Well how big is the sleigh?

After all, it is expected to carry what, a couple of million tons of presents; and let's not forget all that good cheer and sumptuous repasts as well, as part of the festive season, and all needing to be transported in a timely manner!

This is an excellent segway into one of my favorite subjects, the long term alternatives for fossil fuel; namely, algae based fuel.

Some algae, of which there are hundreds of varieties, are up to 60% oil!

Algae absorb 2.5 times their bodyweight in atmospheric Co2; (carbon) and under optimized conditions, double that bodyweight absorption capacity and their consequent oil content every 24 hours!

Moreover, for just 1-2% of the water normally required by traditional irrigation!

Some types produce ready to use unrefined, jet fuel or diesel. Child's play to extract. Some of the extracted filtrate is first sun dried then crushed. the ex crush material an excellent source of food and arable land free, ethanol industry?

Simple crushing producing ready to use products, with the ready to use green diesel, with a an estimated projected retail price of just 44 cents a litre, and the ready to use jet fuel not much more, even with a fuel excise imposed? (Industry figures)

WE endlessly talk about clean coal while ignoring the most profitable means of making it so; and in so doing save the planet, the water reliant Murray/Darling Basin and all who depend on it for their livelihood!

Which if we were but intelligently led, would already be an algae based broadscale oil industry.

Which could be supported entirely by Melbourne and Adelaide effluent outfall, which after having the nutrient load extracted by this particular mop crop, could go on to support other water reliant agricultural enterprise!

It's just not that hard, only intrangesent recalcitrant pollies, and other so called leaders, who waffle on endlessly, or give mere lip service to the notion of innovation and or startups, make it so?
Rhrosty.

Santa's route/delivery needs was solved when a program was written for
the first computer used for commercial work.
It was written for Lyon's Corner Shops in the UK and ran on LEO 1.
It worked out what and how many of what type of buns etc was to be
loaded in what order so that the right supplies were delivered to the
the correct corner tea and coffee shops.

So you see Santa's problem was solved back in 1951.

http://tinyurl.com/brn7yde

Oil? Everybody knows that Santa's sleigh runs on cold fusion.

I have it on good authority that Santa's sleigh is powered by the methane thrust produced by onions.

Ingested at one end, processed oxidiser + methane = thrust via the Santa's + Eight Reindeers' rear aimed rockets.

Tony Abbott also eats onions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc07UoEWYAA - hence Abbott + his mate Pell's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYzLIywCiA explains their declining aromas.

Merry Christmas

And the after burners cut in when Santa applies a barbeque lighter to the reindeer's methane emitting rear ends. Hence the trailing blue flame?

And the source of the Aussie vernacular, what the blue blazes?

I mean it just looks like a shooting star? Or a satellite dropping from a very low orbit?

If it appears to be traversing a perfect square in the night sky, it means Santa is lost and looking for a familiar landmark?

Ho,ho, ho, A very merry and safe Christmas to one and all.
Rhrosty.

Santa's piece of paper is not a list of good children, it's his delivery schedule. 1.6 billion people at midnight in 8 time zones from Moscow to San Francisco. 48m houses per hour, .8m per minute and 13,000 /second some with no chimney and tight bathroom air-vents.
His red face is just work-pressure and wind burn.