Chris,

We have common ground then which is positive. My concern is that we may embark on a journey that firstly must lay waste to what we have without knowing the objective can be achieved.To embark on any venture not knowing the outcome is folly. Essentially what those calling for 'action' hope for is that we can control climate. In other words that we can control warming. I need convincing that objective is achievable and further, that we then can control global cooling when the next cooling period begins. It is a big call for anyone to say we control the natural order of things. As far as I am aware, there is no scientific finding that CO2 is even the problem - lots of projections and theories, but no confirming science. Science is not about consensus despite all claims to the contrary.

Here's the thing, we could force the big three to turn around and replace coal-fired energy with safer cleaner more reliable and vastly cheaper nuclear energy by threatening their market share.

And as simple as building a couple of dozen reactors with other folks gifted money. As annual billions, we earn as the world's safest repository for its nuclear waste.

Waste which in MSR is just unspent free fuel that'll power this nation for thousands of years with carbon-free energy we can export to an energy-dependent world for a handsome profit and for less than they can make it at home with any other fuel.

We'd have all the energy dependant high tech manufacturing queuing to relocate here!

And all the incentive for the big three to decarb and follow us with Thorium and carbon-free power for less than 3 cents PKWH in MSR's.

Those that'll claim a huge timeline, need to understand that the shortest build and commission time for a nuclear power plant remains 6 short months!

Nothing except the missing Leadership and political will prevents us emulating that example with a working, tried and tested MSR prototype! A FUJI 350 MW? TBC.
Alan B.

There are folk who wax on day and night about the limited range of electric vehicles. As a reason for not electrifying the national fleet.

Yet throw their phone down onto charging pad to recharge it without plugging it in! Not understanding that such pads could be thousands of miles long. As a highway with a graphene underlay. Graphene is the strongest material on the planet and a superconductor.

And all we'd need would be a cling wrap thin layer under the tarmac or concrete, to transmit the nation's energy virtually anywhere. And power the endless recharge pads our highways and byways would become.

Given we import all our vehicles now, probably won't be able to buy anything other than full-electric vehicles by 2035?

The bonus would be graphene reinforced roads and bridges that'd need little maintenance for centuries.

Add graphene fibre (200 times stronger than steel) to concrete/plaster to make the world's strongest fibreboard. In layered fibreglass to make the strongest ship/submarine hulls!

And as reinforcing rods to make buildings that take a nuclear blast and stand! There are no downsides here and money has never been cheaper. Where delay (our record) doubles the cost by the decade!

Nothing gets cheaper or easier with delay. The problem is invariably missing skilled labour and can be imported as guest labour!

Guest labour that transfers skills to Resident Australians, via an intelligent, accompanying apprenticeship scheme.

So, stop with the BS delay and BS excuses for doing SFA.
Alan B.

We have long passed the point of no return........

has BOM updated its advice to the Government it gave not long back not to expect any decent rain until at least April? And these same jokers want to tell us what's going to happen in 20 years. Talk about gullible.

When the proposed solutions come with a truly massive economic upside! What possible reason can there be for failure to act!?

Imagine a graphene highway powered by the world's cheapest possible electricity and cars trucks and buses that power on by the usual gas stations without needing to pause? Well that sort of scenario would send the three trillion a year, fossil fuel industry broke and the oil exporters destitute.

So one can rest assured they are going to bag it and me as often as they can, through their operatives/lackeys and spit lickle dropkicks.

Ditto big nuclear which would be bankrupted by a change to much much safer, and vastly cheaper MSR.

Ditto big pharma which earns billions from palliative care and at risk by the accompanying creatin of cheap as chips, bismuth 213. And instead of medicating dying folk to stupidity, we'd simply send them to remission and without harming healthy tissue the way big pharma's chemo does now?

Ignore the fact that al I have proposed deals with manmade climate change and just look at the business case, economics only! And then fault it if you can, I dare you!

Add in real tax reform and deionisation and my case goes from strength to strength as well as drought-proofing the nation.

Plus create thousands and thousands of new economic opportunities, as does the acceptance and renewal of cooperative capitalism to underpin the entire proposal and massively turbocharge it!

It's all there just needs folk able to use the brains they were born with and the national interest at heart to implement it! Those whose real objection is the loss of coal revenue or jobs, need to take butchers at the periodic table and understand, this transition will create many more mining jobs and incomes than coal currently supports!

And allow us to create an economic template of unprecedented prosperity the world will have no choice but follow!
Alan B.