





Wind turbines or solar panels, nuclear power plants or ‘clean coal’ solutions, what does it mean to find renewable, sustainable and green answers to the energy challenge, not only in Australia, but for the world? How can this transformation occur and what are the implications? Panel discussion on alternative energy with Ben McNeil, Prasad Menon, Michael Bielinski and Grant King.
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After 30 minutes of Grant King serving up a near sermon on gas, and totally ignoring the existence of $20 BIllion dollars worth of baseload Solar Thermal projects in Spain and another $20 Billion worth in the USA, he finally admitted that you could power Australia on Solar power if Australians were willing to pay for it.
Matthew Wright
08 June at 04:22PM
And of course Grant King was right. Thanks Matthew "in the blue t-shirt" for pushing him to admit it! :)
42:50 in to the video, the last part of Mr King's statement is that the choice to go 100% solar is "a choice that’s available to you as a community".
I don't see that choice being presented to us by anyone, no matter how vocally we demand it. There's a problem with the politics, this is for sure. And so I'm really looking forward to the closing event in this great lecture series (thanks to The Wheeler Centre for putting it on and making these videos free to download, it really is a wonderful service you are providing to the community), "The Politics of Climate Change" on Saturday. Anyone want to buy my ticket for it?... Only joking ;)
Todd Houstein
10 June at 09:10PM
Sorry, didn't get the format right...
42m45s
Todd Houstein
10 June at 09:17PM
Hi,
Just wanted to say hello ;)
i'm new to this board.
Ditsflidolo
14 January at 03:45PM