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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Clean Coal Window Dressing


The latest we are green strategy from the Howard Government in the run up to the election is a $100 million dollar investment in clean coal technology project in Victoria. I can never get my mind around clean coal. Based upon my experience in waste management, I have to assume that this will generate a very concentrated waste stream. Not sure what you do with it, but it is just transferring the waste from the air into another waste stream.

This is very problematic, according to one of the Board Members of BHP Billiton, one of the big players in the coal industry. He believes that storing the waste streams related to clean coal will be just as problematic as managing nuclear waste.

It is a clever marketing ploy. Australia is the largest coal exporter in the world and there are plenty of markets.

16 comments:

James Higham said...

Long ago I was at the Yallourn power station and I can't really see how coal can be made 'clean'.

Bill Haydon said...

It's a funny thing - I knew that Oz was the largest exporter of coal but I just can't imagine it - it doesn't square with northern hemisphere preconceptions of sun-kissed aussie.

Colin Campbell said...

I think the term should be cleaner coal. Unfortunatly, cleaner coal just means some kind of scrubbing and removing particulates, which have to be managed as a waste by themselves, just not in the air.

Shades said...

I was very bemused to read in james Dyson's aitobiography that he invented a particulate collector for diesele lorry exhausts, but that no-one would touch it because the residue was so nasty.

So let us just belch it out into the streets instead...

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