Tas, it was Origin that pulled out of that project.
The only problem I could find out was that there was a corrosion problem.
The government needs to take it up and try and make it work.

Taswegian, SA's electricity connection capacity to the eastern seaboard is very limited. The economic case for nuclear in SA is weak as it is; weaker still with the additional cost of transmitting most of the electricity we generate thousands of kilometres.

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ttbn, the political system in other states is just as dysfunctional, but with more money.

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Rhrosty, nuclear power (whether from thorium or uranium) would not give us the world's cheapest electricity. As I've told you many times before.

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Hasbeen, you claim it's a fact that "The fact is 80% of our primary school teachers, & almost 60% of high school teachers could not do such an apprenticeship without remedial courses". What's the evidence for that?

Whether you like it or not, service industries are where a lot of the money is nowadays.

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plantagenet, the federal Liberals promised the next batch of submarines would be built in SA. Now they appear to be trying to renege.

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kirby483, cutting land tax would do nothing to help SA businesses; it would just make land more expensive.

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diver dan, wasn't that on ABC2?

Ice seems to have hit country Vic and NSW hardest. What makes you think it would be worse in SA?

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Bazz, nuclear submarines would be of no use to Australia. They can only operate in deep water, so are useless for espionage.

We could easily synthesise diesel and petrol from coal. It's more expensive than importing it, but technically it's not difficult.

And wind and solar are not failures.

Where Aidan says:

"plantagenet, the federal Liberals promised the next batch of submarines would be built in SA. Now they appear to be trying to renege"

Golly. That's news to me http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/liberals-in-south-australia-nervous.html .

Pete
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