As a result of his recent tour of China, Kevin Rudd announced that Australia will be investing $63 billion of it’s $94 billion allocation to Australian- China joint activity on climate change, into clean-coal technology.
As reported on in today’s Australian, “The fact that Australia is the world’s largest coal-exporting country, and that China is the world’s largest coal-consuming country, presents both of us with a fundamental responsibility to act in this area of critical technology,” said Mr Rudd.
Coal is black, brown and dirty. It provides our fair country and others with enough the electrical energy to function, prosper and grow. However, for all it’s attributes one thing coal certainly isn’t is clean. Neither are the carbon gases it omits when burnt.
One of Australia’s leading scientists Tim Flannery wrote an article for the Herald Sun last year explaining that Australia’s geological conditions could not successfully support geosequestration (clean coal) technology, “Locally in Australia because of particular geological issues and because of the competition from cleaner and cheaper energy alternatives, I’m not 100 per cent sure clean coal is going to work out for our domestic market, ” said Dr Flannery.
What happened to further development and investment into green and renewable energy technology?
There’s still no such thing as clean coal
