The feds have quietly kicked-in $1m for Brown Coal Innovation Australia to continue its work on, “low-emissions, low-cost, coal technologies and novel, high-value products derived from brown coal.” BCIA is a partnership of coal companies, CSIRO plus Monash and Federation universities. Fed U took over Monash’s campus in the La Trobe Valley, brown coal capital of the country a couple of years back.

Not that Monash U will need any of the output. The university is committed to being entirely powered by “clean and renewable” energy by 2030.