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A pilot plant for Net Zero

By Viv Forbes - posted Tuesday, 30 July 2024


Canberra also has plenty of hills to host wind turbines – they should also replace that massive flagpole on Parliament House with a large wind turbine. (They should also insist that the wind companies fund a permanent veterinary station nearby to treat injured birds and bats.)

There is also a lot of green space and parkland in ACT – these can host their quota of solar panels, all angled correctly to maximise collections from the far northern sun. Moving the massive and controversial Wallaroo Solar Factory planned for the Yass Valley into nearby ACT will kick-start Canberra’s green revolution. Pet goats should be encouraged to keep the grass tidy under all those panels.

Burning gas or wood within ACT should be banned – Mr Bowen should get Twiggy Forest to build a floating green hydrogen generator on Lake Burley Griffin. This will provide locally-generated green fuel to use in their cars, taxis, barbeques and lawnmowers.

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Greens blame cattle for global warming – so there should be no beef products on sale in ACT – loyal Canberrans will surely welcome the chance to test a diet of mealworms, grass fed goat meat, sun-dried sourdough and almond milk. This will bring a personal green focus to the net zero crusade.

Canberra will need to streamline their approvals processes for all this green land use change. With net zero at stake we cannot allow eternal objections such as those which caused a 13 year delay for extensions to the Acland Coal Mine in Queensland. Just a brief notice in the classified ads in the Canberra Times should suffice in this race to save the planet.

Any Canberra residents who are sceptical that this green energy pilot plant will operate successfully should be free to import a small modular nuclear reactor for their suburb. Or move to Queensland.

The whole Anglosphere has been led into a green energy swamp - our enemies cannot believe their luck.

Hopefully Trump/Farage/Dutton will lead us back to safe ground before the Bowen blackouts arrive.

 

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Viv Forbes is a geologist and farmer who lives on a farm on the Bremer River.

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