Thinkabit; No need to worry about DNA testing, tribal recognition etc
anyone can identify as an aborigine, even a man as an aboriginal woman
I wonder if "she" could attend woman's secret business ?
Another one or two hundred years and it will no longer be a question.

Whoops, wrong thread.

If you find it hard to imagine a Sydney Harbour's worth of water flowing inland From an inexhaustible source, the ocean. Then they only need to go look at this virtually Happening every twelve or so hours, as northern tide empty and fill several estuarine systems.

A channel cut from the northwest, would only need be cut through one range of very low hills to reconnect Lake Erie to the ocean. Solar-powered lock gates, automatically operated by tidal hight, could open them at the top of the tide and close them again when it has dropped a couple of feet. Forcing around 38 feet of water to flow just one way.

We could place a dozen or more waste burning MSR's alongside and use them to power an equal number of very large deionisation dialysis desalination plants that could be utilized to supply irrigation water for cotton and rice and anything else that needs guaranteed reliable potable, affordable water on demand!
Alan B.

As we burn this nuclear waste MSR's we release over 90% of still unspent energy from material that may have powered a 350 MW nuclear reactor for 30+ years, with as little as 1-5% of the available/potential energy quotient!

The waste from that one reactor, ie.g., will power one MSR for over 2,000 years! And in the process reduce the half-life of the nuclear waste/unspent fuel to 300 years!

The completely depleted plutonium product is eminently suitable as long life space batties, stabilises ni around 30 years and burns up with reentry!

Moreover, should the world ever recover its sanity? Weapons-grade plutonium can also be burnt as fuel in MSR's! You'd sooner leave it in the weapons? All that I've described in the foregoing is both doable and affordable using the suggested funding paradigm.

So, what prevents it and the nuclear energy we will have to transition to over the next 7-10 years?

Nothing whatsoever, save recalcitrant, tin-eared (rabbits frozen in the headlights) pollies serving powerful vest interests/their political masters!?

If there's any other logical rational reason, it completely escapes me!
Alan B.

P.S. Was recently canvassed on what topics I would like addressed here! All of the above, cooperative capitalism and why there's no other option and the positives for all of us, economically, given we address and remove poverty in all its forms and guises And a mutually incompatible objective, with conservative ideology

We only create 1.3% of the carbon pollution creating climate change and with it, exacerbated extreme weather events, floods, droughts and firestorms that no longer are prevented from becoming catastrophic by the drying out of former natural barriers, i.e., Swamps and rainforests.

Yet if we add together all those countries that like us are down in the 1% range, together we put out more than China. So if we all of us halved our minor pollution.

We'd reduce world carbon pollution significantly, then justify putting a carbon tariff on all exported goods and services. That unified action on the part of the smallest polluters would all but compel the larger polluters to follow suit and reduce emissions ASAP!

More so, if we gave them a transferable economic imperative to do so and follow.

And exactly what would happen as soon as we roll out operational MSR thorium! And all the economic benefits that would accrue as we became an energy superpower!

A well know economist explained, you could make as many new economists as you needed, just by teaching two words, supply and demand, to parrots? ( and maybe pollies pretending to understand?)

In the interim, we need to reduce our emissions and adapt to climate change and the vastly increased energy demands that will require of us!
Alan B.

Solar-powered lock gates, automatically operated by tidal hight, could open them at the top of the tide and close them again when it has dropped a couple of feet.
Alan B,
Too efficient, the "experts won't be able to syphon enough money off the insipid bureaucrats !