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On the topic of energy exports. All that we earn from this quarter currently, could be replicated or surpassed by exported electricity transmitted to customer countries, via shipping free, carbon-free undersea cables with superconductor, graphene cores. And for as long as it's possible to foresee!

This electricity could be made in MSR burning other folk's nuclear waste and for which we could earn annual billions from for providing a creation type burial service, but only after we'd extracted the remaining unspent 98%+ remaining unspent energy from this energy-dense material.

And in the process reducing the half-life to just 300 years!

Mr Opion and SR , who just bag me and my solutions, would probably want the situation remain as is and the mountain of toxic waste to grow larger and larger as they moan and bitch to high heaven about nuclear energy and any fool, foolish enough to prefer it over intermittent renewables!?

Yes, of course, these cables would cost billions as would the electricity-producing, molten salt reactors! (MSR)

But all able to be financed with the annual billions we'd earn for the nuclear waste cremation/burial service, then the additional billions this shipping free carbon-free exports could earn continuously as more and more customers are sort and found.

Moreover this energy, the cheapest possible!

Would all but force a complete resuscitation of manufacturing in this country and a monolithic exodus to this nation by energy-dependent high tech manufacture.

And assisted by government facilitated cooperative capitalism and the quite massive competition it would add to this hugely monopolised (Coles, Woolworths) cartel economy!

My solutions may not be the best or most practical or affordable, but 100% better than our current, no energy policy, or just business as usual status quo!
Alan B.

And also Al, look what they did to microwaves, not only can you cook your pet rabbit with it, you can also talk to Grandma 500 miles away. How versatile is that?

Yes I'm one, yes I'm two, yes I'm three, yes I'm four, yes I'm five hundred miles away from home.

Maybe there is some way to Astro travel using microwaves. Give it some thought Al before petrol becomes totally unaffordable, and we're all walking!

(And here is the rest sung to the tune of five hundred miles in Am).

If you miss the train I'm on, I'll be cooking like a bun, under the spreading old gum tree, in my microwaveE.

Look there's Nana on my knee, and all my kids surrounding me, all jumped out of my microwaveE on highway three....etc.

Dan

Those 300,000 school children who hit the streets last week to protest on the failure of LNP politicians to address global warming and its consequential climate change problems are 300,000 less votes going to the LNP when these children qualify for the vote in about 6-8 years time. Only an idiot would seriously think that these children are going to change their views in the not too distant future. As an environmental sociologist this is the sort of stuff that makes having spent the time and effort doing all those degrees of mine really worth while.

I never did get any answers to my questions over the years what people expect Govts to do when the people themselves are the perpetrators ?
And, to give them a really good example of THE major cause of GW, we could ask them to support all those people who won't stop breeding even after three or more kids.

Dan.
Line of sight microwaves can and do transfer electrical current. However, if you want to travel somewhere? Then for mine, the best option is an electric vehicle and one fitted with a magnetic induction plate.

This is how our mobile phones are charged now via a magnetic field.

All electricity transmission also includes a magnetic field. Even via graphene!

The magnetic induction plate converts that phenomenon into an electrical charge for the battery even while the vehicle is in motion. Regenerative braking assists.

Under road graphene, as a proven concept, ends forever the lack of range in electric vehicles, while current transmission losses are quite massively reduced by the fact that graphene, apart from being the world's strongest material, is also a superconductor! And presents little resistance to electrical current, so also, cold thorium.

Thorium as the metal can be stretched to a thin wire. Is also slightly magnetic. Used to be used in gas mantles for the old lamp lights.

I believe we should be doing all of the above and allowing other folks to pay the bills with the money we would earn as a repository for all the world' nuclear waste.

In other words, this money could pay for all the R+D, the reactors and the graphene highways and cables then for a few dozen very large capacity deionisation dialysis desalination plants!

All that's envisaged would earn a handsome income as well if cooperative capitalism is also incorporated and the management model! Absolutely, very doable!

We should be putting all our people and resources to work for us and using our 2.5 trillion dollars super fund!

Only deadweight, recalcitrant politicians with their own agendas and political masters prevent any and all the above, I believe.
Alan B.

Al b

I read a where Jacque Lambie is constantly shocked by the childish nature of the political class, which she is not.

Those observations reflect the cushie ride through life of the elite class.
What she means of course is a politicians hard times would never include the event of hunger and lack of money to buy food.

All too common an event starkly familiar to the " excluded out " poor, whose lives are made so much more difficult by the blindness and sheer lack of empathy rampant by political decision makers.

Those in our community who go without food ever shocks me. I come across them periodically. It's mostly not a poverty forced by drugs and alcohol either, as is the stereotype.

Politicians are totally out of touch with a vast array of the population.

Dan