Replace Tasmanian forestry with Thermal mining KAEP? So, that's around a thousand holes at the very least?
And they would have to be very deep and almost prohibitally expensive, to tap into natures thermal resources?
Who would retrain loggers, so that they became competent drillers, handling diamond head drill bits that cost many millions ea, and are so easily and repeatedly destroyed by learner driver drillers?
What do you do with them once all the drilling's done?
Lithium mining?
Rare earth deposits usually include thorium, a radioactive product.
Where would you dispose of or store this by-product?
Where does the money come from to kick start or conclude any of these proposed projects?
Where's the business plan, the research and the profitability prospects/prospectus, without which, little if any investment funds would flow?
Or are you proposing proceeding on blind chance; and or, we further mortgage the future incomes of a steadily decreasing tax paying demographic.
I mean, I quite like and approve of some of these proposals and their long term income stream prospects.
However, One would become much more sympathetic to your ideas, [excluding the racist rant,] if you could just flesh out some of your more worth while ideas.
How do you propose to finance them, who would do the work, and or pay for, the environment impact study, and the years of retraining? Is earn or learn part of the plan, to more or less compel redundant former loggers to comply, with your plans for them?
What happens if the drillers strike significant oil reserves, before the thermal deposits?
I've read one geological survey, which proposes significant oil deposits beneath Tiny Tassie!
And what alternatives would you propose, if any of your interesting innovative imaginative ideas, proved commercially or environmentally, Non-viable?
Rhrosty.

Rhosty,

The whole concept of SUSTAINABILITY is RACIST under your limited intellect.

Yet sustainability is the duty of each and every one of us.

Australia cannot carry more than 20 million souls without competition (for scarce resources) that will turn even the Murray Darling into a dustbowl. Oh it already is I hear you say! YOU are the one with unsustainable ideas and concepts.

Additionally only ONE geothermal site using Hydrogen plasma drilling could totally replace Tas forestry as State income. 3 Gigawatts of power could be exported to Victoria at premium prices to save the Vics from brown coal imposts.

Its NOT that hard. Its not hard at all.

Australia is linked to global financial systems run by computer trading and that is supposed to abbrogate our politicians duty to think. There's the problem and my ideas can and WILL give Australia future security and ONSHORE JOBS in a world teetering on fiscal and civil-law COLLAPSE.

And another thing Rhosty:

Our species was BORN of geothermal well (Africa Rift Valley) Braer Fox!

Kaep
You know how to kill off debate and discussion. Please try to keep to the issues raised by the author of the article.