Sky News launches digital newsletter of ‘engaging commentary’
Sky News is capitalising on its access to some of Australia’s most opinionated media personalities with the launch of a new digital newsletter.
Sky News Viewpoint will provide readers with a collection of commentary and editorials from the channel’s leading anchors and contributors, and will be delivered weekly on Wednesday evenings.
Bronwyn Bishop? Yeah, no thanks
I prefer balanced, intelligent, fact-based media commentators to ‘opinionated’ ones such as those listed,
20 Aug 2017
Tonight Alan Jones incorrectly identified the white clouds emerging from power station cooling towers as carbon. I support Alan’s general points, but he was technically incorrect and missed some strong points in his defence and promotion of fossil fuels as our backstop for many years.
The white clouds emanating from those lovely, statuesque, concave-barrel chimneys are not carbon; they are steam. The curved cone accelerates the steam to a condensation height and temperature and the resultant water pours down the cooling tower, and is re-used. What we see is Holy water, condensing from water vapour, that the community knows as steam, which is H2O water, in the vapour state.
The steam, as high temperature gaseous water, is the substance that drives the turbines to make electricity before the spent water vapour is delivered to the cooling towers, most of which is recaptured as water as it rises up the cooling tower and precipitates. The small percentage of residual, spent water vapour escapes as steam; condensing as it forms clouds.
The white cloud is neither carbon nor carbon dioxide; IT IS WATER! Carbon dioxide is ejected through the invisible, very tall, skinny chimneys, which are ignored by the press. Those tall, skinny chimneys have internal electrostatic precipitators to capture the vast majority of carbon particles and other minor contaminants that are a product of burning the coal to turn the feed water into steam to drive the turbines. The CO2 escapes to help feed our plants… providing we don’t produce too much. Clean coal addresses a large component of this difficulty.
Please don’t encourage the left wing to continue to misrepresent the images of pure water from cooling towerscondensing in our atmosphere.