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An item in the Sydney Morning Herald seems to lack a key word. Let’s redress this:
It will be almost impossible to offset the increase in greenhouse gas emissions from new power stations planned by the State Government, green groups say.
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The Government appears to have paved the way for building more coal-fired power stations, according to a draft of its white paper, obtained by the Herald.
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However, measures under its Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme will not compensate for the extra carbon dioxide emissions that will be created if forecasts for growth in energy demand are met by polluting technologies such as coal, said Jane Castle, resource conservation campaigner with the Total Environment Centre.
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“There’s no hiding the fact they are promoting a gigantic increase in emissions. It’s time for Bob Carr to put down his green crusader label and admit he has been done over by the dirty, greedy power industry.”
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The white paper draft reveals how the Government plans to tackle NSW’s growing demand for electricity.
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Bob Carr, conscious of his reputation as an environmentally sensitive premier, will also announce new greenhouse targets for 2020 and 2050 and a regime that puts pressure on the power industry to adopt cleaner technology, such as ...
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... gas.
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I’m archaic, I prefer the word ATOMIC!!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 05 20 at 12:43 PM • permalinkWe are the Knights Who Say “Nuke!”
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Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 05 20 at 01:43 PM • permalinkI still want a General Atomics T-Shirt.
Preferably with a Very Retro Atom Logo or something.
Also, damn your damn PMCode and not using HTML for damn link damnings.
cripes-
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I once went to a overseas DOD school where this guy named Harry Hutton learned me English.
He was always writing letters to some twit named Boris…
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 05 20 at 07:06 PM • permalinkBruceW — Or one colony all over the solar system if we let Morton Thiokol build the engine…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 20 at 08:18 PM • permalinkPity the SMH didn’t suggest solutions to the rising needs for energy in this country.
Is it because:
1) Solar Power doesn’t work at night
2) Wind power only works when the wind blows
3) Wave power is in its infancy and likely to go the same way as wind power
4) Hot rocks - see point 3
5) Gas power - maybe SMH could contribute there, but there’s not enough to keep us going for more than 20 years at the rate energy demand is growing
6) No-one wants to pay at least 3 times more for electricityOr maybe because the answer hasn’t been researched by that paper, and its easy to smear industry as dirty and greedy even while using its products?
Certainly no-one seems to mention the new nuclear pellet type reactors.
Well, I work in the power industry and I do get dirty - its called work! I don’t think I’m any more greedy than the next guy - I would be more than happy to forgo profit if I could turn the power off to those people who don’t like it…
I for one would like to see people debate the real issue for our energy future, and not just score a couple of points (if you think they did) from people trying to contribute to a society that demands lights, hot water and energy.
An unintended beneficial consequence of Green anti-nuclear ravings in the past is that a hell of lot more uranium is still in the ground and available for power generation in Australia than otherwise might have been the case.I think we all owe Bobbie Brown and his camp followers a big vote of thanks.If it hadn’t been for this lot all of that beautiful yellow stuff could have been used up by the stinking Kyoto-loving cheese eaters.
Guys, when you set up the nuke power plants, make sure you give Concerned Citizens™ like Wombie the chance to opt out of hooking up to the icky things. I’m sure he’ll be much happer with no electric power when the sun’s down.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 20 at 11:08 PM • permalinkNo nukes! No nukes! I say we cut down all the old growth forests in Victoria to make room for wind turbines and solar cell arrays…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 05 20 at 11:41 PM • permalinkI say use the living rooms of NIMBYs to store the nuclear waste!
Posted by Cybrludite on 2005 05 21 at 12:24 AM • permalinkWackBat, I’ll take you seriously when I see you using a environmentally friendly computer.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 05 21 at 01:24 AM • permalinkI wouldn’t want a nuclear power plant in my front yard, how would I get the car out?
You can stick it out back though.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 05 21 at 01:50 AM • permalinkDepend upon naturally-occuring rivers in convenient locations. If those are lacking then forget dams. And then, when it comes to dams, the enviros scream like harpies on the rag at the environmental damage these things do, so we might as well just go nuke. Like (as yojimbo pointed out) France.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 21 at 10:50 AM • permalinkLefties say they want clean power but they have a problem with just about everything.
Oil and coal - obviously dirty.
Nuclear - clean, but SCARY! And where do we put that waste? It’s not like the US has some huge desert you could dump it where it wouldn’t hurt anything. Any place you put it might become a death valley or someting.
Natural gas - clean, fetishized by most greenies, but construction of a proposed terminal here in liberal, blue-state Maine has been repeatedly defeated. It would have been terribly ugly, don’tcha know.
Wind - construction of windmills on uber-liberal, blue-on-blue Cape Cod defeated. Again, terribly ugly.
Hydro - the fishies have trouble around dams. Middle-aged Massachusetts liberal airhead overgrown teenage sorority sister Ellen Goodman lauded the removal of a dam in Maine because of that. Presumably she types her silly little girl columns on an Olivetti.
Solar - utterly impractical, so nobody’s really tried to implement it. But I have a feeling those arrays might be terribly ugly.
Can’t we pass a law that people who bitch about energy production are banned from using it?
Dave S.—actually, Death Valley’s name is somewhat of a misnomer. With sufficient rainfall (like we’ve had this year in that area) it becomes something quite different.
But we do have plenty of empty, lifeless spaces which would do well as nuclear waste storage facilities. Dan Rathers’ brain, Britney Spears’ chastity, Ward Churchill’s conscience…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 21 at 11:30 AM • permalinkOh, and don’t diss Olivettis. I dig my typewriter, which is sixty years old but looks more modern than many things produced in later decades. It looks like this one, with a few scratches in the paint.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 05 21 at 11:32 AM • permalink“Dave S.—actually, Death Valley’s name is somewhat of a misnomer.”
Yeah, I was just looking for the pun. How about Nevada? Cripes, you could have a permanent nuclear chain reaction going and nobody would notice.
(For a neat satellite view of what I believe are nuke storage sites, Google the latitude and longitude of Area 51. Then go to terraserver.com and enter them.)
“Oh, and don’t diss Olivettis.”
No dis intended. I just mean that chronic complainers about energy use should maybe, y’know, not use electricity. I’ll bet Ms. Goodman uses a computer, cell phone (environmentally-unfriendly battery), lights, a heating system for her house, and all that other neat stuff that power generation makes possible. Hell, the fact that she’s from Massachusetts and summers here in Maine tells me she’s probably got an SUV, too.
WomBintDope,
I’m grateful Tim B has agreed to set up OZ’s first nudlear power plant in his own front garden (gee [comma] that would be front sidewalk in Sydney [comma] wouldn’t it. [end parentheses]
I’m a bit concerned about all the mispelling on this site though. After all [comma] live nuke teenagers just doesn’t make sense.
I’ll let you slide on the question mark, but “live nuke teenagers just doesn’t make sense” ???
Indeed…
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