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Friday, November 02, 2007

Dr Karl Takes Wind Out of the Clean Coal Sales Pitch


This sort of stuff is very refreshing given the blah blah of the Cult of Meetooism that has apparently converted our glorious potential leaders here in Australia.

Dr Karl, that wacky scientist from television has an uncontroversial view on the biggest oxymoron of contemporary environmental politics, clean coal.

Celebrity physicist Karl Kruszelnicki has described clean coal as a "complete furphy" and likened it to Nazi propaganda.

"Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, said if you're going to tell a lie, tell a big one, and this is a beauty," Dr Kruszelnicki said today.

The scientist is running for the Senate on the Climate Change Coalition ticket.

"It is a furphy, a pork pie to cover up the fact that there is no such thing as clean coal," he said at Customs House in the Sydney CBD.

Dr Kruszelnicki used a scale model of Sydney and a $10 tent to demonstrate what he said was the "myth of carbon capture".

Sydney alone would produce a cubic kilometre of compressed carbon dioxide every day as a result of the process, far more than could possibly be stored under ground, he said.

"You can't build a box big enough to store that every day, there is nowhere big enough under ground to put it and the ocean is not an option,"

"One cubic kilometre of CO2 to get rid of every day"


Wouldn't it be good if more politicians talked like this. I might even vote for them.

Update: Mea Culpa. We woz wrong. Apparently his assertion was based upon an incorrect source and that clean coal does indeed have merit in being evaluated.

3 comments:

James Higham said...

They take us for fools and in many cases, they're right.

Ben Prudence said...

Can't wait for Dr Karl to take on the IPCC, Al Gore, Sir Nicholas Stern and the International Energy Agency (among others) because according to him, they are all wrong about carbon dioxide storage too.

He'd better count on being elected, as his public credibility has been dealt a mortal blow.

Colin Campbell said...

He now admits that he was wrong and based his statements on an incorrect source.