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Clean energy for Australia: the elegant solution : Comments

By Tom Biegler, published 13/1/2025

Long ago, in high school maths, I was taught about the value of 'elegant solutions'. A correct answer might be good; an elegant correct one is better.

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Posted by ateday

"The energy problem" is a follow on affect of the overpopulation problem. Much as is the housing crisis."

A- Kudos Ateday- I agree.
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Nuclear seems to be the only option until Inertial Confinement Fusion becomes available. But modular reactors appear safer due to lifecycle containment. Over time it might be possible to miniaturize fusion for cars.

We probably don't have enough Lithium in the world and batteries are something like 10x less energy dense than gasoline.

Maybe installing electromagnets in roads will help with the recharge time and enable smaller batteries (or perhaps supercapacitors or Hydrogen fuel cells). Definitely an expensive problematic solution.

If we could mine CO2 from the atmosphere for gasoline we wouldn't need to replace the car infrastructure. Recycle/ Reuse/ Reduce.

Offroad applications will probably always require petrol.

If we don't need to rely as much on the mideast for oil it will have geopolitical benefits
Posted by Canem Malum, Tuesday, 14 January 2025 2:50:44 AM
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Apparently, BMW have made some interesting progress with Hydrogen engines. 4x4 Zeppelin cars anyone perhaps ?
The electric car could work ok within Suburbia but for interstate driving & boating & farm machinery etc. I think it'd be wiser to back Hydrogen rather than the pollution driving batteries !

Electric cares are pushed by those who already made them but can't sell them to get their investment back.
Germany is already having huge problems with windfarms. And, America ? Geez, just read the following from someone in LA;
The devastating Los Angeles fires were entirely the fault of Climate Change.
1. If only Climate Change hadn’t failed to clear the undergrowth.
2. If only Climate Change hadn’t failed to perform controlled burns around residential estates before the fire season started.
3. If only Climate Change hadn’t failed to build the water reservoirs that Los Angeles residents voted for in a referendum about ten years ago.
4. If only Climate Change hadn’t cut the fire department’s budget by millions of dollars just months before the fires started.
5. If only Climate Change hadn’t forgotten to ensure fire hydrants around Los Angeles could actually pump water.
6. If only Climate Change hadn’t stopped the Los Angeles Fire Department from hiring firefighters based on merit.
7. If only Climate Change hadn’t fired more than 100 firefighters for not taking the experimental Covid vaccine.
8. If only Climate Change hadn’t allowed arsonists to walk around lighting fires.
9. If only we could find this Climate Change person and arrest him.
Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 14 January 2025 3:23:26 PM
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https://www.facebook.com/gary.stanley.988/videos/1547404056661969/?vh=e&extid=MSG-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C
Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 14 January 2025 3:26:41 PM
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It's interesting that the Californian Fire Officer said that the most important thing in the fire service is diversity, not fighting fires. Maybe that's why the fires are so bad.
Posted by Canem Malum, Thursday, 16 January 2025 8:11:41 PM
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Canem Malum,
The real worry is the panel that selected this Fire chief. The Woke movement has contributed to the mayhem modern society has morphed into ! The sooner we get a form of national Service the more chance we give our survival !
Posted by Indyvidual, Monday, 20 January 2025 6:12:07 AM
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