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Originally Posted by Pangolin
Australia persists in their rush to national suicide. In the midst of the first climate-related national scale disaster to hit a industrial nation they persist in their plans to export more coal.
Now they fire the only government researcher working on organic methods that would sequester carbon. It's a good thing no Australian farmers and ranchers have access to rifles. Those politicians would start feeling like targets otherwise.
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In NSW Coal tankers are lined up 90 kilometers along the coast waiting to get into Newcastle port to be loaded. It is quite an unprecedented sight.
The State government wants a new coal fired power station
The Federal government just gave ChevronMobil 60mil. to put the CO2 they bring up with the gas from the Gorgon gas Field (the biggest in the world) back down the hole
There is one CSIRO report in the original TP thread saying that Oz soils are poor because they contain charcoal. Need I say more?
Some time (year or two ) ago I asked CSIRO what research they were doing in this area they said nothing.
But things aren't quite that bad. There were at least 4 -5 poster presentations about Australian char research at the IAI conference, (including CSIRO). BEST 's technology is now American owned, hopefully they will have better brains to use it.
Attached a few of the IAI poster presentations. Taken with an antique digital camera by an antique. Hopefully better versions will be on the IAI site soon. I have pics of them all but I'm not sure of the copyright situation.
One of these presentations with the "roaring flame" way of making charcoal was a worry.!
PS Australian Farmers do have guns just not Automatic Military Assault Rifles. They need them to kill thirsty cows and occasionally themselves. The sad thing is if the PM Howard (AKA Bonsai) introduced carbon credits they would be rolling in money. His popularity certainly is waning of late, a lot due to poor environment management. People are very concerned about GW
