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By Matthew Warren, published 29/10/2013NSW's ministers must not be cowed by a few activists if the state is to avoid a gas supply shock.
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Yes we could create a salt problem that may not already actually exist.
But hey, that same salt water can be put though a demin plant and funneled off as town water?
What's left, can be pumped around buried agpipes, covered in membrane, where a number of plant species, with more pulling power than many pumps, will have access to it as a permanent and reliable supply of Ag water.
And the annual six figure compensation packages aren't too lousy either!
And that beats the hell out of trying to make a bare living from a veritable dust bowl.
Sure we need to take all care and due diligence, but we simply can't have the blanket ban, on coal seam gas extraction, some of the more vociferous activists want, as the only allowable solution.
We need the gas to enable our manufacturing base to grow; and we need the manufacturing base, to create anything like a healthy working economy!
I mean, imagine Cuba today, if it but had coal and or commercial gas fields! After all, Gas, or any source of high grade methane, can be fed into ceramic fuel cells to create a very local power supply, or compressed, even a very portable power supply.
And hardly environmentally harmful, given the exhaust product of methane powered ceramic fuel cells, is mostly water vapor.
Moreover, this particular combination is the most energy efficient in the world, with a reported 72% energy coefficient.
Which should also make it one of the cheapest! Hello! Maybe that's the real problem!?
Rhrosty.