When it comes to the global carbon tax you have to have to understand that its quite literally bundles of money that go offshore into dubious places where wall street types start trading it and have historically got it caught up in fraud allegations while getting rich off the backs of the poor.
*Edit* I realize maybe folks have not read articles about constant fraud committed on carbon trading schemes thus it may look like a conspiracy so here are a few articles below.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutschebank-court/former-deutsche-banker-jailed-for-carbon-trading-fraud-idUSKCN0YZ1S6
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/dec/14/eu-carbon-trading-fraud
This guy explains the latest IPCC carbon tax that Trump is now famous for pulling out of.
https://www.pscp.tv/va_shiva/1yoKMBMPeNnGQ
To me unless solar etc manufacturers stop emitting all the super warming GHG's like SF6 gas in their manufacture which is 23,900 times more warming than of CO2 there is no point sending bundles of everyone's money to anonymous wall street types if its not going to fix the problem.
10,000tons_SF6_annually x 23,900 = 239,000,000co2 equivalent gas while all of Australias coal-power stations for example emit only around 150million tons of co2 annually.
And while co2 is core plant food for everything that does photosynthesis ( https://youtu.be/7-HcEpliMYk ) these other non-natural toxic gases released in the name of green energy will be floating in the atmosphere for the next 3,200 years. The truly wicked side of it is that simpletons will use temperature increasing charts to say we need to do even more to cut co2 and then demand we make more solar farms and cut down trees/destroy wildlife thus inhibiting co2 sequestration while far more powerful GHG's are being produced in their place just super accelerating the global warming argument, it's just pure crazy and evil.
NOAA monitors a lot of these gases at various stations around the world and a lot of them are just accelerating
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/dv/iadv/graph.php?code=MLO&program=hats&type=ts
Some folks hate real-world data on Wikipedia etc so I will try and use youtube videos and other sources on GHG's like SF6,NF3,C2F6 etc from green tech who don't like Wikipedia to try and make it as easily absorbable as possible.
https://youtu.be/v6uVnyjTb58?t=12m48s
It turns out that because of the emissions of extraordinarily potent greenhouse gases NF3 and SF6 and energy during the manufacture of solar modules
http://notrickszone.com/2014/03/25/analysis-shows-solar-modules-cause-more-greenhouse-gas-emissions-than-modern-coal-power-plants/#sthash.O3giOrC3.dpbs
https://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/2014/03/23/solarstrom-in-deutschland-klimakiller-nummer-1/
Used for the manufacturing of semiconductor devices, flat panels, photovoltaic panels
https://www.solvay.com/en/markets-and-products/featured-products/sf6.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-grayson/eco-etiquette-how-green-a_b_554717.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_trifluoride#Greenhouse_gas
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-02/documents/conf04_tripp.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24266144
https://youtu.be/S_9Q_6fuGNI?t=1m55s
https://youtu.be/v6uVnyjTb58?t=12m48s
With Geothermal, aside of the problem that its like hydro where you need to be in a specific place for it to work, its also a problem that Geothermal is temperamental over time in that often the heat runs out for a while due to too much water being pumped down or the pressure disappears because its just being lost elsewhere due to new crevasses etc,
this is why despite the quite detailed energy generation history on Wikipedia for renewables there isnt a single page that provides generation numbers for our convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geothermal_power_stations
Also, Geothermal power stations do emit and create a lot of toxic crap. And typical for alt energy there just dumped into the environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power#Environmental_impact
Fluids drawn from the deep earth carry a mixture of gases, notably carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3) and radon (Rn). These pollutants contribute to global warming, acid rain, radiation and noxious smells if released.
States like South Australia would love to have geothermal and even spent a lot of money trying to forcibly create an industry but they couldn't make it happen despite epic government money handouts.
They had a big hot-rocks geothermal plan in South Australia a while back but it was the same problem as soon as they could build it they started losing heat and pressure moved out of their well to somewhere else.
The claimed MW capacity of all geothermal plants is pretty small on top.
Sure you can claim that we dig a giant hole
anywhere in the world deep enough into the earth and cement the sides etc it will be great but talk about pie in the sky hopefulness the reason why private companies won't invest in this stuff without government grants is that they know its stupid compared to conventional energy.
Geothermal power project closes in SA as technology deemed not financially viable
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-30/geothermal-power-plant-closes-deemed-not-financially-viable/7798962
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/another-flannery-fail-geothermal-project-scrapped/news-story/331390329e1af9da27ec28a80163b45d
Hillhater said:
More GWh "battery" plans for Australia..
https://reneweconomy.com.au/1414-plans-two-gigawatt-hour-silicon-storage-plants-s-75504/
http://1414degrees.com.au/#What
But of course, it will depend on recieving Govmt grant funding in order to be built !
Its the same thing again as with the SA Hot Rocks project where they are given about 200 million dollars from the government to build these unproven energy technologies that then fail, this one being "molten silicon" its about as cynical as it sounds.
This is purely about praying on the Australian public for taxpayer money, the executives in charge of these energy projects will pay themselves about $1million a year managing this project and its important for it to take many years just like the hotrocks project to turn around and say it didn't work, sorry.
No one is taking the "risk" other than the clueless taxpayer who has probably been wowed by the latest "molten silicon" facebook memes and Getup! propaganda videos.