Foregone
Kevin Cloonan, Bendigo VIC
Date: 18 April 2008
The fallacious arguments of the coal industry have done nothing to engender public confidence in their ability to combat climate change.
The deceptive term 'clean coal' is a concept devised by the coal industry to hoodwink the Australian public into believing they can produce a product free of greenhouse gas emissions. But this is not so. The product, 'clean coal', is very dirty; somewhat cleaner than coal but much dirtier than renewable energy.
Because the clean coal process, by the coal industry's own admission, can capture only some of the green house gas emissions, clean coal will always be a source of pollution.
Not so renewable energy, it generates electricity without producing any greenhouse gas emissions to dispose of.
Coal industry propaganda should not be allowed to influence Australia's choice of energy. With limitless solar energy from the sun and geothermal energy from some of the hottest rocks in the world, the choice of energy should be a foregone conclusion.
