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Money into ‘clean coal’ better spent on renewables

Clean coal: miracle or furphy? 17 November 2009 SBS World News Technology ‘will be ready too late’ Mark Diesendorf, from the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales, says clean coal won’t be commercially available before the early 2020s.“The recent report on ‘The Future of Coal’ by an expert interdisciplinary group at MIT envisages that the technology will start to make a noticeable contribution on a global scale around 2025 and may overtake renewable energy around 2045,” Mr Diesendorf said.

“Clearly, Australia would be foolish to delay energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, which could be implemented now, until such time as coal with CCS may be commercially available,” he said.”With the huge amounts of money being invested in coal power with CCS, several pilot plants will be constructed around the world before 2020, but these will be a long way from safe, proven, commercially available systems”.

World News Australia – Clean coal: miracle or furphy?

November 19, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, energy | Australia, climate change, climate change - global warming, energy, renewable, reneweable energy