China's economy is in a freefall, yet here they are handing out $ms.

That's socialism for you..

China's economy is in a freefall,
shadowminister,
No free-fall there, it's on a Bungy strap. Just you wait till it is on the way back up ! It's the West that is on the way down without a parachute !
China's greatest asset is its peoples' discipline ! The West is precariously held together by greed !

We have all sorts of inherited problems. We have a, not suitable for use, gas supply lever we can't use! Even if we pull it? Doesn't kick in until next January!

The election of the teals means there's no prospect of any new coal-fired power stations. Burying CO2 is a pipedream given the cost of the pipelines needed!

Manufacturing industries will go broke months at today's energy prices!

The parliamentary party is controlled by powerful unions who hold the wallet. None more powerful than the CMFU. Who currently have a membership of around 12,000.



If we are to rely on renewables? Then it needs to be huge broad scale solar thermal that can retain useful heat for up to a week! That heat retained in super large vacuum vessels using molten salt!

Something the size of forty hectares arid inland wasteland of solar reflectors/heat sinks will power Australia. A thousand hectares, the rest of the world? Doable if the transmission is via graphene cored cables.

I can't imagine how many trillions such a super power project would cost? Suffice to say the same or a better power outcome that depended exclusively on safe, clean, cheapest MSR thorium is doable for less than ten percent of taxpayer funds!

We own 40% of the world's thorium and at least one good commercial deposit of graphene with more available if we value add our iron ore industry!

Plus we have all the rare earths needed for battery manufacture for the electrification of transport! Leveraging foreign money for any of this does SFA for us. If we don't understand by now, it is foreign investment in our economy/stoke energy provision is the reason why we are currently rooted! We never will!

Think, we were once the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a creditor one at that! Idealogorical imperitives driven, selling the allergorical farm has placed were we are now Time to bite the bullet and go back to what made us the third wealthiest nation on the planet! If that means a Sovietized energy industry? So be it!
Alan B.

One of the worst mistakes our generation is committing is the practice of trying to satisfy present (utterly unwarranted) needs without a thought of the near future & the crumbs we leave for them by using it all up now !
Yes, technology is greater than ever however, it also uses resources faster than warranted.
If we want to prevent people from becoming food & energy for future populations then steps must be taken now to reduce population. For that we already have the technology to achieve that in a humane way-birth control ! Far more humane than letting people & mainly children die in agony & way cheaper than welfare.
Fewer people will give us a better chance to co-exist in harmony !

http://techthelead.com/harvard-makes-breakthrough-in-high-temperature-superconductors-as-they-stack-trilayer-graphene/

http://grapheneindustry.org.au/2019/08/room-temperature-superconductivity-search/

http://physicsworld.com/a/squeezed-graphene-becomes-a-superconductor/

http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aav1910

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220603124901.htm

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.047001

http://futuristspeaker.com/technology-trends/building-the-worlds-first-graphene-superconductor-power-grid/

http://link.springer.com/journal/10948/volumes-and-issues/35-4

http://future.fandom.com/wiki/Superconducting_Batteries_(Terra_Futura)

http://scitechdaily.com/new-li-ion-superconductor-enables-safe-high-performance-all-solid-state-batteries/

I don't see the evidence of a graphene energy solution here- doesn't mean there isn't one- I suppose.

Hey Alan B,
What do you make of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower