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Nuclear unnecessary: gas is the transition to renewables

Coal and nuclear just hot air, the immediate answer is gas Sydney Morning Herald PADDY MANNING October 17, 2009 People are looking for a cleaner energy source, one they can believe in, and enough to keep the lights on and power electric cars and desalination plants by 2050, when Australia’s population will be 35 million.

Everybody knows clean coal will not cut it, and that is why the only person willing to spend real money on it is the federal Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson………………….

Nuclear – It is just not necessary. At the risk of stating the obvious, gas is the key to making the essential, rapid transition to a completely renewable energy supply. With reserves offshore in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria, and coal seam gas in Queensland, Australia has gas in abundance……………..

There is no doubting the benefits of a switch to gas, as part of a transition to renewables. Mark Wakeham of Environment Victoria says converting Hazelwood to gas could be done in two years and would reduce plant emissions by 75 per cent, from 17 million tonnes to just 4 million tonnes of CO2 a year, and greatly reducing water use.

It would cut Victoria’s emissions by more than 10 per cent in one fell swoop.

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October 17, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, energy | antinuclear, Australia, climate change, climate change - global warming, energy, renewable, reneweable energy