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A year on from the abolition of the carbon price, greenhouse pollution from electricity generation has rebounded as Australia burns more brown coal to meet its power needs.
Carbon dioxide emissions from the national electricity grid jumped by 6.4 million tonnes in the financial year after the Abbott government repealed the scheme that required big industry to buy pollution permits, according to analysis by consultants Pitt & Sherry. The 4.3 per cent increase unwound part of an 11 per cent fall in emissions across the grid in the two years the carbon price was in place.
It can mainly be attributed to Victoria's four large brown coal generators running at greater capacity more often as the electricity they generate became cheaper. Output from the ageing Latrobe Valley quartet was up about nine per cent.
With the exception of burning oil for power – a practice favoured in Saudi Arabia – burning brown coal is the most greenhouse-intensive way to create electricity. Cutting emissions from the electricity supply is widely considered the central battle in tackling climate change in coming decades. It pumps out about a third of Australia's carbon pollution.
The new data comes as the federal cabinet is set to this month consider Australia's climate change targets beyond 2020 amid international pressure over Prime Minister Tony Abbott's contrarian stance on the issue.
Original Submission
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Absolutely.Geek on Monday July 06 2015, @09:32AM
I call BS on your whole rant.
Solar Energy - Not renewable. The Sun will run out of hydrogen and even helium which we cannot renew. Solar energy is, at best, passive recovery of sunk cost at the GSP level. At worse, it denies solar inputs into the atmosphere's conduction/convection cycles. Which causes climate to change.
Yes solar is non-renewable on galatic time scales. But on anything even resembling human time scales it is very renewable....in fact it is inexhaustable. It just sounds like you just want to have a cry about something.
Do you know how to renew the wind?
Sure do; what you need to do is spin your planet around; this creates alternating hot/cold cycles. These cycles (lets call them the day/night cycle) will cause differential heating; this will cause your atmosphere to increase in pressure in some areas and decrease in others. These differences or pressure gradients will cause the atmosphere to flow from high pressure to low pressure. The effects can become quite complex but you get the general idea.
"Climate Change" is a propaganda term replacing "Global Warming" because some places haven't been warming much. Climate Change implies negative consequence because everyone knows change... any change... is bad. Honestly, "Global Warming" was a more honest description of the bit we're worried about.
Ok I have to agree with you on this one; it was originally "global warming" then we had "climate change" to make it easier for the general public to digest....I say screw them; let them learn something for a change.
Propaganda.
Say it with me: The use of "Renewable Energy" will cause "Climate Change".
I also denounce propaganda!
The use of energy will cause climate change. Best if we just stop all energy use right now!!!!!
That said, "Renewable Energy" sources may be the most horrible forms of energy apart from the others, but the term is still evil propaganda.
Really.....coal is horrible dirty shit; have you ever been to a coal fired power station? They are not clean places; natural gas plants by comparison is lovely, what great stuff to burn compared to coal very little in the way of filth. Solar by comparison; clean super clean, once the system was installed on my uncle's roof and the constructon area had been cleaned up..no more mess.
And before you point out that solar maunfacturing is a source of pollution; hvae you ever been to a foundry where the parts for large generators and boilers are made....also not very clean places.
Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.
(Score: 1) by Absolutely.Geek on Wednesday July 08 2015, @12:23AM
Been modded Troll twice now.....wonder who is doing it.
Calling BS != Troll.
I think the original post was far more trollish; and I usually don't feed the trolls.
Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.