When will we learn - clean coal is dirty

In today's Australian newspaper, the "Australian Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute" tells us that clean coal is too expensive to establish. A carbon price of $60 a tonne (I wonder how many minutes of coal fired operation that is) is required before it's viable.

Then we bury the carbon underground, where there is a risk of leakage apparently. So I wonder why we aren't burying nuclear waste and having a cleaner type of power to start of with?

Oh yes, nuclear is "bad". We can sell our yellow (cake) overseas but we (the intelligent nation - with our very own education revolution) can't use it ourselves. So 2030 is the date upon which we have estimates of when carbon will reach this price.. yet even in the most dire of predictions we can have working nuclear power plants up and running by 2020. So, we're willing to keep on stalling and throwing our arms up in the air are hanging onto this idea of clean coal while opportunity goes begging.

Fucking amazing.

Yep, tell the thousands of patients per day who benefit from nuclear medicine every day. It's really bad!!! Attach the word nuclear to something and see people cringe, or frown. Why? Early technology developments have problems and the cost of not maintain these facilities (like when your entire politico-economic structure falls down - ala Communist Russia) is clear. Yet today some advanced countries like Germany and France have large parts of their power requirements safely generated by nuclear power. In Germany's case it's over 50%.

Australia, get smarter, get wiser. Nuclear isn't "bad" it's smarter technology and cleaner. It's our way to being environmentally sustainable - keeping our development and advanced status in the world while engaging in an environmentally responsible generation of electricity.

It doesn't take a $100million a year institute - even Kevin and Julia's education revolution should be able to tell us that.


Incidentally why is this an 'Australian Global' institute, is it like The World Series, where only American's play? Is this Australian's Global institute that only Australians are part of...?