This week Minister Martin Ferguson releases his long awaited Draft Energy White Paper, for comment by “stakeholders”, a modest little holiday read of 329 pages. Here’s a useful summary, that emphasis is on large, centralised power stations converted to gas, with renewables only considered if they “become” viable:
www.theage.com.au/national/dirty-power-plant-rules-abandoned
Meanwhile Google leads by example by cancelling it’s funding of R&D(!) because renewables are already viable. Funding now goes to deployment, deployment, deployment!:
contributed by Bernie McComb
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