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Herald Sun Friday 29/8/2008 Page: 7 AUSTRALIANS continue to lead the world on creating emissions from burning coal, pumping the equivalent of 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year per person, a global study has shown. The Centre for Global Development, a Washington think-tank, yesterday also revealed Australia is the planet"s eighth biggest carbon polluter. The study of emissions from 50,000 coal-tired power stations put China, the US, India, Russia, Germany, Japan and Britain ahead of Australia in total carbon dioxide output. But each Australian produced almost the same amount of emissions as Americans - 9.5 tonnes per person - and Indians - 0.6 tonnes - combined. The Chinese produced just 2.4 tonnes per person a year, but this year outstripped the US as the biggest emitter. According to the study, which draws on the Carbon Monitoring for Action databank, Victoria"s Loy Yang A, Hazelwood and Yallourn power stations are among Australia"s dirtiest. Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson yesterday told the first meeting of the National Low Emissions Coal Council that developing carbon capture and storage technology was a priority. "Clearly, no serious response to climate change can ignore the need to reduce emissions from Australia"s coal-tired electricity generation sector," a spokesman for Mr Ferguson said. Coal produced about 80 per cent of Australia"s electricity and about a third of its greenhouse gas emissions, he said. Climate Positive research director Matthew Wright said: "We should ... move away from using coal by retrofitting as many generators as we can to make ... power from gas, as a first step, while we roll out renewable energy infrastructure." |
Recycling Waste Heat Via CogenerationSolve Climate has an interesting post on cogeneration in the US and the - Co-Generation: Clean as Wind, Reliable as Coal. The title isn"t strictly true - while it can improve the efficiency of many forms of power generation, CHP... Read more Coal | | Saturday, 13 September 2008 |
Our coal emissions are worstHerald SunFriday 29/8/2008 Page: 7AUSTRALIANS continue to lead the world on creating emissions from burning coal, pumping the equivalent of 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year per person, a global study has shown. The Centre for Global Development, a... Read more Coal | | Septemberonday, 15 September 2008 |
Hawaii Swaps Coal Power Plant for Biomass Power plants swapping their coal for renewable fuel sources seems to be a growing trend, and Hawaii looks to add this idea to the host of other sustainable practices the state has been implementing. Hawaii has just finished a... Read more Coal | | TUSEDAY, 2 September 2008 |
ETS to make coal plant "white elephant"AustralianTuesday 26/8/2008 Page: 4THE proposed federal emissions trading scheme would turn a $750 million Chinese-backed Victorian power station into a taxpayer-funded white elephant, according to legal advice. Lawyers acting for a coalition of environment groups have told the state and... Read more Coal | | Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
Clean Loy Yang costs huge Herald SunWednesday 27/8/2008 Page: 62THE boss of one of Victoria"s biggest power plants says it will be "very, very tough" for the state"s brown coal-fired electricity generators to cut carbon output by 20 per cent by 2020 to meet Rudd... Read more Coal | | Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
Reliance on coal could scuttle usAgeFriday 18/7/2008 Page: 13It would be shortsighted of Australia to rely on coal and not other energy sources.THE Rudd Government"s green paper on a "carbon pollution reduction scheme", and the methods to achieve this reduction, have some strongly innovative elements.... Read more Coal | | Augustonday, 11 August 2008 |
A huge bet on coal seam gasBG"s drawn out takeover attempt for Origin Energy has finally bitten the dust, with Origin instead selling a large stake in its coal seam methane (coal seam gas) assets to Conoco Phillips, with the gas destined for a large LNG... Read more Coal | | Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
Coal-fired stations too risky, says AGLSydney Morning HeraldThursday 21/8/2008 Page: 4ONE OF the country"s largest electricity suppliers has said buying the state"s coal-fired stations ranks as a low priority because of the financial risks of carbon emissions trading. The managing director of AGL Energy, Michael... Read more Coal | | TUSEDAY, 9 September 2008 |
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