Woodheater rebate a success?

How about a mini-reactor inside each wood heater?

No i recon we should have a liquid sodium cooled fast breeder reactor. Solve the green house emission problem and we can sell the isotopes and plutonium on the free market. As well sell the massive excess of power to Bob Carr. We could locate it in the tranquil surrounds of the Naas river valley.

comes in handy when negotiating with powerful neighbours

aka Queanbeyan (but they’re not so powerful).

Get with the 21st century! Pebble-Bed reactors need no liquid coolant.

Much safer too.

The answer’s simple – Canberra’s own nuclear power station.

Cooling water from Burley Griffin, lots of egg-heads at ANU to run it, no greenhouse gasses, and the chance to amass a wad of plutonium (comes in handy when negotiating with powerful neighbours).

well, at some time all the fossil fuel in the world was once airborne CO2.

Given that there’s much more of the planet’s original CO2 locked up up in limestone deposits than in fossil fuel reserves it does kind of make you wonder.

In any event most of the air-pollution argument isn’t really a greenhouse one. They want to move the burning as far away as possible (coal fired electricity) or make it very clean (gas).

yep.
You got it Ari.

Yep.

The carbon emmission debate should really dubbed the fossil carbon debate, because that’s what it’s about (long-buried carbon dug up/pumped from under the earth).

How do you come to the conclusion that wood burning is carbon neutral? Is this because the trees sequester carbon when they are growing?

Gas = greenhouse (for those who care passionately about the issue, which I don’t)

Apart from being a wonderful form of heating, wood burning is carbon neutral, so surely a better rebate (from the point of view of our passionately green masters) would be to subsidise cleaner-burning wood heaters.