Max,

If we put ScuMo in charge of bushfire prevention in Antartica he would probably still make a stuff up of it and burn the South Pole to the ground.

PS You were asking me about some appropriate nicknames for ScuMo. How about No-Snow-Sco-Mo.

Josephus, I have considered all the known forms of renewables, and I have found one commonality.
The fewer the moving parts, (mechanisms) the better.
This has been part of my history, career.
The wind mills are simply a fantasy, sure you can get power from them, but at what cost, reliability being the big one, and I don't mean them breaking down/failing, which they are doing at an alarming rate.
You see the short sightedness and eagerness/ignorance of those like the GREENS, thought that it was only a matter of increasing the fan area and you could increase your energy production.
Well that isn't the way it works.
Just think of the dutch, and their WINDMILLS.
Then there are the solar panels, again unreliable although they lead the way with NO moving parts, just not enough power per unit of surface area.
I'll cut to the chase, there are more than one system of reactor based power generation, and they all do not employ any mechanical means.
The one leading the race is water, as in hydro, with only one real moving part.
So back to ZERO moving parts, Nuclear and thorium salt are two that come to mind.
Alan has been promoting thorium, and for the life of me I don't know why it has not been given a research grant 50 years ago.
I can only speculate that the pollies have not figured out a way of skimming money out of it yet.
Nuclear is not the demon it once was, so if we can just kill all the GREENS, or at least attack them leaving them so damaged that they might finally reconsider their stance, that if people are prepared to treat them with such contempt, then maybe, just maybe, they should drop their whole stupid mantra.
So I ask that everyone consider the NEW nuclear, or even thorium salt, as the power generators going forward.

Josephus thinks I want to write a book on ScuMo being in The Lodge instead of make book.

God bless his little heart.

Mr O, now you've reached your natural and obvious low brow bogan level.
If your going to insult or abuse do it like a man.
Frankly your childish, churlish manner is not welcome here.
We all throw sh!t at each other, as and when, but you, you just keep on, and I'm wondering if you suffer from some mental abnormality, like that Swedish maggot.
If so then I apologise and simply ask/suggest, politely that you tone it down a little, or save it for when someone attacks you, the moderators may feel you were justified under those circumstances, but if not and this IS your normal level of social interaction and intercourse then I must give you a heads up, you WILL be reported.

ALTRAV,

For the second time, STOP READING MY COMMENTS.

"Alan has been promoting thorium, and for the life of me I don't know why it has not been given a research grant 50 years ago."

Thorium WAS given a small grant over 50 years ago, but they shut it down exactly 50 years ago this Christmas just gone.

JFK and Jackie toured this reactor.

http://energyfromthorium.com/2019/12/24/msre-shutdown-50th

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment