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IEA report advises governments to embrace renewables and nuclear : Comments
By John Daly, published 16/11/2011Things are that bad that nuclear is now the best option to beating climate change.
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Posted by KAEP, Monday, 21 November 2011 3:32:42 AM
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KAEP,
With your profound fondness for Geothermal power, perhaps you could point to a functioning commercial venture? Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 21 November 2011 5:30:45 AM
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Ian Macfarlane is Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources, which has relevance here.
It would not surprise me if he, Mr Macfarlane had a profound fondness NOT for GEOTHERMAL power but for our Australian 'Animal Farm' Democracy, being a member of the National Party. Whoever Shadow Minister may be: 1. He does not read or comprehend my point 4. above, that fossil fuel conglomerates have deadly-embraced Geothermal projects. 2. He does not know that University of QLD has major Geothermal projects underway - all funded largely by fossil fuel companies. And that this puts a cloud over their eventual success. 3. He does not understand that we have already reached PEAK-OIL and that Australia and all human societies have just decades to EMBRACE 'hot rocks GEOTHERMAL', before a significant thermodynamic collapse occurs. And that THAT means WAR and plague on apocalyptic scales. 4. He does not understand that all Australian political parties are drunk on worthless US dollars which are being printed by to ton by US Treasury. And that their hangover, and ours is nigh approaching. "All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings." "No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." "Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas." - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 6,9,10 Posted by KAEP, Monday, 21 November 2011 10:34:28 AM
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Kaep,
I admit I do not comprehend nor believe your conspiracy theories. There are a number of serious technical problems around pumping water 7km below the ground that have yet to be overcome, such as the huge volumes of water lost into the rock that are preventing commercialization. The theory that big coal is suppressing government subsidized research is at best quaint. Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 21 November 2011 2:22:01 PM
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Mr Abbott & ALL the Shadow Ministers,
I admit too, I do not comprehend nor believe your disbelief in conspiracy theories. After ENRON, Lehman Bros, World Bank & closer to home, IMMIGRATING massive numbers of CO2 producing GST-morons when we are paying dearly to halt HUMAN CAUSED climate change are JUST a few of the conspiracies that have got caught out. The actors in the above conspiracies have in general been declared "TOO BIG TO FAIL" and are still active. Now the rank and file don't know how many conspiracies are still in play. BUT we do know they are there, we know that ENERGY is a particular target as all Governments are desperately seeking to offload energy responsibility as soaring costs are an electoral nightmare. The notion of FREE ENERGY from GEOTHERMAL is a particular worry. IF energy is essentially FREE there is no profit to be made! Imagine a "too big to fail" fossil fuel company ALLOWING QLD University GEOTHERMAL to get BEST drill rig time? http://www.uq.edu.au/geothermal/ If I were too big to fail I'd deadly embrace 'em! We also know that when Tony Abbott and his mentor Malcolm Fraser both force new migrants to live NEXT DOOR to themselves rather than externalising those costs to "the community" then the Liberal Party MAY get reelected sometime again before ARMA-F'ing-GEDDON takes hold. Conspiracy theories? Nah despite all the evidence you don't have to believe in them. But WE in living under the tyranny don't have to believe in YOU EITHER. BUT if you don't believe in the second law of THERMODYNAMICS. If you don't believe in "spontaneous decay" of notionally ordered systems whose energy pump is overtaxed and too costly then you, like the "Murray Darling" won't know why you're dying till you're dead. Oh, if you're still into beliefs above facts, the overwhelming belief here is that the Liberals & all its dopey shadow ministers DESERVE it! Posted by KAEP, Monday, 21 November 2011 5:37:42 PM
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GETHERMAL power is different to fossil and nuclear fuels. It is a constant free energy reserve which can be tapped anywhere @ 7KM depths, with available technologies if we can overturn the Animal Farm political cancer with which Federal and State politicians have infected us. Viz: "All Australians are EQUAL only SOME are more EQUAL than others"
Human societies can, together with restraint on rights to breeding, build a sustainable global society which from necessity could inhabit the inner solar system and flourish for billions of years. Currently the prognosis for modern societies is decades!
We need to:
1. FIX current population levels with modest annual decreases,
2. Help women, anti-abortionists & tax-crazed, BIG population politicians understand they must use MIND to get power and not primitive bioloogical, GST generating self abuse.
3. Understand that millions of years of accumulated fossils could NEVER have produced high tech fuels if it were not for the Geological heating and related tectonic pressures from GEOTHERMAL sources.
4. Understand that Oil and Coal miners are NOT our friends. They stand to be the beneficiaries of billions of deaths & are most likely actively planning for that & actively strangling GEOTHERMAL initiatives by embracing them (deadly embrace).
5. Understand that the 2LT predicts the greatest FREE ENERGY gradients (LIFE!) are closest to Mercury, Venus and the SUN itself. Technologies already exist (Messenger II probe) to provide stable habitats. Using materiel from a Low-G Mercury surface can streamline this. Why NASA and the US in contradistinction choose Mars is a doubly worrying signal that the US is not a true friend.
It is my hope that we can put a leash on the Reaganomic dogs, the dogs of OIL and COAL & WAR. Appropriate all the drilling rigs within our realm & then sit back and enjoy the (GEOTHERMAL Free Energy) GFE show while passing on FREE ENERGY to future generations in the form of an inner solar system outreach.