Coal Power Online

we had a power cut on the coldest day of the year. Good job we had some spare coal in the garden hut…

i just managed to catch the end of this segment on Lateline Business.

Preceeding this footage was a guy from Alternative Technology Association saying he was “happy with the use of biofuels, as long as the emissions from producing those fuels are less than the emissions from their use”. Sage advice.

Algae oil or Algae biodiesel is such a fuel.

This is footage of an Energetix trial algae plant in Victoria Australia, being fed some of the emissions from Hazelwood coal power plant. Hazelwood is currently Australia’s worst polluting power plant - but that might soon change.

Energetixs (a biodiesel company owned by the Victor Smorgon Group) now has the exclusive Australian license to the algae growing process owned by Greenfuels(tm).

Full Transcript of segment here
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/200706/s1962973.htm
where you’ll also find a vodcast of the whole segment on the right.

More info here:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Energetix+algae

http://www.iowaindependent.com

Carrie LeSeur, of the non-profit law firm Plains Justice, talks about some of the reasons she gave up practicing law at a private firm and started doing environmental justice work.

She spoke in front of 500 gathered at a Sept 9 rally on Merle Bell’s farm.

http://plainsjustice.org/

http://www.iowaindependent.com

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