Dear Alan B.,

Thanks for that.
I don't know enough about the subject - so I appreciate
your expertise.

I guess we shall have to wait and see what our future holds -
regarding our energy options in this country.
Hopefully - it shall be left
up to the experts to guide us in the best possible direction.

India has no molten salt reactor .The Indian government recently (Feb 2017) agreed to increase the capacity of six AP-1000 reactors, to be built by USA’s Westinghouse Co in Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh, to 1208 MW each. These are uranium , baby , green glow hot rock.

" Australian and Chinese researchers have made progress in understanding the mechanical properties of a new class of materials for use in molten salt reactors (MSRs).

Although there are no commercial MSRs in operation, there is an MSR and thorium energy research and development program at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (Sinap), with which Antso has a partnership agreement. " Alan is naughty.

You're welcome Foxy, "Mate".

Nick has pointed out that India hasn't as yet built a walk away safe, molten salt, thorium reactor?

But allegedly has one on the drawing board. As does Brazil, South Africa and Near Neighbour Indonesia, along with a multitude of others.

We for our part have, I believe, a research relationship in this area with research partner Czechoslovakia?

It would be passing strange if we turned our collective back on energy with a quoted price just south of 2 cents P.K.H. (Professor Hargreaves) as the median.

And believable if there's no enormously expensive containment vessel nor also horrendously expensive special purpose hardened building!

Moreover, even more believable when one understands that thorium the most energy dense material on earth! Contains as much as 200 times energy as uranium and 2,000 times less waste!

Imagine what sort of world we could leave for those who follow, if we used this clean, safe, cheap energy as a premier source of power for new, space age, deionization dialysis desalination? That when tested recently in Texas, produced 90% potable water for quarter of the cost of traditional desal!

Making broad scale irrigation financially viable!

We could not only reverse man made climate change, but centuries of desertification! As well as all that implies, for world wide poverty reduction/refugee repatriation etc/etc!

Cheers "mate", Alan B.

Oh I thought the Great Barrier Reef was destroyed in 1975,1980,1985,1990,1995,2000,2005,2010,2015, oh that's right its only got 5 years left even though China has over 1000coal plants compared to our 30 or so. Do any under 35's think these days or do they listen to the swamp? Please Donald send a brother or cousin or someone.

"Focus Fusion reactor would produce electricity from fusion reactions released mainly in the form of a high-energy, pulsed beam of helium nuclei.. Such an electrical transformation can be highly efficient, probably around 70%.. The steam turbines and electrical generators are eliminated. A 5 MW Focus Fusion reactor may cost around $300,000 and produce electricity for 1/10th of a cent per kWh. Fuel costs will be negligible because a 5 MW plant will require only five pounds of fuel per year."

White ants vibrate terminal mandibles at 600Mhz in resonance assimilators inducing receptor bi-hydrides on cadmium exotubes. Boosted to 5000MW/ second in pulsed ambience, a $50 timber biocell exports electricity for .005 cents kWh and much less on the drawing board.

Oh god, more hysterics about not very much.

Don't know much about the mine, as I am just not interested. Queensland is a pretty big place, you could dig a hole big enough to bury little Victoria in, & barely notice it.

As for damaging the reef, what utter garbage. Hardy Reef, the one I used to run a 250 passenger boat to 5 times a week has a lagoon of 7500 acres, with the drying reef forming the lagoon about 30 nautical miles long. With a 16Ft tidal range it varies from 4 Ft dry to 12 Ft deep.

It forms a reef complex with the permanently submerged Hook & Line reefs covering a total area of 15,000 acres. You could run a ship a month onto these reefs, & they would barely notice. In fact the marine life would love it if you did, & left them there. Fish love sunken ships.

These 3 are a very small group compared to many, & the Net, Knuckle & Kennedy group a little further out are larger, & the Swains off Mackay cover in excess of 2000 square miles, again just a small part of the reef.

Anyone who claims ships can harm the reef is either a fool or a liar, or probably both if they are educated. You could stick a hundred ships on the reef today, & just one or 2 cyclones later, you would have difficulty finding any evidence it had happened.