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Algal fuels key to nation's energy independence : Comments
By Julian Cribb, published 23/4/2013Almost alone among 25 OECD countries Australia has no national strategic oil reserve.
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I mean shale oil produces four times the carbon of others oils, from raw product to usable fuel.
We likely have reserves to rival or eclipse the entire middle east, and in sulphur free forms that require little or no refining. (NG, sweet light crude.)
Our reaction? Lock away the most promising potential oil reserves in our marine economic zone.
It's not an either or, when it comes to our politicians, just neither.
The Algae plants currently operating in Australia, are just pilot plants, as was the massively subsidised Rundle project.
The difference being, once you've dug up your shale or whatever, it gone. It's a once only resource!
Whereas Algae, is a prospect that can just grow and grow as long as life is possible on the planet!
And growing it is the same as harvesting Co2 directly from the atmosphere.
Our real problems are myopically focused people like Julia Abbott or Tony Gillard, and all the others, who know nothing about either, you know what I mean?
Rhrosty.