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Written by Viv Forbes, guest post on Oct 5, 2020. Posted in Latest news
Greens Oppose What Works And Promote What Doesn’t Green zealots infest all parties: the media, academia, education, and vested business interests. They consistently oppose what works and promote what won’t. Greens demand “Zero Emissions.” Nuclear and hydropower are the only practical “zero-carbon” electricity options for Australia. Greens oppose both. Greens worship “the environment” but support widespread environmental destruction by birdchopping windmills, and land-stealing solar panels and their inevitable spider-webs of roads and transmission lines. All to produce intermittent energy that is forced onto distributors and consumers by legislated targets, taxes, subsidies, and mandates. Green policies support cutting forests in America to ship woodchips to the UK for burning in the DRAX power station. Other policies support growing crops using diesel fuel for tractors, harvesters, and trucks to produce biodiesel with less net energy than they started with. Not smart. Greens support carbon capture and storage, fully aware that this won’t happen without legislated subsidies, taxes, and targets. They know that CCS will favor their wind and solar toys by multiplying costs and energy waste for coal, oil, or gas generators. Big miners also love it because far more coal or gas will be needed to produce the same electricity.
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Most politicians now support “green” steel and aluminum, via zero-emissions hydrogen. The hydrogen must be made by electrolysis of water or from methane. Electrolysis is not feasible without the nuclear power they oppose. And the methane route produces poisonous carbon monoxide, plus more of the carbon dioxide they dread. All processes use more energy than can be generated from the products. Australia’s huge untapped resources of uranium and hydrocarbons are the envy of the world. But their green tape, locked gates, and death-by-delay strangles all exploration and development.
Australian uranium mine.
Australian coal provides energy for Asia And Green Guru Ross Garnaut thinks that Australian graziers should harvest kangaroos, not cattle. Let them do both. 2