Energy, Mining & Resources
Generating abundant clean energy is essential for sustainable living. So too is the efficient supply of critical minerals. So we’re enhancing both. From exploration to delivery; for our homes, businesses and industry.
Matching world-class research expertise in earth sciences, mining engineering and artificial intelligence with broader strengths in science, economics and social planning, we’re finding better ways to power our world.
Impact stories
Waves to watts: converting wave power to electricity
Climate change and coastal erosion are two big, intractable problems facing Australia. Fortunately, the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s wave power research group offers an innovative approach to solve both issues.Ìý
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Growing the graphene industry
With the goal of developing a sustainable graphene-based industry in Australia and world-wide, the team at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s ARC Graphene Research Hub has made several significant breakthroughs in graphene manufacturing and utilisation.
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Renewable energy
The Discovery Pod | Season 1, Episode 6Ìý
Cracking the code – finding new ways to power our nation and drive the manufacturing economy.
Professorial Lecture Series: Assoc. Prof. Carl Spandler
Unearthing rare earths: Why mining critical metals is vital to our future, and why Australia is well placed to profit.
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Harnessing low cost, sustainable, activated carbon from waste
In what is believed to be a world-first, an Adelaide-based start-up has developed a new, low cost, sustainable method of producing activated carbon.
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What's really going on during fracking
How do fluids such as water, gas and petroleum move in the earth?
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Solar thermal for mineral processing
It is a fact that in a country like Australia, dominated by the primary production of commodities such as iron ore, copper and alumina, the industrial processes that produce these for export account for around half of our energy consumption.
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Solar for hydrogen production
Imagine 10 years from today,Ìýan underground mine, where waste water is continuouslyÌýpumped out to keep it dry. ³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers are looking into ways to build a better world, andÌýturn this nuisance into a fuel source through hydrogen fuelled vehicles!ÌýÌý
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ÌýPh.D. is a civil and environmental engineering full professor and the Director, Institute forÌýSustainability, Energy and ResourcesÌý(ISER).
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