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Climate change and electric vehicles : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 10/11/2017

What the ACT Government has done is to commission solar and wind generation, much of it outside the ACT, that is a contribution to the grid.

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Nuclear powered cars? Has anybody come even close to suggesting that!? Everybody except resident fools, everybody knows that one plugs said electric car into a power socket! And the pays for the recharge as PKH.

Be it wind, solar, hydro, coal, a guy in thermal underwear peddling very fast, to keep warm and the exercise bike, turning an alternator, or nuclear!

That said, a nuclear powered car is not as silly as it seems, with some scientists working on a prototype that uses a laser beam to excite a few grams of thorium, which in turn heats a gas, CO2? Which then turns a turbine, which then turns an alternator?

[8 grams of thorium enough, it would seem, to power the car for a hundred years without refuelling?]

Even with those steps? Far fewer moving parts than a modern gasoline powered car.

Incidentally, China is on target to manufacture around a million electric cars this year, more next year and more the year after that. Costing around $17,000.00 each and with a range of around 200 kilometres.

Moreover, without subsidised production. And expects to completely outlaw any conventional powered production by 2020?

What we could conceivably do here, is build a nice big roomy carbon fibre, autonomous vehicle, then power it with a thorium powered miniaturised power plant and end forever the tyranny of distance in wide fair land!

It'd be impossible to supply the international market for a hundred years or more! At which time, we'd likely have to tool for the new model!?

One would still have to re gas the air conditioner, the turbine, change light bulbs, wiper blades, tyres, brake rotors, brake pads, steering components, the odd wheel bearing, shocks and the battery, for the entire operational life of the vehicle!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 10 November 2017 8:39:22 PM
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Hasbeen:
You of all people would be an expert in this area! And we all bow to your expertise!

After all they tried to "polish you" so as to try to make you appear a suitable and thoughtful candidate, governed solely by logic's rites?

Rather than an overbearing (hard right) ideologue, who rarely if ever bothers with fact checking or things like common courtesy and or civility! Or just giving credit when and where it's due!

Just rubbish anything too technical or not from the (coal fired) 18th century!

And about where you and your current (it's all about me) calcified mindset belong. As with a royal wave of your royal purple pinkies you just dismiss our only possible future, along with any and all inconvenient truths!

Overruled by advancing dementia and the absolute certainty of knowing, you are always right? And such a comfort!

You've heard about the V8 that got quite startling mileage? With the simplicity of only firing four cylinders while cruising and only firing up all 8 under load?

The first may be described as the waning (cool) phase and the second the waxing (hot lap) phase! Understand yet, genius?

You all have a nice day now y'hear.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 11 November 2017 8:16:10 AM
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Alan B for goodness sake make a thorium reactor and make yourself rich! Give us a rest from your nonsense. If it worked it would be done so it obviously does not work.
Give it a rest idiot!
Posted by JBowyer, Saturday, 11 November 2017 10:44:16 AM
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Just to be pedantic, turds can be polished, if they are old enough.

http://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2010/08/10/coprolites-a-few-words-on-prehistoric-turds/
Posted by Is Mise, Saturday, 11 November 2017 4:35:30 PM
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If it could be done it would have been done? It was At Oak Ridge Tennessee. And stopped by that paragon of virtue, President Nixon because it couldn't be easily or safely weaponized!

A number of countries are rolling out R+D on it and they include China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia and Czechoslovakia. Just to name a few!

We are bound to look as dumb as drink water, if near neighbour and coal producer/exporter Indonesia, has a walk away safe, molten salt thorium reactor before we do!

Yes I know a few folk would sooner I shut up about it, given it could kill coal, traditional nuclear and virtually every renewable!

I mean, you tell me which one of those could produce reliable power for a tad under 2 cents P.K.H! Moreover, can any renewable or coal produce Bismuth 213. Already a proven miracle cure for a number of nasty, death sentence cancers! Some given just hours to live!

So why should I shut up, folks on death row won't thank me and I couldn't go to my maker if I didn't give it my best go including getting some material on walk away safe thorium reactors to Four Corners.

Stop? No way, I've only just begun and if I have to get you folk just to look at the facts one by one, then that's what I'll do!

NO I WILL NOT SHUT UP!

Check out Super Fuel, subtitled, green energy, Or enter the case for thorium into your search engine and see what nuclear technologist Kirk Sorensen thinks about it or the Author of, Thorium cheaper than coal, Professor Hargreaves thinks. Along with a dozen or more highly qualified highly credentialed scientists!

And the very last thing the detractors want! Cause they know if any thinking rational human, not in the fossil fuel industries big pockets, will have no choice but to join me in advocating for economic sanity and thorium!

If it hadn't been starved of funding, because of a political and or economic imperative, we'd all have one in our backyard by now!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 11 November 2017 9:58:24 PM
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Sorry Alan B you are entitled as anyone to state your point of view. If Nixon stopped it that means forty plus years ago, why the continuing delay then. Mind you your first part said IF?
Posted by JBowyer, Sunday, 12 November 2017 2:09:30 AM
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