Ann: Habanero 3 Well Incident - Update , page-18

Bernard, read this from the Australian tonight:

"AUSTRALIA is to change the way it makes electricity, with huge new solar power plants and cleaner coal facilities to be built.

The federal government will spend billions "greening up" electricity and says it wants to lead the world in the field.

Emissions trading has been delayed so the government is forging ahead with other ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The climate change budget has been beefed up, despite tough economic times, to $15 billion over nine years.

Of this, $1.5 billion will be spent building up to four massive solar power plants on a scale the world has not seen before.

The solar farms will pump out as much electricity as a large coal-fired power station - 1000 megawatts - and, according to the government, three times the size of any solar power plant in the world.

The money will be spent over six years and will go to plants which use solar thermal or solar photovoltaic technologies."

I agree that geothermal will have a part to play but solar energy will as well.