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I know of begasse. Are you aware that in the '70s - '80s sugar mills deliberately installed inefficient boilers so they could dispose of their waste? The power authorities paid so little it was not worth the effort to resell power. Please do not present that as a new source. 'Twas always there.

I am not part of the industry so my source of info is strictly what has been published on the web and, reasonably, I don't spend my waking hours scouring that. What we don't know is what you (industry insiders) believe we don't need to know. Fes up and tell me, warts and all, I am...

No it doesn't really. If I, with my limited knowledge, have to draw the truth out like teeth, how much else aren't you telling us? The science and technology have both evolved - like any industry there are poor early examples - plenty in the coal industry too! But you seem to dismiss the...

Would you care to give us a report on the "long" life of of the early wind generators? I have heard hundreds have already been abandoned and that the operators didn't even bother feathering the blades so they spin merrily on.... killing birds, sending residents insane. The greens (correctly)...

Why wouldn't you be? There are new power stations being built now. Does anyone have any projected costs? The metering/instrumentation/safety switching would be dirt cheap (and far better) compared with the old stations in the US and France. I suspect that the "high cost" of nuclear would be...

So you agree about the "no free lunch principle"? Until "green proponents" start admitting this and include such factors in their discussion papers, I will use my own worst case assumptions. And you will need ever increasing base load (think electric cars), not less, as we develop unless you...

Surely you can just knock the wall down and allow the polluted water to spread thinly across the whole ocean? Or are there plans to have a special "cleansing" process over and above the power generation process? So a solar project out in the desert is useful but a tidal one in Broome isn't...

I can't get past the "No free lunch!" principle. When I hear of harvesting solar power I think of the large areas laid waste. I don't think of it's dollar value but the ecological cost of it's destruction. It will still rain on your solar farm so how do you prevent erosion considering vegetation...