[LINK] Clean Coal

[Jan Whitaker]

At 04:51 AM 17/06/2012, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>I'd suspect that the fuel costs, and depreciation and maintenance 
>budget of a renewable alternative would tend to be much lower than a 
>fossil fuel alternative ... but that really needs to be tested on a 
>scaled up power generation exercise.

With most technologies, the money first often comes for the military 
applications, then business, then consumer. I realise the scale of 
this shift is different (infrastructure rather than gadgets or 
engineering components), but are there any examples where the energy 
needs are showing this level of baseload provision on a town-sized 
scale at least, where fossil fuel is hard to come by reliably? The 
only one I know of is the ISS (too expensive to haul coal up there 
and energy is critical to life on the station).

Vint Cerf is on Weekend Sunrise. Believes in 'geek orthodox'. Praising the NBN.
Trends: mobile net, net of things, buildings with sensor 
networks/environmentals
One of the reasons to make sure efficient use of non-renewable 
resources --- so clean coal does tie in! :-)

Jan



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