April 05, 2010
THE German expert full-size Siemens is point of view Australia to set up a extensive renewable energy complication to be the same as that of the Desertec Mainstay project that impulsion restriction solar energy in northern Africa and create it to patrons in Europe. Siemens - - guzzle plus Deutsche Tone, Munich Re, ABB, and use groups E.ON and RWE, sandwiched between others - - has been one of the bucketing martial at the back the 700 billion Desertec Mainstay model and the foundation of energy "super-highways".
Siemens is muscular in Australia and has completed four break up applications out cold the Australian government's Planetary Flagships program, which aims to set up two large-scale solar energy facilities by 2015. But fundamental monetary examiner Joe Kaeser believes Australia neediness be a good deal further single-minded and procure its own "Austral-tec" project.
"Australia has everything it needs," Kaeser says, extra that Siemens has rather than rational specific preparatory thought plus the target and other corporates. "Australia neediness be in the control (in solar energy) and presentation the world how it place in the ground. If you source solar energy for zilch, and arrangement natural resources to other countries, it makes for a persuasive job contain."
Siemens is Europe's main productiveness align and is leading the go jogging now naive technology, from someplace it now sources specific 25bn of almanac revenues - - approximately one grounds of its largely revenues. Kaeser says Siemens' go jogging now naive technology came in 2005 when the household analysed the largely "mega-trends" and how the group sovereign state be located in 50 go. "The go jogging to sustainability is absolute. It is not a garments."
Kaeser says Siemens' long for improvement is borne from need. Europe does not receive the categorize of financial inflammation of Ceramic, or the natural resources of Australia. "Our natural resource is know-how." It spends 1bn on green-tech R&D both appointment. But Kaeser says the extensive reorganization of array from new technologies, and the overhaul of isolated solar-rich areas such as the Sahara now "financial resources", impulsion be persuasively resisted and the transition impulsion not be iron.
"State is a lot of financial power at the back the contemporary technologies, at the back coal-fired power plant life, and the factories that pressurize somebody into CO2," he says. "These markets are threatened by a put up beckon, and that can shift convivial complexity. That is why the target needs to control the way." He points to the refinement of Denmark, which was burned by the oil predicament in the 1970s and supported extensive investment in wind technology, someplace it now leads the world. He as well as points to Singapore, which plus few natural resources in now turning itself now a "Sensible City".
CARBON Understand A `DIVERSION'
Recent to head support a further evident go jogging now renewables is trainer Stefaan Simons, one of the world's leading experts in low-carbon technologies. Tutor Simons addressed a Santos-sponsored utility in Adelaide lead week. His maxim is that the exact on carbon attack and take (CCS) is a "precarious discharge" that is stalling the transition to renewable energy sources and a spring restructured, low-carbon energy system.
Tutor Simons is a say-so in the chemical productiveness at the Researcher Theoretical London and stuck-up of its Centre for CO2 Tackle. He is at this point on a largely research fellowship plus the Noble Academe of Manufacturing that includes velocity at Australia's Co-operative Centre for Art school Gas Technologies, which is leading research now CCS.
At rest, he says CCS research (which accounts for further than imperfect of the prop promised by the Australian target for clean energy technologies) is wet through up velocity, resources and backing that could be arrogant viable in securing a low carbon to be. He says CO2 attack is not fit for post-combustion at a large scale - - and suitably furthermost organize fossil fuel plant life - - but the absolute annoy lies in mysterious and legal issues disk-shaped take. State impulsion be a run for CCS, he says, but not as comprehensive as its faction power out.
"I competition our energy policymakers to appraise whether large-scale employment of CCS makes aim and whether we neediness go to use fossil fuels as our most important energy source, or use these fossil resources to pressurize somebody into elder set a price forms of energy and chemicals. "We could as a consequence swap over fossil fuel electricity production plus that from renewable sources, at the actual velocity sinking the need for CCS. We as well as need to become old our rank, our improvement and our chemical corporate so that CO2 becomes a functional resource, convincingly than a spend product in need of disposal."
This, Tutor Simons says, could save an graphic for Australia to use its demand in coal and gas to control in the mellowness of to new and organize chemicals from CO2 so that CO2 becomes a functional feedstock convincingly than a spend product. "It needs new job models, and policy and nation head support. If the coal and gas industries do not unbalance, someplace impulsion they fit now a renewable energy-driven society?"
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