QCAT Excellence Day '07

On Friday, Luke & I attended the CSIRO Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT) Innovation & Excellence day for 2007. The conference was attended by industry representatives from the resources sector because a large amount of the conference was revolved around mining & minerals. One of key issues of the day was clean coal technology, and what can be done to minimise atmospheric damage due to specifically the coal industry. The techniques of underground gasification (burning coal underground) & carbon sequestration (putting emissions back into the ground) were some of these. What followed this interesting session was more about minerals processing and new technologies & innovations available in that field. Also, the afternoon included an advanced technology sessions which included such aspects as hypersonics. The day was interesting, and the first sessions especially was interesting as it deals directly with a major assignment at uni.