The solution has always been thorium. But resisted by the implacably opposed, seventh enemy within!

Why? Because it's not labor party policy!

Why not? Because it's not labor party policy!

Yes you've told me that a thousand times before, but never ever, why not?

Because Dumbo, it's not labor party policy!

Then we wonder why we have an energy crisis?

Refusal to act when decisive action is called for is the reason we're welded to coal and opposed to, for peaceful purpose, nuclear energy!
Alan B.

Well spotted Alan B. SA has about 25% of the world's uranium that comes with a lot of thorium that currently goes to tailings or backfill. SA should be powering the rest of Australia and if need be burying the reduced waste up past Woomera. Fiddling about with batteries is almost comical. Like those monks on a rocky island in the Irish Sea who starved because they wouldn't eat fish.

Taswegian, tell us more about those monks living in the Irish Sea who starved because they would not eat fish? This could give us many insights into a failures to solve modern problems.

JB a TV commentator said the monks of Skellig Michael shunned fish but other media say they ate fish
http://oldmooresalmanac.com/the-skellig-islands-the-home-of-very-lonely-monks/
There are other examples of religion preventing taking the necessary steps for self preservation. For example the US cult the Shakers took a vow of celibacy then wondered why no young people were adding to their dwindling ranks. Same goes for modern energy. The green religion says it has to be wind, solar and batteries or nothing.

Let's face it....South Australians, by way of apathy and phlegmatic behaviour have turned monetary waste into an art form.

The number of industrious South Australians that have left the state over the last 40 years is mind boggling, and I would even go as far to say that Queensland's surge forward after the '88Expo way down to disenchanted South Australians
The choice was leave or get a lobotomy so as to endure.

It's capacity for gross mismanagement started with Labour's Bannon and on to this very day.
They want change, but don't want to change anything. That's got to tell you there's something very very wrong

It's not ordinary South Australians at fault here but the seventh enemy within. These are the money wasting folk at the helm, making all our common decisions while pretending to care as they sell us and our best possible future down the river of no return!

Ably assisted by a power junkie lunatic fringe,i.e., the gormless green movement! Unable or unwilling to understand that nuclear energy, is both our cheapest carbon free energy and is cheaper, safer and cleaner than coal and certainly, much, much cheaper than any of their preferred and horrendously expensive renewables!

All while knowingly and deliberately denying thousands the only cure left them. Nuclear medicine, namely miracle medicine, bismuth 213! If it were their kid with hodgkin's or brain cancer, they'd be instant convert, believe me!
Alan B.