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Hey did you see the "network of pipelines" that Santos is proposing (about 3:27 into the 7:30 report video)? Hilarious! How much solar thermal and wind capacity would that buy us? We'd never have to worry about escalating coal and gas prices, and we'd never have to worry about a few megatonnes of C02 burping out centuries from now, Lake Nyos style.
When oh when will TPTB knock CCS on the head? I heard Garnaut last night saying that he was "optimistic" about CCS?
He has to say that to satisfy his political masters. The rule of politics is never set up an enquiry that you don't already know the answers to.Garnaut was told to come up with a recomendation of how to implement carbon trading as where there is trade there is money to be made and that is what state premiers are most interested in. Garnaut is an economist after all not a scientist so it will be entirely plausible to dismiss his call for 90% reduction as being "not science based" and therfore requiring more study.
We ahve made truckloads of money from messing the palce up and Garnauts job was to figure out how, at the turning point, Australia can make truckloads of money cleaning it up. CCS was one way to ensure someone makes a lot of money trying if not succeeding.
The link is here:
http://www.santos.com/library/Santos_Moomba_Carbon_Storage.pdf