AP. What type of biomass burner do you have (a fire place? lol).
A mate of mine has been trying to commercialise a very good small, very high temperature biomass burner for decades. He had no success at all despite some interest off shore.
It seems not even the developing countries (where it should be a great asset) nor our latest ALP Environment Minister is interested (no reply from her).Friday s edition of T he Australian Financial Review featured the front [1]page headline
"Iron ore, coal, and LNG light up surplus" (August5).
A few pages later, a couple of highly respected industry leaders from Glencore and Rio Tinto warned of the dangers of eliminating fossil fuels too quickly and increasing the risk of Australia prematurely bowing to global political and environmental pressure.
This message was rightly endorsed in The AFR View - that "exposed by the energy crunch, the world will continue to depend on fossil fuel energy for decades to come".
Then, across the page is a brilliant comment, "Australia can't afford to lose the race to produce clean steel". Arguably, this article should have been on the front page, because these are the types of issues we really need to focus on, and Australians really need to know the simple facts that after many years as a very reliable supplier of high [1]quality raw materials, we have always had the proven capability of being able to produce all the products which these raw materials are turned into by our customers overseas.
There is an important transition occurring where a real opportunity has emerged for Australia to become a cost-effective supplier of these and many more commodities, benefiting much more by being both the supplier and the user of raw materials-with the list extending to battery minerals, rare earths and other emerging strategic materials including nuclear fuels.
So ,lets wake up to the fact that we have already moved into a different era where these opportunities are back on the table-and if we miss them, we will have to continue being a supplier of raw materials, key people will continue to migrate to customer countries, and we will still have to struggle through the decarbonisation era.
