a canny carbon calculation

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'Before he retired earlier this year, Mark Johnson had been on the board of AGL for 22 years and was chairman for nearly six years, so when he talks about the potential for east coast "brown outs" he deserves to be taken seriously.'

'In Firday's KGB interview Johnson laid out the timeline for adding new baseload generating capacity if brown outs are to be avoided ? and the practical need for a carbon price at some point quite soon if either brown outs or a spike in electricity prices is to be avoided.'

The artcile talks about the need for certainty on a Carbon price OR no Carbon Price before serious infrastructure investment will be committed to by Investors. The article also points out that NEW large coal-fired baseload capacity (i.e. a new power station) would take about 5 years to build.

Why can't Politicians see that Decentralised Energy could help alleviate the enormous demands on the Centralised Grid? All of this massive requirement to replace & expand the Centralised Grid could be alleviated significantly with CFU's Technology.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/AGL-Mark-Johnson-climate-change-carbon-price-pd20101129-BN8Y2?OpenDocument&src=sph