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Explore advancements in concrete that reduce its carbon for print

2025-02-12 00:14:54 UTC

Bashmakov, I.A., L.J. Nilsson, A. Acquaye, C. Bataille, J.M. Cullen, S. de la Rue du Can, M. Fischedick, Y. Geng, K. Tanaka, 2022: Industry. In IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [P.R. Shukla, J. Skea, R. Slade, A. Al Khourdajie, R. van Diemen, D. McCollum, M. Pathak, S. Some, P. Vyas, R. Fradera, M. Belkacemi, A. Hasija, G. Lisboa, S. Luz, J. Malley, (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. doi: 10.1017/9781009157926.013

Explore the advancements, use and benefits of computer aided design (CAD) in engineering.

2025-02-16 05:12:30 UTC

The Business Research Company. (2025). Computer Aided Design (CAD) Software Global Market Report 2025. https://www.thebusinessresearchcompany.com/report/computer-aided-design-cad-software-global-market-report

Explore statistics relating to the value of total building work completed from Sep 2016 through to Sep 2024.

2025-02-20 02:44:15 UTC

According to the research (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2024) we can determine that the value of building work has been fluctuating but has remained on an upwards trend from Sep 2016 through to Sep 2024. Interpreting the table above, there has been a 2m increase in the value of total building work completed.

References

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2024). Building Activity, Australia, September 2024. ABS. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-activity-australia/sep-2024#value-of-work-done

Dylan Lees (Teaching Team)

2025-05-06 23:43:31 UTC

Looking forward to hearing what data really stood out to you. Share with others and tell us what it means.

Angelique - Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Renewable, Nuclear, and Fossil Fuel Technologies

2025-05-07 02:14:17 UTC

This graph from the IPCC’s Special Report (2011) compares the full lifecycle emissions of different electricity sources.

Moomaw, W., et al. (2011). IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. Cambridge University Press. Figure 1.13. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srren/

Stewart - Employment within Renewable Energy Sector.

2025-05-11 23:11:01 UTC

According to the Bureau of Statistics, Employment in Australia's large scale, photovoltaic solar energy sector more than doubled (210 per cent) in 2017-18.

ABS Director for the Centre of Environmental and Satellite Accounts, Jonathon Khoo, said: “Across Australia, in 2017-18, the number of full time equivalent (FTE) jobs related to renewable energy activity grew by 28 per cent to a total of 17,740 FTE jobs."

"Over this period, we saw large scale solar projects - systems with an installed capacity of 100 kilowatts or greater - overtake hydroelectric power to become the second largest creator of renewable jobs, accounting for 16 per cent of jobs," Mr Khoo said.

"However, rooftop solar continues to be the main driver of employment in the sector, accounting for 46 per cent of jobs in in 2017-18."

Employment in Renewable Energy Activities, Australia, 2017-18 financial year

Impact of smart farming technologies

2025-05-13 20:18:46 UTC

According to Balafoutis et al. (2020), there willl be decrease in emmissions and increase in economic revenue. 60% stated that there will be a increase in revenue and 20% stated that there will be a large increase in revenue. This may be caused by the decrease in crop wastage and the decrease of inputs like irrigation, pesticides, fertilizer and labour.

References

Balafoutis, A. T., Evert, F. K. V., & Fountas, S. (2020). Smart Farming Technology Trends: Economic and Environmental Effects, Labor Impact, and Adoption Readiness. Agronomy, 10(5), 743. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10050743

Matt - Explore advancements in concrete that reduce its carbon footprint

2025-05-15 11:22:53 UTC

This graph represents the top countries with the highest CO2 emission annually from the cement industry between 2005-2020. In 2020, China and India accounted for an estimated 35% of the global CO2 emissions with the UK, Germany and France contributing only 4% combined.

Barbhuiya, S., Das, B. B., Adak, D., Kanish, K., & Tabish, M. (2025) Low carbon concrete: Advancements, challenges and future directions in sustainable construction. Discover Concrete and Cement, 1, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44416-025-00002-y

Cal - Australia's Underutilised Solar Potential

2025-05-18 05:03:53 UTC

Despite Australia's sunny climate, in 2017–18, solar power contributed only 0.3% to Australia’s total electricity generation. This highlights its relatively small role in energy production at the time despite growing interest in renewables.

Reference:
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2019). Energy use and electricity generation, Australia, 2017–18. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/energy/energy-use-and-electricity-generation-australia/2017-18

2025-05-20 08:12:23 UTC

according to ABS (2024), 50% of australia's terestrial landscape is desert ecosystem, terestrial realm coms47%, marine realm 47% and rivers and streams stretch 4.3 million km length.

references

australia bureau of statistics (2025). National Ecosystem Accounts, experimental estimates, 2020-21 financial year. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/environment/environmental-management/national-ecosystem-accounts-experimental-estimates/2020-21