The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/nuc...711-p5b0pd

Many of the sources and ideas Ludlow quotes / promotes have come from vested interests, including CSIRO, entitles that are making a living off grants for advanced manufacturing R&D including renewables. For example, there is a CSIRO site right here in Melbourne that houses Printable Solar PV R&D, Advanced Manufacturing, Hydrogen Economies and Carbon Capture and Sequestration, almost under the one roof! You can walk 100m and get a diametrically opposed opinion, which one you or the media choose is arbitrary.* In many many cases they compete for the same grant money!

I worked in / with the same industry for over a decade, they lost me when after years working on low CO2 alternatives they started kyboshing pretty anything that competed for grant money, no matter how effective, viable or achievable it might be, the green energy industry is not as altruistic as many think.

*The truth is there is no one best, cheapest, greenest solution, and the field of renewable energy is as full of profiteers as any other including oil, coal, gas, nuclear, etc., etc.. Claiming one is better than the other is a bit like preferring a Gulag over a Stalag.

The fastest solution is a broad mix of all technologies, technologies that are based on actual immediately achievable and attainable results/actions and not promises at the end of a rainbow. The rainbow stuff has it's place, but it's not going to happen in the timeframe needed.

At the moment, the funding models lead to paralysis by indecision, they debate and debate and debate, too gutless to make a choice, it's like a punters lament scared to lose a bet, but it's not black and white like the media make out, the black and white opinions are a subjective choice not an objective analysis. They should be pushing forward on every available avenue and chipping away at the problem as much as possible on all fronts, it's not the all in winner takes all option that commerce wants!