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    Alan Finkel

    Former Chief Scientist

    Alan Finkel is Former Chief Scientist and led the National Electricity Market Review, the National Hydrogen Strategy, the Low Emissions Technology Roadmap and the Sydney Energy Forum.

    Alan Finkel

    Today

    Powdered lithium: Australia is losing out to other green metal exporters.

    We need overriding public interest test to break approval logjam

    Australia has to look at the global impacts of green projects, not just local ones. The alternative might be stagnation, or worse.

    • 21 mins ago

    December 2023

    In NSW, the latest science syllabus matches some of the higher-performing countries.

    Australia’s science curriculum is not broken

    The performance of science students has stopped declining as resources from private publishers became available to teachers. Investing more in what is working will be far more productive than starting from scratch.

    August 2023

    Given it’s hard to imagine the first operation of small modular reactors before 2040, we must continue our investment in renewables.

    Say no to nuclear, and yes to gas-fired power

    If we convert 90 per cent of our electricity generation to renewables and the rest to gas generators we can focus on climate-change success, rather than failure.

    February 2023

    We already lead the world in the production of unrefined lithium.

    How Australia can become a value-adding renewables superpower

    Our resources industry is dig-and-ship. But global factors mean this country has a once-in-a-century opportunity to be a world-class electrostate that refines its critical minerals before export.