"Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist, said if you're going to tell a lie, tell a big one, and this is a beauty," Dr Kruszelnicki said today.
The scientist is running for the Senate on the Climate Change Coalition ticket.
"It is a furphy, a pork pie to cover up the fact that there is no such thing as clean coal," he said at Customs House in the Sydney CBD.
Dr Kruszelnicki used a scale model of Sydney and a $10 tent to demonstrate what he said was the "myth of carbon capture".
Sydney alone would produce a cubic kilometre of compressed carbon dioxide every day as a result of the process, far more than could possibly be stored under ground, he said.
"You can't build a box big enough to store that every day, there is nowhere big enough under ground to put it and the ocean is not an option,"
"One cubic kilometre of CO2 to get rid of every day? It's not possible! But they don't tell you that that's what they've got to get rid of. They make reassuring noises that they're spending millions looking for underground caverns. But I'm here to tell you that they're not going to find it.
"Carbon dioxide is always carbon dioxide - it isn't going anywhere. It will get back into the environment. The point is that they can only store 1000 of 1 per cent, not all of their daily output."
Dr Kruszelnicki was joined by fellow Climate Change Coalition candidates, who are seeking positions in the Senate and House of Representative seats across the country.
AAP reports: Dr Kruszelnicki said political promises including a $20 million plan for exploration of underground caverns would be a waste of taxpayer dollars.
As well, any storage facility would eventually wear down and would release the stored carbon dioxide back into the environment, he said.
His political party is recommending a 40 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and a 70 per cent reduction by 2050.
Underground thermal energy accessed in South Australia could provide 100 per cent of Australia's baseload electricity for the next 75 years and then be supplemented by other renewables, he told reporters.
"If we tried really hard we could have all of the electricity in Australia made without carbon by 2020 using a mixture of renewable energies including hot rocks and the wind and the waves and the sun."
Dr Kruszelnicki was joined today by his running mate on the Senate ticket, Patrice Newell, a resident of the Hunter coalmining region, who challenged suggestions that the coal industry would suffer major job losses if Australia made a dramatic switch to renewable energy sources.
"I know that for a fact that they would be quite happy to have a job in the renewable industry," Ms Newell said.
"It's not that it's a commitment to a coal job, they want a commitment to a job."
Dr Kruszelnicki said Australia must decide where it wanted to focus its energy prospects for the future.
"We've got two choices in 15 to 20 years from now," he said.
"Either to make money, we sell dirt overseas, coal, or we sell the (renewable energy) technology without burning dirt."
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