Wednesday, May 9

Taking a ride on a coal-fuelled plane

Queenslander Peter Bond was a recent conference in Australia where nine research and development companies were all looking offshore to grow the next stage of their business.

Australia's reluctance to take up new technology was behind the room's pessimism, according to the man who is now flying a jet 4000 kilometres across Australia using a fuel that he developed.

Mr Bond is the man behind Linc Energy, a Queensland underground coal gasification company, that has a test plant at Chinchilla and operates projects in South Australia, the United States, Vietnam and Uzbekistan.

"There were three companies on the panel and maybe another half a dozen in the room that were all research and development companies in some way," Mr Bond explained.

Brisbane Times

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