Energy superpower -or sustainable energy leader?

摘要

In this second instalment, Michael Smith and Karlson Hargroves look at two key planks to Australia becoming an 'energy superpower' through a sustainable energy approach - energy efficiency and the viability of renewables in delivering base-power loads.rnLast issue (Part 1, Ecos 139) we explored the idea of Australia as a new type of 'energy superpower' capitalising, in today's carbon-constrained world, on technologically savvy, low- or no-carbon energy sources rather than our traditional reliance on non-renewable and greenhouse intensive energy sources, such as coal.