Why does my antenna pick up a terrible longing in your whinges? All this rabbiting on about a Social Conscience, sorry License. “And that’s the secret to getting a Social License. You have to be special, have special powers and knowledge. But not real knowledge, that’s for intellectuals pata ti pata ta, whinge, whinge etc.

So go out and get yourself a Social License, if such a thing can be purchased over the counter. But instead of peering into the distance like a blind sheep headed for the knackery, you’ll will actually be in the position you clearly hanker for.

Meanwhile stop the feeble bleating.

So you want a Social License… What is it? What’s it good for? And where can you get one?

The all powerful, very cool. and dare I say it, mystical Social License!
Not everyone can have one. But more about that later.

So what is a Social License?
A Social License gives you permission to comment on subjects that you have no training in but feel your opinions are better than people who’ve studied and researched the area for 10, 12 or even 20 years. So, you might feel strongly about Tasmanian Devils, and with a Social License your views are given equal weight with those of a Professor of Zoology! How cool is that?

What’s a Social License good for?
Aside from the obvious power, you can use it just about however you like. In essence what you say becomes “reality”! Imagine you really hate Gunns. When they say they want to make clean Green electricity with a Biomass Generator your Social License allows you to say “Gunns should leaving saving the Planet to the people who care about it” and get it published in National News Media. That is amazing you say? Well, Gunns doesn’t have a Social License and you have. So even though you know nothing about anything other than feel-good mother-craft statements you’re in there, instant power!

How to get a Social License.
Not everyone can have a Social License. Obviously, you have to be “better”. And that’s the secret to getting a Social License. You have to be special, have special powers and knowledge. But not real knowledge, that’s for intellectuals. The best way to get a Social License is to join a pseudo-political group that’s got a few spare. We’re talking Australian Conservation Foundation, The Greens, The Tasmanian Greens (they have heaps, just lying around), The Wilderness Society etc. But you don’t just get a Social License, you get access to dozens of slightly woolly brained potential sexual partners! Score!

Losers!

You leftist, green supporters must be looking for a rock.

CCS is LIBERAL POLICY

whoops, you must feel like you just trod in dog-shit…

I’ll say one thing about the hayseed in the homespun overalls, Joel l, offensive and ignorant he may be. But at least he keeps it brief. Goodnight.

The following is lifted from my submission to the recent senate carbon inquiry:

The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing by 0.4% per year, because the natural sequestering systems cannot cope with the Earth’s total annual increase in CO2 production. So the mass of CO2 that must be sequestered globally per year by other than natural means, just to hold the global atmospheric concentration constant, is 0.4% of the annual global CO2 production of 3,000 Gt, or 1.2 x 10^10 tonnes. When we write that out in longhand, it comes to 12,000,000,000 tonnes per year, or 33 million tonnes of CO2 per day.

Australia’s share of this, just to deal with locally generated CO2, comes to about half a million tonnes to be sequestered every day.

Let me repeat those figures: 33 million tonnes global and 500,000 tonnes for Australia PER DAY to hold the atmosphere contant.

To put it in a nutshell, geosequestration involves each year collecting, transporting and pumping huge masses of high pressure liquid CO2 into deep rock strata. (To dispose of all industrially produced CO2, we are talking tonnages of about three times the total tonnage of coal, petroleum and gas consumed per year). The captured CO2 gas has to be pumped at around 100 atmospheres pressure down shafts drilled to about a vertical kilometre into subterranean aquifers or the seabed. For comparison, a car tyre operates at around 2 atmospheres pressure. There is no question as to its technical feasibility on a small scale, but at the industrial scale required is another matter again.

However, all the available space down in the possible aquifers is presently occupied either by the material of the rocks, or by the liquid that saturates them, which is in most cases water. As liquids are incompressible, the fact that the CO2 can be pumped down at all means that water is being displaced out of its way. In other words, whatever liquid is presently down there has to be free to go somewhere else than where it presently is.

It would be different if CO2 were insoluble in water, and could be stored underground as gas or liquid over water, as the insoluble hydrocarbons are stored in natural deposits. But unlike hydrocarbons, CO2 is reasonably soluble in water. (The solution is commonly known as soda water.) The hope of the geosequestrationists is that in the long term (over thousands and probably millions of years from the time of sequestration) the CO2 will slowly react with iron and magnesium compounds down there to form permanent mineral deposits bonded into the rocks. What we do not know is whether or not that happens, and on what time scale. But long before that might happen, the dissolved CO2 will too likely have managed to migrate through the aquifer rock to reach the ocean at an undersea outcrop of the aquifer. For as I said, if the CO2 can be pumped down, some liquid is moving to make way for it, and it all surely has to go somewhere. Just where is uncertain, but scientific perceptions are resting in too large a part on the economic needs of coal and steel interests for us to have unreserved confidence in them.

Australia’s coal burning power stations and iron and steel plants are located relatively close to the coast, as are its coal mines. This fits in by and large with the global pattern for location of major coal burning facilities. The economic imperatives of pumping all the CO2 they produce down into the sedimentary strata below as liquid mean that the geosequestration sites should ideally be as close to the coal burning sources of CO2 as possible, which thus means close to the coast: giving the CO2 minimal distance to migrate through the rock in order to emerge into the seawater, where there is already too much of it. This threatens to make the proposed carbon geosequestration one of the greatest follies of all time, and a monumental waste of money.

More at http://noahsarc.wordpress.com/carbon-abatement-submission-condensed/

As I said: Will someone please prove me wrong?

Turnball should just pack his kiddy bag and take his balls home. Like all Libs he is a wimp and could do with a good thumping for his typical actions to try to wedge the good works of Rudd and Gillard. The Libs tried to destroy my union with their nazi legislation and now they are getting what they deserve. Howard and his successers all lie. Remember the GST that we were told us they would NEVER introduce - but they DID! And the Habib affair too! They try to make us think all boat people are illegal aliens when the Immigration department and the court cases prove that over 90% are legal and can be Australian citizens!

Kevin’s proposal was sensible and gave all of the participants a good and workable option. It is technology that Australia leads the world as well so it will be an economic powerhouse (excuse the pun) for Australian industry as we service the world. It truly is a coup for Kevin and the Labour Party as well. The Greens wish they could have done it so they just snipe at the heels and criticse around the edges.

These Libs led by Turnbull have never learned from the children overboard fiasco that we know they lie, and they are intolerant as illustrated by they way they called for Haneef to be gagged and trialled. Like Hanson they are limp wristed lyers.

When Kevin’s other global climate control solution of broad-acre tree planting using high carbon extracting species of eucalyptas we should meet our targets easily by 2050. And we will have lot s of wood as well so our native forests will be protected from companys like Gunns and their Lib loving cronies.

Hugh, geography is important for some fairly obvious reasons. Coal is bulky and heavy therefore being close to markets is a price advantage. Australia is a major coal supplier in this region and should therefore play its part in getting CCS implemented with its major customers in India, China etc. All this, of course, assumes that CCS could ever be economically viable and there is plenty of room for doubt there.

What we need is a website or something where the various political parties can put their policies with the dates next to them… for reference.

ROFL

“Kevin Rudd scored a major international victory overnight on the Government’s carbon capture and storage effort”

Wasn’t CCS a Liberal policy? And isn’t Rudd on record as having rejected it?