Natural energy to help power exploration of the universe

摘要

The CSIRO will receive 47.3 million dollars from the Federal Government for the development of solar and geothermal energy technologies to power a radio-astronomy observatory and its supporting computer centre. The Sustainable Energy for SKA facility will be funded through the Sustainability Round of the Government's Education Investment Fund (EIF). The funding will support renewable energy infrastructure projects for the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory and the Pawsey High-Performance Computing Centre for SKA Science in Perth. CSIRO chief executive, Dr Megan Clark said the new project will accelerate the development of renewable energy technologies in Australia. 'The Sustainable Energy for SKA project will fund solar and photovoltaic technology to help power the Murchison site and the nation's largest direct heat geothermal demonstrator to cool the Pawsey Centre supercomputer," Dr Clark said.