As the world looks to Germany as a shining example of how to shift away from polluting coal power, a Queensland-based nuclear expert says solar thermal power is the way forward for Australia.
Paul Wilson is an electrical and control systems engineer with almost five decades' experience who has previously made submissions to the parliamentary inquiry into nuclear power. Dr Wilson told ABC Radio Brisbane's Steve Austin he was disappointed Australia was not showing leadership or innovation in renewables. "We're very good in Australia at innovation and at engineering and I think we should take a leaf out of the German book," he told the Drive program. "And they're basically trying to systematically close down their coal mining industry but they're doing it by replacing jobs. "So they're deliberately setting out, for every job that is lost in coal mining, they're trying to create another job to create it." Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-18/solar-thermal-power-should-be-major-export-expert-says/11971938
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