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Yep @AngusTaylorMP has appointed not one but TWO gas exec to his new Advisory Council
Get ready as his inaugural 'tech low emissions statement' tomorrow will further distract us from actually reducing emissions
THREAD #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/australia--new-energy-roadmap-focuses-on-specific-industry/12687028
Yep @AngusTaylorMP has appointed not one but TWO gas exec to his new Advisory Council
Get ready as his inaugural 'tech low emissions statement' tomorrow will further distract us from actually reducing emissions
THREAD #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/australia--new-energy-roadmap-focuses-on-specific-industry/12687028
First this new Tech Roadmap Advisory Council
Includes a big banker, coca cola CEO, gov reportees and
Grant King, ex-Origin Energy (of 45% target 'economy wrecking' BCA fame)
Ben Wilson, CEO Aus Gas Infrastructure Group (pic below)
NO ONE from renewables, clean tech space!
Includes a big banker, coca cola CEO, gov reportees and
Grant King, ex-Origin Energy (of 45% target 'economy wrecking' BCA fame)
Ben Wilson, CEO Aus Gas Infrastructure Group (pic below)
NO ONE from renewables, clean tech space!
Now @AngusTaylorMP has been up late working on this roadmap as evidenced in this pic in the Australian article
Here is what the roadmap seems to miss
1) funding
2) destination
3) actual emissions reductions in Paris period (2021-2030)
Lets go through what it does have...
Here is what the roadmap seems to miss
1) funding
2) destination
3) actual emissions reductions in Paris period (2021-2030)
Lets go through what it does have...
Priority technologies - all summarised in this pic of Angus Taylor still working hard (also from Oz article - note same outfit different location, though has picture of himself working hard on his desktop so obviously working too hard to notice. Sorry digressing. Its late)
Priority tech 1) Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Yep same tech used to spin 'clean coal' by 'burying emissions'
Even the industry rep
agrees that after 15 years & $1.3 billion in taxpayer funding there isn't a single clean CCS facility for coal! https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/carbon-capture-mccallum/12677442
Yep same tech used to spin 'clean coal' by 'burying emissions'
Even the industry rep
agrees that after 15 years & $1.3 billion in taxpayer funding there isn't a single clean CCS facility for coal! https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/carbon-capture-mccallum/12677442
Priority tech 2) Hydrogen!
Sounds good right
Water + Renewable-powered Electrolysis = Hydrogen
The waste product is water!
BUT this is not what the government wants when it talks about 'clean hydrogen' according to the leaked draft in @smh https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/government-to-fund-gas-and-carbon-storage-via-clean-energy-programs-20200906-p55svj.html
Sounds good right
Water + Renewable-powered Electrolysis = Hydrogen
The waste product is water!
BUT this is not what the government wants when it talks about 'clean hydrogen' according to the leaked draft in @smh https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/government-to-fund-gas-and-carbon-storage-via-clean-energy-programs-20200906-p55svj.html
To @AngusTaylorMP 'clean hydrogen' is "from off-grid gas with CCS, and coal gasification with CCS is likely to be the lowest-cost clean production method in the near-term"
As explained to @jolauder @triplejHack today hydrogen is at a cross-roads https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/hack/12667332
As explained to @jolauder @triplejHack today hydrogen is at a cross-roads https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/hack/12667332
Either we allow the government to corrupt the hydrogen industry by pushing cheap, dirty hydrogen made from fossil fuels or we insist it be green, using water and renewables.
Clean Hydrogen is Clean Coal 2.0
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6929491/they-are-trying-to-emasculate-it-energy-plan-will-weaken-renewables-agency-experts-warn/ @sallywhyte @canberratimes
Clean Hydrogen is Clean Coal 2.0
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6929491/they-are-trying-to-emasculate-it-energy-plan-will-weaken-renewables-agency-experts-warn/ @sallywhyte @canberratimes
3) Electricity storage
Watch out for - hours required for batteries, how often they would have to be deployed and how competitive they have to be in terms of price
On 4) Soil Carbon 5) 'low-carbon' [not green] steel and aluminium - need detail https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/scott-morrisons-energy-roadmap-to-slash-emissions/news-story/f400dbb2bfad8a255f84a9542a1b86bb
Watch out for - hours required for batteries, how often they would have to be deployed and how competitive they have to be in terms of price
On 4) Soil Carbon 5) 'low-carbon' [not green] steel and aluminium - need detail https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/scott-morrisons-energy-roadmap-to-slash-emissions/news-story/f400dbb2bfad8a255f84a9542a1b86bb
Where are Electric Vehicles!
How is this not a priority technology?
There isn't a single policy to address transport (1/5 national emissions) and Australia imports its cars anyway! Look at Norway!
And where is the EV strategy promised last year? https://thedriven.io/2020/08/19/how-norway-ended-the-ice-age-and-why-it-should-inspire-australia/
How is this not a priority technology?
There isn't a single policy to address transport (1/5 national emissions) and Australia imports its cars anyway! Look at Norway
!And where is the EV strategy promised last year? https://thedriven.io/2020/08/19/how-norway-ended-the-ice-age-and-why-it-should-inspire-australia/
The emissions reductions of 250Mt pa by 2040....
They are made up.
According to @Tom_Swann @TheAusInstitute FOI digging they just guessed the emission reductions
The Gov doesn't model its emissions past 2030...
https://reneweconomy.com.au/federal-government-energy-roadmap-based-on-guesswork-and-thought-bubbles-24028/
@renew_economy @MichaelM_ACT
They are made up.
According to @Tom_Swann @TheAusInstitute FOI digging they just guessed the emission reductions
The Gov doesn't model its emissions past 2030...
https://reneweconomy.com.au/federal-government-energy-roadmap-based-on-guesswork-and-thought-bubbles-24028/
@renew_economy @MichaelM_ACT
The only serious emission reduction policy by the Morrison government is to use dodgy empty allocated credits from the previous climate agreement
This has no legal basis and is universally unpopular.
Want climate action - stop this. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/kyoto-carry-over-credits-baseless-in-international-law-experts-say-20200304-p546rw.html
This has no legal basis and is universally unpopular.
Want climate action - stop this. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/kyoto-carry-over-credits-baseless-in-international-law-experts-say-20200304-p546rw.html
Remember @ScottMorrisonMP @AngusTaylorMP have made this whole Tech Roadmap process up.
This is not a United Nations mandated process.
No other country is doing just this roadmap without destination, funding, targets
This is not a replacement for a long-term strategy
This is not a United Nations mandated process.
No other country is doing just this roadmap without destination, funding, targets
This is not a replacement for a long-term strategy
