272: Australia cleans its coal

Well, I am having one of those great blogging experiences tonight - accessing the Internet through a weak phone signal in the middle of nowhere... Joy! But I did manage to find this story in The Australian, about new technologies being tested in Australia that can remove and sequester the CO2 emissions from coal fired power plants. Australia isn't the only country testing such technologies, but as local households currently get around 80 percent of their energy from coal the situation is pretty urgent. You have to hope that renewables will play a major role too, but that transition will take a long time and in the meantime this could help make energy cleaner.