Australia's coal and iron ore are powering Chinese factories, so why not make wind turbines here, Andrew Garrad asked an audience at Melbourne's Clean Energy Week 2011 conference. Economists may blame the strong Aussie dollar or market size for this lack of manufacturing capability, but Australia's reluctance to fully embrace a clean-energy economy can simply be put down to "silly" politics, argued the founder of London-based renewable-energy consultants Garrad Hassan.
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