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IPCC, Resources

Video memories – in mid 2009 Prime Minster Rudd announces $400million for carbon capture and storage

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Thanks to Michael Smith – Hear Kev747 talking 150 days before ClimateGate and Copenhagen – I just wonder how these mega $millions of our hard earned cash were spent – fascinating. Kev’s GCSI seems to live on at least on the www – quote – The Institute was established in 2009 with initial funding from … Continue reading Video memories – in mid 2009 Prime Minster Rudd announces $400million for carbon capture and storage →

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Australian Government Emissions Reduction Fund Green Paper says carbon capture & storage CCS is “not commercial”

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The 2014 Green Paper an be downloaded and read from here – If you search the pdf file – at the bottom of pdf page 18/67 (page 12 in a paper copy) CCS is referred to as “not yet commercial” [Other opportunities reflect technologies that are not yet commercial, such as carbon capture and storage…] … Continue reading Australian Government Emissions Reduction Fund Green Paper says carbon capture & storage CCS is “not commercial” →

News and Views, Resources

“Carbon Capture and Burial – a Stupid Answer to a Silly Question.”

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By Viv Forbes, Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition. 7th May 2009 The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian Federal Parliament to stop playing Global Warming politics and focus instead on the irresponsible damage being contemplated by the Cap-N-Tax promises. In testimony this week to the New Zealand Parliamentary Enquiry into the ETS, … Continue reading “Carbon Capture and Burial – a Stupid Answer to a Silly Question.” →

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News from the world of carbon farming – Charleville property sold up by bank despite carbon farming project

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Trying to understand this – Heartache as carbon credits turn to debt – however I take it they did not incur the $2.6million debt through carbon farming. If you Google the headline it might get you through paywall. The article says – “They planned to earn up to $400,000 every three years in valuable carbon … Continue reading News from the world of carbon farming – Charleville property sold up by bank despite carbon farming project →

IPCC, News and Views, Resources

Australian Govt carbon reduction scheme “dead in the water” – setback for IPCC

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Image by davesag via Flickr News reports are building that the Australian Government will never achieve meaningful reduction of carbon emissions. Professor Ross Garnaut, author of the recent influential report pointing the way for the Australian Governments Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), is now saying it is a “line ball call” whether to dump the Rudd … Continue reading Australian Govt carbon reduction scheme “dead in the water” – setback for IPCC →

Renewable Energy, Resources

Breakthrough turning CO2 into a clean-burning formate fuel using partially oxidized atomic cobalt layers

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This research by Chinese scientists in Hefei is reported in Nature – Partially oxidized atomic cobalt layers for carbon dioxide electroreduction to liquid fuel and Popular Mechanics – Breakthrough Material Is a Better Way To Turn CO2 Into Clean-Burning Fuel. Could a process such as this be a basis for making CCS (Carbon Capture & … Continue reading Breakthrough turning CO2 into a clean-burning formate fuel using partially oxidized atomic cobalt layers →

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Puzzle of the missing cap rock at the “Flagship” South West Hub CCS Project near Collie Western Australia

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Tom Harley at his Pindan Post blog – sequestering scientific stupidity… – found this fascinating story dated 31 Jan 2014 – Prospective carbon capture site lacks ceiling – Reading a bit deeper into the origins of this I find this article at the CO2CRC – South West Hub Project, Western Australia (CCS Flagship Project) Talking … Continue reading Puzzle of the missing cap rock at the “Flagship” South West Hub CCS Project near Collie Western Australia →

Renewable Energy, Resources

Terry McCrann eviscerates renewables – again

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ReNu’s solar fantasy crashes and burns Terry McCrann, Business Columnist, 7:49PM August 2, 2019 Two years ago our — and also “their”, as in “their ABC’s” — Alan Kohler exhorted us to see the future in renewable energy. The poster child of that future nominated by Kohler was, as he put it, a “little company … Continue reading Terry McCrann eviscerates renewables – again →

Renewable Energy, Resources

ANAO torpedoes Kevin Rudd’s Clean Coal & CCS after $450Mill spent

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We canned “CCS” years ago when it was deserved. Video memories and Puzzle of the missing cap rock But it is interesting that near a decade after Kev747 kicked off his Global CCS Institute – CO2 from Vic coal fired electricity (CarbonNet Project) apparently can not be pumped into nearby empty oil and gas reservoirs … Continue reading ANAO torpedoes Kevin Rudd’s Clean Coal & CCS after $450Mill spent →