Has Gillard and co thought about implementing the following, by...

Has Gillard and co thought about implementing the following, by coercing the emitters to make improvements to their power staions, asap;

http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/commissioned-work/reducing-costs-CO2-capture-storage.pdf


"7. CONCLUSION
Capture and storage of CO2 has the potential to significantly reduce CO2-emissions from Australian power stations. Capture and compression of CO2 will cost between 70 and 90 A$/ton CO2, the lower range costs are representative for a retrofit of an existing coal fired power station power station, the high range costs for a new coal fired power station. There is the potential to halve these costs by targeted research and development. Transport and storage of CO2 will typically add between 10 and 50 A$/tonne CO2 to these costs, leading to overall costs in the range 80 ? 140 A$/tonne CO2."

They could start this process straight away, no waiting til July 2012, and give some other tax considerations, etc. for those that comply, and in the meantime have use of our hydrocarbons being used in an efficient and less polluting manner.
And we wouldn't have the fear and concern for future energy availability that the Greens seem to to want us deprived of.

RAVI