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Al Gore’s serious doubts on viability of ‘clean coal’

clean-coal-not-the-answer-gore The Age ANNE DAVIES, WASHINGTON 6 Nov

AUSTRALIA should not bank on being able to reduce its greenhouse emissions by storing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants, US climate advocate Al Gore has said.

A day after The Age revealed plans by the Brumby Government to gamble on “clean coal” technology in Victoria, Mr Gore expressed serious doubt about its viability and said Australia’s focus should instead be on renewable energy.

“I think a country like Australia probably has more usable and profitable sources of renewable energy than any other nation,” Mr Gore said in an interview with The Age.

“You have desert areas, abundant sunlight within tens of kilometres of most of your major cities.

“You have the ability to construct an Australian super-grid that will transmit that solar and wind and geothermal power straight to the cities . . . and in the process create lots of good new jobs.”…………”What should be discarded is any illusion that (carbon capture and storage) will be available any time soon at a scale large enough to make a dent in our CO2 emissions,” he said……………..http://www.theage.com.au/world/clean-coal-not-the-answer-gore-20091105-hz4k.html

November 6, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, energy | antinuclear, Australia, climate change, climate change - global warming, energy