03-11-2021, 02:19 AM
(03-10-2021, 11:07 PM)LP link Wrote:Australia is a global leader in all the key areas, solar cells, hydrogen, emissions reduction and battery technology. But our local researchers get so poorly funded by the government the inventions are immediately sold off by the parent institutions to foreign investors, then Australia has to buy the technology back as just another ordinary consumer.
If we were serious about Australia's two biggest long term issues, energy and water, we'd have built a nuclear plant next door to a desalination plant decades ago, and right now we'd be planning it's redundancy in the next 20 to 30 years while emitting near zero carbon in the interim!
Nuclear is so far advanced anything else in terms of power output its ridiculous. It's all about the environment with nuclear power....but coal is probably worse for the environment. Call it a marketing exercise to change the thinking and be done with it already.
In terms of Aussies selling ideas overseas....this really needs to be looke at.
Pony up the dollars for proper research and development now and see the benefits for generations.
We have the brains.
We have the desire.
We have the resources.
We have the technology.
We DONT have the backing.
It's ludicrous.