{"id":264355,"date":"2023-06-28T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264355"},"modified":"2023-06-28T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:54:00","slug":"aussie-government-admits-the-green-energy-revolution-will-require-lots-of-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264355","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Government Admits the Green Energy Revolution will Require Lots of Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 Each new megawatt of solar power requires 35-45 tonnes of steel, which still needs iron ore and coal \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical minerals \u2018main event\u2019 in climate change action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Marion Rae
Updated <\/strong>June 26 2023 \u2013 12:41pm, first published 12:38pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More mining, not less, is needed to support the world\u2019s climate change targets and avert an energy shortage, a global summit has been told.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shift to clean energy systems is gaining momentum, and unlike previous transformation it relies on critical minerals and rare earths, Resources Minister Madeleine King said on Monday at a mining symposium in Brisbane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An onshore wind power plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired power plant, Ms King said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each new megawatt of solar power requires 35-45 tonnes of steel, which still needs iron ore and coal despite \u201cexciting developments\u201d in hydrogen that may eventually lead to Australia producing green steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat remains distant, so metallurgical coal will remain a necessary component of steel for some time to come,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical minerals are \u201cnot a sideshow for clean energy, it\u2019s really part of the main event\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.canberratimes.com.au\/story\/8246914\/critical-minerals-main-event-in-climate-change-action\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Its refreshing to see Canberra Times mention some cold hard facts, even if they are mixed with fantasies about the shift to clean energy systems gaining momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is nobody knows where the minerals required for clean energy targets will come from. In 2019 Foreign Policy analysed what would be required, one of the requirements was a 2000% increase in Lithium production: (2050 \u2013 2023) x 2000% = 540 years worth of current Lithium production to hit Net Zero by 2050.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister mentions \u201chydrogen\u201d smelted green steel.\u00a0For now industrial scale green steel is a pipe dream.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Iron ore can be smelted using hydrogen rather than coal, but the process is expensive, because all traces of hydrogen must be removed from the final product. The slightest hydrogen contamination in steel causes embrittlement, which leads to serious and difficult to detect structural defects in the final product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you add green regulatory hostility towards industry, spiralling energy prices, a struggling manufacturing sector, and aggressive enforcement of environmental regulations to the gross shortfall of green mineral resources, it is not difficult to see why the world is on track for a big Net Zero miss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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