GTC and that’s what needs to change. People perception is far too often what makes or breaks a technology.
Nuclear is always given a bad wrap because everybody thinks of bombs but the thing is we wouldn’t exist if the nuclear reation we call the sun didn’t exist! Nuclear reactions made everything around us so it seems silly to me not to make use of it. Of course safety steps have to be taken every step of the way but every technology has its limits, it just so happens nuclear limits are far fewer than solar and wind.

I spoke to a guy from exciton science (which is backed by five Australian University’s) and mentioned current solar panels inability to be recycled and he said they are working on a completely recyclable solar panel but so far it uses lead and is liquid based and only lasts a few hours before failing! The first panels they made only lasted minutes. Recyclable solar panels have so far to come it’s not funny.

The major political problem with nuclear remains dealing with that part of the residue of the reaction that remains highly radioactive. There are numerous practical solutions but the anti-nuclear faction is totally and proudly deaf to any/all of them.

When I camp for three or more nights, as I did last weekend I take two big 12 volt batteries and a 300 watt solar panel. This keeps my fridge, telly, mobile phone charger and laptop, plus my camp lighting going indefinitely. The camp fridge isn't a small one - a Waeco CF80 dual zone job which chews power like there's no tomorrow but it does an excellent job at keeping things like ice creams and super doopers cold!

I need the big solar panel because if the days are overcast - and this does happen sometimes - a smaller one isn't strong enough to recharge the batteries in such weather. This is a basic calculation that often goes overlooked, along with the lack of wind resulting in no wind power, by greenies and tree huggers.

Few of them have any electrical experience or qualifications - therefore their climate crap is just panic-derived rhetoric that spawns from universities who seem content with turning their students into activists instead of engineers and scientists.

Yes being a greenie is not the type of person I aspire to be!
I don’t have a problem with solar panels, especially on a small scale but power the whole grid? No way! It’s completely ridiculous and can you imagine the size of the battery’s required for a system like that? It would cost 100’s of billions and just be a total flop!

I look at the grid as a legacy system designed for coal and because of that should be replaced with a power source that meets the requirements and neith wind or solar do. Maybe hydro but it only goes so far. That’s why nuclear the answer to me. It’s stable, continuous and reliable. Yes radioactive waste is an issue but that’s why places like India are building fusion reactors so there would be no waste!

I just wish labour would stop saying they would go carbon neutral when they have no plan whatsoever. In a interview I saw on the ABC Anthony Albanese stated that they would still mine and export coal to other countries while Australia somehow becomes carbon neutral? What on earth is he on about? The easiest way to go carbon neutral is to get the mining industry to dig up thorium instead! That makes everybody happy and would be truely carbon neural.

Labor being in bat for the coal worker is a smoke screen. Labor only supports the mining and export of coking coal, which is ideal for steel-making. Power stations require steaming coal. Australia mines both these types of coal but more steaming coal is exported than coking coal. China is our biggest customer and they have scaled back on the amount of steaming coal they buy off us though they know this embargo is hurting their ability to run the large number of power stations they have, as coal from other countries doesn't have the same thermal efficiency. This was supposedly a pay back for Australia doing something to offend China though I forget what it actually was, since most of what we do seems to offend the Chinese Government.

So the Labor Party want mines digging up steaming coal closed, eventually, but the Greens want all coal mines closed. If that ever eventuated, our way of life would go back to about 5000BC.

Yes you pose a good point about steel manufacturing. I’ll have to look further into this and how the process works. You are very right with Chinese government, you just reminded me of when a Chinese spy tried to be a liberal MP! With Australia so reliant on China we could be wiped out very fast by China and I’d rather not think about it but it’s a possibility that we face. If we could stop using steaming type coal completely we’d be a lot better off. I’m interested in carbon capture machines and they could have a great use if they work well enough

The disorderly breakdown of society continues...

Man goes berzerk when there was no flour left: https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-supermarkets-brawl-nsw-lismore...

Shoppers screaming at each other: https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-panic-buying...

The Lord of the flies is unfolding!

1963 version of course! Not this new crap

Now that Dutton has recovered from his bout of the virus he says he's coming after the profiteers who he claims are the key movers behind the stripping of shop shelves of toilet paper, etc,:

QUOTE: Police and Australian Border Force have launched a joint bid to catch people suspected of hoarding supermarket goods and selling them on the black market in Australia and overseas amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said he believed the original panic buying of toilet paper and other items in Australia was sparked by profiteers.

"We do have some people who are profiteering, they are hoarding not for their own consumption," he told 2GB's Ray Hadley on Thursday morning.

"I think they are either selling some of the product overseas or they are selling it in a blackmarket arrangement in Australia. I'm going to come after those people and I'll give them a fair warning now: it won't be a pretty experience when we deal with them.

There are people out there who are parking expensive cars on the street because their garages are full of bog rolls and other much needed commodities. They are trying to flog it all on Ebay. A 24 pack of Quilton bog rolls starts off at $60.00. If anyone even entertained the thought of buying, they need Dutton's left boot up their clacker. He's a man of gumption, so expect the right one to have already been put to work.

Quite so, how can there possibly be 8,000 to 11,000 sellers of dunny rolls with stock on ebay?
Just log on and see!
I ordered a roll from a 97% reseller for fun.
A week now, tracking order set up,no dunny roll yet.
Will I ever see it ?
Not (f ) likely!
Go Dutton!

I was thinking of doing a purchase and then leaving a Neg for the seller - for being a bog roll scalper. If money wasn't an object I'd do it.

That said, I'm not sure what these store-stripping profiteers can be charged with.

Madness continues...

Public toilets stripped bare:

https://www.9news.com.au/national/dunny-roll-wiped-out-in-regional-victoria/c944cb91-467b-43a6-a10c-f28bd5b53fc2

Up in the hills, south of Talbingo, we stopped for a break and a spot of fly fishing. It gave me the opportunity to take a few photos and then wonder what the hell one of my mates was up to when he started a commotion - I thought he caught a fish but it was actually a tiger snake (the fourth or fifth deadliest snake in the world and common in Australia's alpine regions) that caught up with him and was in a strike pose. He made it out of the tussocks, barely.

The snake then hid and watched us as I waited for an opportunity to take a photo, which I may add, never came. I did take one of it hiding in the grass and he didn't know we knew where he was but we did indeed know. They can hide very well, as the pending photo will show, but after this it disappeared.

Anyway, to the point of this post, there were two drop bogs there and both were stripped of their supply of dunny rolls. The wrappers were still there and the holders can carry five rolls each, so there was plenty taken. This is just out and out theft and the guilty one should be tied up near the banks of the creek and left to the clemency of the tiger snakes.