Sydney to Melbourne inclusive has a population of about ten million. The numbers do stack up, but it's a long term investment – they could go broke if they tried to recoup the capital cost too quickly (the way some road tunnels have; most of the complaints about the tolls are valid.)

There s some scope for the VFTs to carry express freight, but improving the existing railway is the best way to get more freight to switch from road to rail. At the Sydney end where the problem is worst, they're building a large accessible freight terminal in Moorebank.

The eastern seaboard is one of the busiest air routes in the world, and given a VLT could be plying that route for lower fares and over less time, CBD to CBD, there is absolutely no doubt it will be heavily patronised.

A two lane inland canal that utilizes huge 40 foot northern tides both in and out, to create a one way circulating current, quite massively shortens the shipping distance to our Asian customers, and reduces the amount of fuel need to ply the international waterways, has to be a winner, and given it also becomes an extremely reliable source of new and reusable water, a real money earner.

Somebody once said that land was the source of all wealth! Wrong!

Water is the source of all wealth!

And it's hard to lose money on energy projects.

And given we know from overseas experience, very large scale solar thermal projects can be rolled out for comparable costs to conventional coal fired systems, and match them as peak load service providers, have to be a winner, given the fuel is costless and endless.

Given we seem to be governed by so called corporate failures, little wonder there's no future vision in either major party?

And populated by folks whose only answer is to sell the farm and or wait for enterprising foreigners with huge debts, to do it for us; and in so doing,take all the risks?

And nothing could be further from the truth.

We pay down these debts with our patronage, and by paying a premium at the checkout! Time for a rethink and new ideas!

There are plenty of folks who know all the reasons things don't/can't work or are impossible, that's why we still live in caves, wear animal skins and hunt down all our food with a stone tied to a stick!
Rhrosty.

Rhosty, is that multi trillion dollar canal to nowhere all your own idea?