of my articles - a local, small town newspaper for Mount Morgan called The Mountain Echo.

UPDATE: Sadly, this newspaper went out of business back in mid-2005. I have been reassured that my articles weren't the prime cause ... ;)

Article Name	Publication	Date / Issue
1. My New Column (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 11, 2nd June 2005
2. Where are all the Wind Farms ?? - Part 1 (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 10, 19th May 2005
3. Where are all the Wind Farms ?? - Part 2 (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 12, 16th June 2005
4. Peak Oil - Part 1 (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 13, 30th June 2005
5. Peak Oil - Part 2 (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 14, 14th July 2005
6. The Electricity Situation in Australia – Part 1 (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 15
7. Farewell Andrew, So Long Mountain Echo (PDF)	The Mountain Echo	Volume 2 Issue 16
8. DRAFT - Solar Power and Stirling Engines (PDF)	DRAFT - Work in Progress	Not yet published ...

UPDATE: Sadly, this newspaper went out of business back in mid-2005. I have been reassured that my articles weren't the prime cause ... ;)

Neighbourhood Meeting - June 6, 2004

After more than 3 years of searching for a suitable clean energy farm site, I found and purchased a near-perfect 100 acre site in May, 2004 with the sole aim of setting up my own grid connected clean energy farm. This property satisfied all 19 of my criteria for a clean energy farm site.

On June 6, 2004, I conducted a community meeting of the 30 closest neighbouring properties to try and get people interested in helping the environment and taking part in projects for the generation of renewable energy. I was hoping to turn the local area into the Clean Energy Capital of Central Queensland, Australia. At this meeting, I discussed the pros and cons and details of more than a dozen forms of clean, renewable electricity generation, and emphasised that I was mostly interested in those that had the lowest possible risks to bats, birds and animals, and presented the lowest possible noise and visual impacts.

Sadly, the community response from this meeting was very disappointing. Property owners / residents from only 4 out of the 30 properties invited turned up, and most of these were negative about the whole "clean energy farm" idea. Most of those who attended claimed that they were all for saving the environment, but they didn't want anything in or near their back yards. Good old NIMBY syndrome ( (Not in My Back Yard) had raised it's ugly head.

One guy, who was particularly ignorant, nasty and spoiling for a fight at this meeting, said that if I even put one solar panel on my barn's roof, then he would go to the council and put in complaints about me "industrialising the countryside". Such is life - sadly, people like this do exist on our planet ...

Below is the flyer I personally delivered to all 30 neighbouring properties about 2-3 weeks prior to the meeting, and the lecture slides / material I presented on a big screen to those who turned up.

I was very dissappointed and sad for a short while following this meeting, but I certainly have NOT given up.

1. Neighbourhood Meeting - June 6, 2004 - Flyer (PDF)

2. Neighbourhood Meeting - June 6, 2004 - Lecture Slides (PDF)

Trip Reports

Here is the trip report of my visit to a renewable energy installation. This report was distributed to all staff in the faculty.

Trip / Destination	Date
1. PSA Spain Trip Report (PDF)	15-Feb-2005

Renewable Energy in Computer Games

Combining two of my passions, computer games and renewable energy, my special report is coming soon ... Actually, make that "eventually" ;)

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