Jennifer Marohasy » Australia Lacks Capacity to Meet Carbon Reduction Targets

In a A$6 billion plea for new research development and demonstration on new power generation technologies, the Academy explain in a 42-page report entitled ‘Energy Technology for Climate Change – Accelerating the Technology Response’ that we do not currently have the technology to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions [1].

Wind Watch: Campaigners’ ‘delight’ after wind farm plan blown away

Campaigners packed a committee meeting to hear controversial plans to construct three 390ft wind turbines in leafy Hertfordshire will not go ahead.

Wind Watch: Wind isn’t the answer to our energy crisis

I have no objection to the installation of a wind mill on private property (depending on the acceptance of the neighbors of course), but in the absence of adequate technology to store excess energy when generated, for those times where there is no wind, there is not much hope that wind generators alone would provide enough energy to get you off the grid.

Cartoons: If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold