Layar, the future of reality augmentation for Perth


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Our solar future in Western Australia

It's coming! A roofscape of solar panels are likely to emerge over the sky line in every Western Australian metropolitan suburb. Driven by frightening energy price rises, falling solar array costs and green energy rebates, consumers are highly likely to embrace a solar future. The embrace of this solar future will have a cascading effect on the use of battery driven transport. Why not use your solar array to power your transport as well as your home, office or factory?

 


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Square Kilometer Array radio telescope coming to Western Australia

The bidding war is still underway between Western Australia & South Africa for the rights to build the most sophisticated radio telescope ever. The $2.5 billion device will be 100 times nore sensitive than any radio telescope built so far and will be backed and funded by a 19 country consortium.

The SKA radio  telescope will either be built in the Karoo or south west region of South Africa or in the mid west of Western Australia. The federal government has already committed $80 million to the Australian National Centre of SKA Science in Perth. The centre is a joint inititive involving both federal & state governments, University of Western Australia, Curtin University and CSIRO, and will be used for super computing purposes.

 

 


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Follow C2030 on Twitter

Follow both the Broome & Perth Community 2030 summits on Twitter. Click here to signup to follow

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Government media release regarding C2030

Brendon Grylls, Minister for Regional Development in Western Australia, put out a media release to highlight the C2030 summit and said the Community 2030 (C2030) Summit had been developed to engage community, government, industry and business in ‘big picture’ dialogues, ranging from the city foreshore to housing affordability in Broome.

Mr Grylls said the summits would also drill down into the actions and resources needed to get the projects moving.

“The summits offer a real opportunity to guide and support planning for community infrastructure in Western Australia,” he said.

“C2030 is about asking the tough questions, thinking outside traditional parameters and really listening to what the people of WA want in terms of everything from transport to community infrastructure, like recreational facilities.

 “It’s also about looking long term to ensure future generations, both in the metropolitan area and the regions, can grow and prosper.”
Read the full C2030 Media Release here


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Taxi for the Future - how you might travel in Perth circa 2020

Student designer Lucaciu from the Melbourne RMIT University has invisioned the taxi of the future which will be enviromentally friendly, runnning on hydrogen and sport the very latest in technology enhancements. The vehicle has been carefully designed to address the needs of the typical Aussie passenger.

With all modern car accessories in place, which include GPS, night riding system, passenger entertainment system, information hub, Smart Card system and disability access, the taxi doesn’t pollute the environment in any way. The vehicle is propelled by hydrogen fuel cells and an electric motor that gets its fuel from roof-mounted solar cells. The electric batteries can also be recharged in a more conventional way by plugging the vehicle into a wall socket.


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Comment: Get real, drug czars - New Scientist article

ELEVEN years ago, the UN pledged to win the war on drugs within a decade. It has failed.

At this year's meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, held in Vienna in March, there was a two-day session to evaluate the progress since 1998. In his opening remarks, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, claimed "measurable progress". The drug problem has been "contained", he said, and drug use has "stabilised".

Costa's position flies in the face of the evidence, and by the end of the meeting he was on the defensive. But he said the goal remains the same, and he reiterated the UN's position: that the choice for the world's nations is either to apply strict prohibition or concede to total legalisation.

Soon after the meeting, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, acknowledged the failure to stamp out poppy farming in Afghanistan. Of the US expenditure of over $800 million a year on counter-narcotics, Holbrooke said: "We have gotten nothing out of it, nothing."

Those in charge of the world's drug control system seem more committed to maintaining the existing policy than to addressing its failures. International discussions on the subject have become absurd, and nowhere is this more apparent than with cannabis. Although cannabis amounts to perhaps 80 per cent of total global illicit drug use, there was scarcely any mention of it in Vienna. Read on about the failed drug war


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Smiths Beach Development to proceed

Canals Rocks Pty Ltd has been granted approval to move ahead with their combined tourism & residential project at Smiths Beach in the South West of Western Australia. This project is smaller than an initial project submitted to the Busselton Shire over nine years ago. The initial project design was mired in controversy due to its' size and held back by both the council & the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Community 2030 Summit to focus on the future of Western Australia

The 2030 summit will focus on Western Australia's future infrastructure and take a look at what the Western Australian community will look like in 2030 .

 


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Population in Western Australia to Grow Rapidly

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicate that the population of Westenr Australia grew by a staggering 66,000 over the past 12 months.

Local government and councils are preparing to accomodate future population growth of more than 300,000 people in Western Australia by 2015. This growth will put pressure on roads, schools and other community facilities as well ascreate a significant increase in demand for land and residential accomodation.

 


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