As De Jong puts it:"`Current competitive markets offer insufficient guarantees for long-term investments in large-scale alternative energy sources, such as nuclear power stations, offshore wind parks and CCS projects'.
Reminds me of Desproges' joke:
Which of the following does not belong with the others: Metastasis, Schwartzenberg, cancer, future. Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine
As for whether we can effectively put aside coal when energy scarcity increases, the answer, in the abstract, is no. But we're certainly not in the abstract. To reuse the article's classification, coal goes against Kyoto and Moscow (iirc there isn't that much competitive coal in Europe) and thus is a tough technology to promote. Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine
here in Italy we have dioxin-spewing trash incinerators classed as 'renewables' too.
as for coal, it's CCS! so relax...
/snark ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
