1. •If Australia has some of the best solar and wind resources in the world, why aren't we in the top 5 countries for renewable energy investment, capacity or capacity added in 2008?
   

2. •in 2007 there were 250,000 renewable energy jobs in Germany why are there fewer than 10,000 in Australia?
   

3. •Why are we spending 2.4 billion dollars on Carbon Capture Storage Coal Fired power stations as part of the "Clean" Energy Initiative and only 1.6 billion on large scale solar projects?
   

4. •If the worlds emissions have to peak before 2015 to have a good chance of avoiding dangerous climate change does that mean that Carbon Capture and Storage will be implemented on Australia's coal fired power stations by 2015?
   

5. •Why have we forced multimillion dollar companies, that sell renewable energy technology developed in Australia, to move to the US and China due to lack of government support?
   

6. •What are fossil fuel companies going to spend their profits on when the planet is uninhabitable?

1. •Why are we investing in CCS when it is projected to raise electricity prices by 78% and is not predicted to be viable till after 2030?
   

2. •Why is the driest continent on earth, Australia, investing in CCS coal fired power plants, a technology that is predicted to use over 25% more water than existing coal fired power plants?
   

3. •Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) power plants are predicted to produce power at 4.5 cents per kWh by 2015, about half the projected cost of CCS Coal plants why aren't we investing more money in CST?
   

4. •Why does Germany, Denmark, China, Spain the US have a wind industry and Australia does not?
   

5. •Germany has 5,400 MW of installed capacity from solar panels (and it isn't a very sunny country) why does Australia only have 100 MW of installed capacity?
   

6. •Why does Israel have nearly 3 times the solar hot water capacity of Australia?

1. •Why do does the coal lobby say solar can't produce power at night when Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) Power with Molten Salt Storage has the ability to store solar power and dispatch it even at night?
   

2. •Why do does the coal lobby say renewable can't provide base load when renewable powered pumped hydro storage  and CST with molten salt storage have this ability?
   

3. •Why do we need "base load" power at night when most of the power is used during the day?
   

4. •If wind power is unreliable why did wind power grow 29% over the year 2008?
   

5. •Why do we spend $36 Billion on submarines when not solving climate change is probably the most likely trigger for war?
   

6. •Why should coal fire power stations be compensated when the world switches to renewable energy when they have never had to pay for the damage they have caused the planet due to climate change?

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