Think Globally, act Locally Climate change may be the biggest...

Think Globally, act Locally



Climate change may be the biggest talking point and rightly so, as it can affect all of us, but something much closer to home and just as important, if not more so to those who happen to live near them? is the effects on peoples health caused by these smoke belching coal fired power stations.

At the time of writing, it seems as if it can be much worse than that, especially when you have not one but two coal fires in the open cuts like we do in the Latrobe Valley,

When is the death toll going to be taken into account?

How long will it be before they take into account how many respiratory sicknesses and fatal heart conditions are caused by this outdated technology?

The coal fired power plants world wide have killed far more people (slow premature deaths) than all of the nuclear power plants and nuclear bombs put together yet, not one politician would tell you that.

I believe Nuclear and Solar CPV will be the best answer, especially when Solar has the backing of a suitable storage system like these new flow batteries being developed, this would allow for distributed power to come into it's own, which in turn saves power lost by sending it over long distances, it would also help with power security against terrorist acts.

But it seems like our politicians would rather see technology developed right here in Australia go overseas, they are backing their mates who own the coal and the power stations, we will have to pay a premium one day to pay for technology that originally came from Australia, talk about Nero fiddling whilst Rome burns, our pollies are Luddites.