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From the Sydney Morning Herald
Australian environment and union groups want the federal government to follow the green lead of US President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed massive economic recovery package.
Reforms to double alternative energy production over three years, modernise federal buildings and improve the energy efficiency of two million American homes were among reforms announced by Obama on Thursday.
Thousands of ordinary Australians will form a human chain around Parliament House in Canberra on February 3rd to inisst that the government honour its election promise to significantly reduce Australia’s greenhouse emissions. Treasury estimates revealed last week that the Rudd government’s proposed emissions trading scheme will actually increase emissions by 5.84 percent. Tim Colebatch wrote Continue Reading →
WE ALL think the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme will cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 5 per cent relative to 2000 levels — right? No, we’re wrong.
Treasury modelling estimates that even with a cleaner, more effective model than the one now adopted, Australia’s emissions in 2020 would rise 5.8 per cent above 2000 levels. We would pump out more emissions in 2020 than we do now.
US solar power generator, Sun Edison, has announced a contract that gives it the right to harvest the energy from 200 shopping mall rooves covering 30 million square feet across 24 states of America. The potential power generation capacity is estimated to be 259 megawatts but it is unlikely that the full capacity will be taken up. It is expected that the shopping mall management will harness the power for common use areas and will resell the electricity to store owners as an option in their tenancy arrangements.
The Huanen Beijing co-generation power plant is not the shining advertisement for clean coal that advocates claim, according to Thomas R Blakeslee in Renewable Energy World last week. Australian carbon capture and storage technology has been installed at the plant and 3,300 tonnes of carbon dioxide are captured annually and sold to soft drink manufacturers. Continue Reading →
by Thomas R. Blakeslee, Clearlight Foundation
About six months ago, I presented a paper at the The China Power & Alternative Energy Summit. It was the first time that geothermal was represented at this important conference, which has so far been dominated by wind and solar presentations.
We assembled an excellent panel of presenters from Australia, Germany, Iceland and the U.S. The title of my paper was Can Geothermal Replace Coal for Baseload Power? I was delighted to find that the program included a field trip to the local coal power plant, which is a model of cleanliness and efficiency.