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Leon Young commented on Martin Nicholson's blog post 'Can we really replace coal?'

Martin, you draw some extremely tenuous connections. I'm not going to bother responding point by point, but let's just start with your premise...that without coal there would have been no industrial revolution and with that apparently no…

Aug 10, 2009

Can we really replace coal?

“Coal is too cheap.”That was a quote from a keynote address given a few weeks ago at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas by author Kate Grenville titled On Artists, Writers and Climate Change. [www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/07/09/2621185.htm] The quote was from a retired professor of physics who clearly saw the demise of cheap coal as desirable for addressing climate change. He obviously wasn’t an anthropologist or engineer.Two centuries ago there were those who fought against mechanisation.…See More

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Martin Nicholson commented on Eco Investor's blog post 'Australia Has An Obligation To Lead'

Setting aggressive targets that are unrealistic won't make them happen. It only guarantees failure. I am all for reducing our emissions as much as realistically possible but I don't want anarchy on the streets because we have pursued…

Apr 16, 2009

Martin Nicholson commented on Eco Investor's blog post 'Australia Has An Obligation To Lead'

I have no difficulty with Australia taking a "moral" lead through the CPRS. I just wonder at the sense of setting emission reduction targets that we have very little chance of reaching given the anticipated population growth. The ABS is…

Apr 16, 2009

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Zero Carbon Australia plan – more expensive than you think

Posted on September 1, 2010 at 12:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

The renewable energy advocates (and the Greens apparently) must be very pleased. The University of Melbourne in conjunction with Beyond Zero Emission (BZE) have solved all the problems with getting

renewable energy to run our entire electricity network.

Their recent report called Zero…

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Can we really replace coal?

Posted on August 10, 2009 at 10:44am 1 Comment 0 Likes

“Coal is too cheap.”

That was a quote from a keynote address given a few weeks ago at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas by author Kate Grenville titled On Artists, Writers and Climate Change. [www.abc.net.au/tv/fora/stories/2009/07/09/2621185.htm] The quote was from a retired professor of physics who clearly saw the demise of cheap coal as desirable for addressing climate change. He obviously wasn’t an anthropologist or engineer.

Two centuries ago there were those who fought… Continue