The former prime minister has backed a US solar steam company and hopes the Greens don’t frustrate Labor’s climate agenda as they did in 2009.
, as he joined the share register and advisory board of American solar steam company GlassPoint.
Although that steam can create electricity if used to turn a turbine, GlassPoint is targeting industrial customers such as alumina refiners that require steam or heat for their processes, rather than trying to sell electricity. “My view is there are plenty of locations in Australia where this would be very suitable. Think of all our mineral processing ... It is going on, by and large, in places where this sort of technology will be very useful. Most of Australia has very good [solar] radiation characteristics.”The role is the latest decarbonisation project Mr Turnbull has pursued after quitting parliament in 2018.
“You can’t really say they [the Greens] started a decade of climate wars, but the truth is by blocking the CPRS at the end of 2009, they created the environment in which Tony Abbott could kick off that decade of climate wars which has just been so debilitating and so destructive.
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