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Geothermal energy the renewable that never delivers

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:53:27 +0000

The latest carbon ad, paid for again by the Australian taxpayer to further ‘educate’ us about renewable energy.

This advertisement features Geodynamics, a renewable energy company that has spend the last ten years trying to develop geothermal energy production near Innamincka in northern South Australia.

How many Megawatts has Geodynamics produced in electricity?

Zero.

Geodynamics has spent ten years spruiking its grand plans. This Greens/Labor Government ad states that 10 percent of Australia’s power could come from geothermal, yet in ten years with ten of millions of dollars of government subsidy Geodynamics has produced not one watt of power.

Geodynamics got its first $5 million government subsidy in 2005. In April 2007 Geodynamics chief executive Adrian Williams said that by 2010 they would be provide some power into the grid, so far zero. In November 2009 Geodynamics was awarded $150 from the Renewable Energy Demonstration Program (REDP), still no power.

In October 2008 Geodynamics announced it would provide a demonstration plant and provide power to the town of Innamincka, population 12, by early 2009. Now this is the company that this Labor Government advertisement is pushing as potentially providing ten percent of Australia’s base-load power. Have they managed to power the 12 people people in Innamincka in the following almost three years?

No.

Why the Carbon Tax is not like the GST

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:05:51 +0000

Once the GST was passed by the Australian Parliament most people accepted the GST as a new tax, and a done deal. Many people may have whinged about its implementation, the dreaded BAS form, and all that is involved in the GST. Ultimately in the end, nearly everyone agrees that the Federal Government has to collect tax, and we have to pay it.

The Carbon Tax is very, very different.

For a start at least a quarter of the population (at least), don’t believe the premise that the tax is based upon, that is that climate change is caused by the human race. This means at least a quarter of the population is never ever going to accept a Carbon Tax. Every election they will remember that the Federal Labor/Greens alliance has imposed a tax on them personally that they feel is unjustified. They might be mostly Liberal voters, but you can be sure there are a fair proportion of Climate Change Skeptics in the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

There are about 40% of the population, are not sure about the cause of Climate Change. This might be a nice issue to discuss at the BBQ on a Sunday with a beer in hand, but after 1st July 2012, they will be paying for a Carbon Tax whether they are sure or not. So this interesting philosophical question of the cause of climate change becomes a hip-pocket question, which clarifies the mind. Lots of these unsure people will start searching the internet and talking to friends, and finding out there is another, skeptical view, about climate change, one the mainstream media does not normally mention. Some of these people will also go to the Federal Election in late 2013 annoyed that they have been forced to pay a Carbon Tax by the Federal Labor/Green alliance, for something they don’t believe in.

Every time electricity prices go up they will blame the Carbon Tax (whether it is true or not). If a Carbon tax is applied to petrol or diesel, every time the fuel price goes up they will blame the Carbon Tax. This is the reason John Howard dropped indexation of fuel excise, because it had become a community mantra, that every time fuel went up, it was because the Federal Government was getting more money from excise, yet really it was just rising world prices. Doesn’t matter, when fuel prices go up – it will be the Carbon Tax. In fact when anything goes up in price – it will be the Carbon Tax….

Carbon Tax from July 1 2012

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:15:45 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced Australia will have a Carbon Tax in place from 1st July 2012. Australians will then pay more for fuel and Electricity.

All Australian businesses will pay more for their energy use. Any overseas competitor in the USA or China will not have to pay a Carbon Tax.

Even if your business does not export, your costs will go up, and any imported item from the USA or China will not have a Carbon Tax, and thus will be relatively cheaper.

The Carbon Tax will result in industries being shifted overseas to countries that do not have a Carbon Tax (almost every other country in the world)

The Carbon Tax will increase inflation in Australia, and add cost to every item. Every item, every service, needs fuel to move it, electricity to store it, so every item, every service will become more expensive. Alan Kohler says manufacturing will be devastated

The Carbon Tax will hit poorer families who live in the outer suburbs more. There transport costs are higher. Even if they take public transport, they will pay more, because the Carbon Price will flow into the cost of public transport. The poorer families pay a higher proportion of their income for Electricity, which means they will pay an even higher proportion of their income.

How much of the worlds CO2 does Australia emit – 1.28%

Prime Minister Julia Gillard promising at the 2010 election that there would be no Carbon Tax under her government. There is an online petition against the Carbon Tax here

While the number people that believe in Climate Change continues to drop, Galaxy Poll Feb 2011:

ACF / ACTU Green Jobs report – 40 pages of claims with no evidence

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:49:22 +0000

Having just heard another obsequious interview by Alison Carabine on ABC Radio National Breakfast about the ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation) and ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) report entitled “Green Gold Rush: How ambitious environmental policy can make Australia a leader in the global race for green jobs“, I thought I would download it to have a read.

40 pages of claims with no evidence.

The ACF and ACTU wants to increase the cost of Electricity for every Australian, the cost of fuel for every driver, make many industries no longer internationally competitive, and this will somehow magically result in more green jobs???

I wonder what some of the ACTU’s members in the Brown Coal Industry, and the Aluminium industry will make of this? You can read about the report (” A New National Report” – funded by the ACF and ACTU – how unbiased is that) here.

The ACTU call it a “Green Gold Rush”. Is it a gold rush for members of the ACTU, or for the economic modellers that make this stuff up.

The building opposition to Rudds ETS

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:40:17 +0000

What a great election it will be this year if it is based on the ETS

Robert Gottliebsen taking about the mining industry and how the ETS will destroy Australias wealth

to quote just one paragraph:

In the past few weeks, as I talked with mining and power chiefs, I discovered a deep sense of anger and frustration. But at this stage, few leaders want to go public, preferring to attack the issues via industry bodies or to do special deals with the government.

As the election approaches, their anger and frustration will spill into the public arena.

More and more your average voter is going to see through what a gigantic transfer of wealth the proposed ETS is going to be.

A carbon tax does not mean there will be any new power technologies

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:01:33 +0000

One comment from ABC the world today. An ETS scheme and $100 Billion costs on business does not guarantee development of new technologies. If hundreds of billions of dollars is taken out of Australian business and handed over to households – how does that money get to develop new technologies?