http://www.mrcleantech.com/2009/03/coal-clean-or-otherwise-get-used-to-it/ A dedicated cleantech search engine (try it and suggest other URLs) and blog from a cleantech marketing executive on cleantech people, issues and companies. Contact me on Twitter @mrCleantech Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:54:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.mrcleantech.com/2009/03/coal-clean-or-otherwise-get-used-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-11004 peter logue Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:59:27 +0000 http://www.mrcleantech.com/2009/03/coal-clean-or-otherwise-get-used-to-it/#comment-11004 Willie, I left a comment when I saw your article on the green-tech media blogs site. I'll repeat it here, just in case you didn't see it. and check out the website: www.newgencoal.com.au Firstly, I’ll state that I work for the Australian Coal Association, a body set up with a levy on the industry, to drive technology change, mainly carbon capture and storage. You don’t have to like -ineed you can hate - the coal industry to understand that what Willie says is right. Willie and I both worked in China for many years. Neither China, nor India, nor many parts of eastern europe, nor indonesia, nor parts of africa, nor south america will suddenly decide that their coal resources are too dirty to touch and instead they’ll endure years of energy shortages just so the western world can get its climate change fix. Australia is already working with China, as is Europe and now the new Obama Administration, to help speed up the introduction of Carbon Capture and Storage. If coal is a major part of the problem - and the industry in Australia (the world’s biggest coal exporter) accepts this, then it must be a major part of the solution. To those who just say CCS won’t work, your forbears said the same to the Wright Brothers. It’s a technology fix; it needs more work, more investment and more public support. There’s no doubt it WILL work - and at commercial scale within the next ten years. After that, it comes down to energy economics; if something else - solar, wind, geo-thermal, nuclear, even the mythical fusion - works better and is cheaper and can supply power needs, well that’s what will happen. Those who want all coal-fired power banned immediately, if not sooner, would condemn the citizens of developing countries to poverty and misery. Willie, I left a comment when I saw your article on the green-tech media blogs site. I'll repeat it here, just in case you didn't see it. and check out the website: http://www.newgencoal.com.au
Firstly, I’ll state that I work for the Australian Coal Association, a body set up with a levy on the industry, to drive technology change, mainly carbon capture and storage. You don’t have to like -ineed you can hate – the coal industry to understand that what Willie says is right. Willie and I both worked in China for many years. Neither China, nor India, nor many parts of eastern europe, nor indonesia, nor parts of africa, nor south america will suddenly decide that their coal resources are too dirty to touch and instead they’ll endure years of energy shortages just so the western world can get its climate change fix. Australia is already working with China, as is Europe and now the new Obama Administration, to help speed up the introduction of Carbon Capture and Storage. If coal is a major part of the problem – and the industry in Australia (the world’s biggest coal exporter) accepts this, then it must be a major part of the solution. To those who just say CCS won’t work, your forbears said the same to the Wright Brothers. It’s a technology fix; it needs more work, more investment and more public support. There’s no doubt it WILL work – and at commercial scale within the next ten years. After that, it comes down to energy economics; if something else – solar, wind, geo-thermal, nuclear, even the mythical fusion – works better and is cheaper and can supply power needs, well that’s what will happen. Those who want all coal-fired power banned immediately, if not sooner, would condemn the citizens of developing countries to poverty and misery.

]]> http://www.mrcleantech.com/2009/03/coal-clean-or-otherwise-get-used-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10934 Sarah Lubman Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:35:12 +0000 http://www.mrcleantech.com/2009/03/coal-clean-or-otherwise-get-used-to-it/#comment-10934 Amen, brother! Amen, brother!

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