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A pile of cut tree trunks.

This feature article discusses competition between biofuels and alternative markets in the Australian context.

  • Housing development adjacent to agricultural production.  The growing demand for land by these two uses requires considered planning to achieve on-going sustainability in Australia.

    CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (CSE) conducts research and development across a range of landscapes, targeting social, economic and environmental sustainability.

  • Wind turbine

    The Energy Transformed Flagship is developing clean affordable energy and transport technologies for a sustainable future - the first steps towards a hydrogen economy.

  • Close up of car wheel.

    CSIRO’s alternative transport fuels research explores the feasibility of alternatives to traditional fuel types, such as petrol or diesel, and looks at the possible biophysical, social and economic impacts of their production and adoption.

  • Close up of pylons.

    The Energy Transformed Flagship's research will accelerate the development and uptake of low emission distributed energy systems in Australia’s energy industry.

  • Electricity infrastructure power lines.

    We use ESM to determine the impact of potential future events, policies and technology breakthroughs on the uptake of new technologies in electricity generation and road transport.

  • Wind turbine.

    This video raises issues surrounding low emission distributed generation systems and how they will challenge our ideas about energy supply and where we generate power. (0:30)

  • Smoke coming from a chimney.

    The Flagship’s work in the area of low emission electricity centres upon the generation of ‘near-zero greenhouse gas’ electricity. (0:38)

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