Something to be ashamed of!

[Trishia]

This is something Australia should be part of!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-17/2 ... 30/9161056

How could our Politicians be so STUPID?/
We have that ratbag Abbot to blame for this.
When will they learn??????

[Slapsy]

Turnbull was going to change things? About all he has going for him,at the moment,is his smile.

[Perrorist]

It's a tragedy, and future generations will be the ones to suffer.

[Biggdad]

we should do what the majority of the world is doing, not paying mindless subsidies while other countries use & build
modern clean coal generators
Read this

http://joannenova.com.au/2017/07/coal-b ... easing-43/

and this.

http://joannenova.com.au/2017/07/pop-qu ... subsidies/

[Perrorist]

Clean coal is an oxymoron. Coal is carbon. No matter how you extract and use it, carbon dioxide is emitted, which is harmful to our current environment.

[grandduke]

But, coal provides baseload electricity and you can bet
your life if the lights went out there would be a riot.
Soooooo until renewables can fill that gap coal it is
folks unless they want to go nuclear.

[Perrorist]

Baseload doesn't require coal, and certainly not new coal mines. Gas is already used for baseload. Meanwhile, storage technology is roaring ahead with higher capacity batteries and pumped hydro.

[Biggdad]

Clean coal is an oxymoron. Coal is carbon. No matter how you extract and use it, carbon dioxide is emitted, which is harmful to our current environment.

Big P; have you read the article & have you seen or visited an aluminium smelter.
The experts still haven't come up with a way to get rid of old solar panels & lithium batteries safely.
When you look at between 500 > 1000 kilo old car batteries per car, this adds up to a lot of dangerous waste!

[Dreamweaver]

I can understand though not agree with those who favour keeping coal fired generation to fill a supposed gap. The gap is disappearing, and
unless we keep up we think last year's knowledge is still current. (That applies to many fields!) But for the life of me I can't understand the
push for new coal-fired generators, let alone new mines! Yes, I know of hearts being wrung by the plight of so many poor in India who need
electricity now. But . . .

[Dreamweaver]

Big P; have you read the article & have you seen or visited an aluminium smelter.
The experts still haven't come up with a way to get rid of old solar panels & lithium batteries safely.
When you look at between 500 > 1000 kilo old car batteries per car, this adds up to a lot of dangerous waste!

Not just old solar panels and lithium batteries, either, but much older technology. Anything with rare earth, (think magnets) lead and acid is harmful to the environment. Only recently has a way been found to recycle rare earth. http://mashable.com/2017/06/20/urban-mi ... nJCbcqpOqJ

These problems have always existed, but while still invisible we can't start working on a solution. For how long have we been putting older type batteries into land-fill?

Batteries are made up of heavy metals and other toxic elements, including nickel, cadmium, alkaline, mercury, nickel metal hydride, and lead acid. It is these elements that can threaten our environment if not properly discarded and/or recycled.

Unfortunately, batteries which end up in landfills and incinerators leak into the environment, causing a serious health risk to humans and animals.

Surprisingly, Australia does not currently have a national recycling scheme for non-rechargeable batteries.

As a result, leading members of the battery industry have recently joined together to investigate the initiation of a national battery collection and recycling scheme. At the moment, the only batteries that can be recycled in the country are lead-acid batteries (used in cars). All other types of batteries are either sent to local landfills or shipped to be recycled overseas.

http://www.cleanup.org.au/au/Factsheets/batteries.html

So 'getting rid' of something might not depend on restoring elements to their original condition and site, but in recycling. Metals inside batteries can be valuable and many recyclers will pay for old batteries.

I think of the journey we have come with paper since its invention.

Contents
1 Issues
1.1 Air pollution
1.2 Water pollution
1.3 Paper Waste
1.4 Wood pulping process
1.5 Chlorine and chlorine-based materials
1.6 Sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide
1.7 Greenhouse gas emissions
1.8 Non-renewable resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environme ... t_of_paper

[Perrorist]

BiggDad: Jo Nova is a right-wing climate change denier and advocate for the coal industry. She has no climate science credentials (she has a degree in microbiology) and her Skeptics Handbook has been ridiculed by climate scientists for its contradictory statements and misuse of data. In that book she asserted that global warming is not caused by greenhouse gasses and that “the world has not warmed since 2001". Read this for a review of her work.

[Dreamweaver]

India has announced that every home will be powered by solar in 2019

India’s new government anticipates that by 2019 at least one light bulb in every home will run on solar power, Bloomberg news agency has reported.

With 400 million Indian citizens unable to access electricity, new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen to harness the power of solar energy. Over the past three years the production cost of the alternative energy has dropped 61% in India, making it an attractive alternative to fossil fuel.

“We look upon solar as having the potential to completely transform the way we look at the energy space,” explained Narendra Taneja, convener of the energy division of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

To achieve the 2019 target the government will design and implement a number of policies ranging from larger, grid-connected photovoltaic projects to smaller solar initiatives. However, for the 2019 light bulb goal to be feasible, thegovernment will need the support of state-level administrations who share control over the power industry, the official added.

Solar power has received significant state support in recent years. In 2010, the previous government introduced theNational Solar Mission which set a target of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022, and in February of this year, India unveiled a new Memorandum of Understanding for a 4 gigawatts solar power plant which, when operational, could triple the country’s solar capacity.

Furthermore, according to the Economic Times of India, the Indian Government may introduce a dumping duty on solar imports in a move which would strengthen the position of domestic solar manufacturers. However, a rise in import duties could drive up the cost of solar for Indian citizens, Jarnail Singh, India Program Manager at The Climate Group, warned.

“While it is a great measure towards boosting Indian solar manufacturing industry, it appears to be a punitive and protective measure in light of the existing National Solar Mission. Increasing the import duties would essentially mean an additional cost on solar energy for the end consumer in the absence of a compensatory subsidy.”

“Investment in solar energy offers Indian citizens real control over power and productivity, it is vital that our new government recognize this and support it”, Mr. Singh affirmed.

http://www.urbangateway.org/news/india- ... solar-2019

[Perrorist]

Good stuff!