Standing Bear wrote..
Tis not energy that the Indonesians would seek, but food!
After reading the width of the text I had to re-check to verify it was
Australia and not Texas as the focus.
And then I remembered Texas has already been invaded and captured by the
latinos. About all that c
On Monday 22 May 2006 18:55, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
> Prime Minister,
>
> As well as having Uranium resources among the largest in the
> World, Australia has about ..
And that is about as far as some would read. Put the word 'uranium' with a
low population density continent thousands of
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 22 May 2006 09:55:20
-0400:
Hi,
[snip]
>Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
>
>>Not quite true. Wind is still slightly more expensive than coal or
>>gas, Solar thermal more expensive than wind.
>
>Only when you ignore the social cost of pollution and mining.
Whi
Hi Andreas,
This is a copy of a letter sent to the letters pages of major
Australian newspapers (which they don't appear inclined to print),
and copied to the PM.
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Prime Minister,
As well as having Uranium resources among the large
Prime Minister,
As well as having Uranium resources among the largest in the
World, Australia has about a million square kilometers of desert
admirably suited to the collection of solar energy, and pretty
much useless for anything else. In fact we could more than supply
the entire planet with sola
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>The great irony is that we have had a solution to both large scale
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
Not quite true. Wind is still slightly more expensive than coal or
gas, Solar thermal more expensive than wind.
Only when you ignore the social cost of pollution and mining. If U.S.
electric power companies were forced to pay the normal compensation
that any other
In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Sat, 20 May 2006 17:28:08
+1000:
Hi,
[snip]
>The problem that needs to be dealt with is not cheep generation of
>energy. We have that in spades,
Not quite true. Wind is still slightly more expensive than coal or
gas, Solar thermal more expensive than wind.
Robin wrote:
> Using dirt cheap paper thin plastic cylindrical Fresnel lenses,
> with the actual plumbing lying on the surface, and hence requiring
> no supporting structure, combined with "selective surface"
> technology, solar could be 10-100 times cheaper than it currently
> is (guesstimat
Howdy Robin and Wesley,
Australia has the interesting opportunity to perform in the world. For
sure, we will return to a simplier way of life if for no other reason than we
can't afford the luxury of any more advances in civilization .
The advances in battery technology can provide the sol
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
Prime Minister,
As well as having Uranium resources among the largest in the
World, Australia has about a million square kilometers of desert
admirably suited to the collection of solar energy, and pretty
much useless for anything else. In fact we could more than
Prime Minister,
As well as having Uranium resources among the largest in the
World, Australia has about a million square kilometers of desert
admirably suited to the collection of solar energy, and pretty
much useless for anything else. In fact we could more than supply
the entire planet with sola
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