home ground disadvantage

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Posted 22 Sep 2009 9:30 AM

Home ground disadvantage

My recent post about fuel cell power generation has led me on to a piece of reading that highlights how difficult it is to get workable energy policy in Australia.

Contemplate this: while the Melbourne inventors and manufacturers of an alternative energy source are battling to get support here, their product has qualified for a leg-up in Germany and Britain! The details of this home ground disadvantage are set out in the Victorian Parliament Hansard transcript of an Environment and Natural Resources Committee hearing in Melbourne on 27 July.

Giving evidence was Brendan Dow, chief executive of Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, developers of solid oxide fuel cell technology to provide low-emission electricity from natural gas. This is my truncated version of his story:

Link @

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Home-ground-disadvantage-pd20090921-W47WX?OpenDocument&src=srch#BA1C9AE0B7EF26FDCA25763A001BF164