Banjo. A couple of your points deserve comment/clarification.
Your suggestion about nuclear power is useful, except that the stations will probably need to be quite large. Also, researchers have been trying to produce useful amounts of energy from thorium since the 1960s. In theory it is a simple process, just add U233 to Thorium and away it goes, but the actual physical problems have so far been difficult. With regard to electric cars, I suspect that shortly, they will be run on electricity derived from Hydrogen via very efficient fuel cells. At the moment, both Hyundai and Toyota both have a car running in Australia. There are also some private individuals working in this area too It takes 41.4 KwHours to produce 1 kg of H2. That is probably a bit too much for a home solar system to support a daily commute.
David

One might well ask Morrison et al the same question and get the same answer.
VK3AUU,
If you're referring to my post then where did Morrison spruik to no end about Climate Change targets like Shorten did.
So, your reply is in fact utterly pointless.

He might not have spruiked about then during the election campaign, but the governments practical solutions are also as useful as the tits on a bull.
David

but the governments practical solutions are also as useful as the tits on a bull.
VK3AUU,
So, what'd be your idea of a practical solution ?

Individual.
Easy. Build a couple of nuclear power stations at Hazelwood and another couple at Liddell and one in Queensland. And we had better stsrt on them now before the old coal fired power stations are closed down. We have already lost Hazelwood and Liddell is due to go in 2022.
David

VK3AUU,
I'm not against nuclear power but I'm against having them too close to inhabited area just in case.
As I'm a total ignoramus re nuke power, I was wondering what the viability would be of several small stations rather than just a few big ones. Would there be any advantage from a safety point of view ? Sort of like having nuclear powered Navy ships but on land.
Some posters here appear to be qualified to comment on that suggestion.
I'd like to think that a mishap in a small plant would be less of a problem than in a huge one.
Is the cooling water from a Nuke power station radioactive & how much water would be constantly required ? Could a Bradfied scheme cope with the amount needed ?