Greenpeace have pulled off another publicity stunt by occupying an australian power station.
They claim that if every home in queensland choose to use solar water heaters the power station could be permenantly shut down, and not replaced.
Sounds great to me.
Just don't expect that solution for the UK - it's a specific solution to that bit of the world - it's not sunny enough over here for that to work. We're probably better off with ground source heat pumps, which require more energy to run.
I recently went on holiday to eastern turkey, and what struck me was that every home (or nearly everyhome) had a solar water heater. They worked, provided you didn't want a shower too early in the morning.
The ladies next door had an electric shower on the end of the solar heated pipe - so they always had hot water, with less (or even no) electricity being used during sunny hours.
One final thought:
They say that, since they are at the top of the stack, they need to test the air to ensure that they can stay there safely.
They're still up there.
This suggests to me that there can be few pollutants coming out the stack.
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