The Australian Greens

Imagine if the spill had of been on the East Coast - you can bet Marn Ferguson wouldn't have succeeded in keeping it off the radar then. Out of sight, out of mind.

James Talbot: typical cheap shot from someone who clearly doesn't give a stuff about anything that doesn't involve his own self amusement. We're about demanding the alternatives which the fossil fuel industries - in collusion with supine or capitalist idealogue governments - have actively worked to deny us for over 100 years!

Ironic fact 18:
The people most against consumerism are the people with the most possessions and money.

Oh goody. An unworkable, unwanted Internet filter. Well at least it comes up to the usual standard of Green technical expertise. Along with fictional energy from Windmills and the like. I also liked his idea of not having a democracy so that he can impose his will on the world. You have Pol Pot hiding in there as well? Sounds ideal.

outspoken supporter of internet censorship!! greens can blow me!!!

Geothermal energy is a GOOD IDEA. However, it has a few set backs.

1. It hasn't been done before, where as Fast Reactors have been running and generating power for decades.

2. By the nature of the technology, the water use is NOT and CAN NOT be a closed system. As quite rightly pointed out, the heat does indeed have a nuclear fission basis. So what happens when you wash actenide material with super hot water under pressure? Any guesses?... Read More

3. You have to take the power plants and the transmission infrastructure to the Hot Rocks, not vice versa. Laying transmission line currently costs between $2-3 million per kilometer.

4. The proponents of Hot Rocks suggest that a site will become COOL ROCK after 15 years of heat generated power. Quite a small time for the life of a commercial plant. You need to shift all that infrastructure again. Five times in a lifetime.

On the other hand.

1. 4GEN IFRs and LFTRs can be built quickly in the locations of the current coal powered stations. The change to transmission infrastructure will be negligable. And removes the need for a 'smart' network (whatever the bloody hell that is).

2. 4GEN reactor technology IS renewable. They can eat ANY actenide. Thorium, depleted Uranium, low level easte, high level waste. In turn the waste they produce has to be stored for 300 years until it is no more radioactive than the dirt around an ore mine. Just using the nuclear 'waste' as fuel we can power the planet for about 1000 years without doing any more mining. By that time I can assume that ALL transportation will not be relying on fossil fuel, so therefore subsequent mining will produce little CO2. Mining the know reserves of Uranium and Thorium at this stage gives us fuel for 100,000 years, 200,000 years, probably longer.

3. It burns all the nasty waste stuff that we don't ant to bury in groundwater, or sell to terrorists.

However, we need to go nuke NOW, or we will waste nuclear fuel that need not be wasted.

well sum 1 has 2 do it ( ;

Go greens!

sensational!!!

Good luck

I can't wait to hear which wonderful Greens person I'll be letterboxing and voting for in Higgins!

It's an interesting area, and is something of a Liberal safe seat, although if I remember correctly there was a swing towards the ALP last Federal election. Also, at State level, the seat of Burwood (the State area I also vote in - there is some ... Read Moregeographic overlap between Higgins and Burwood) used to be safely in the hands of one Jeff Kennet for some 23(ish) years - and now our representative is Bob Stensholt of the ALP.

So it's an area where change is already happening.

are we allowed to "out" these people ? it's like a very bad rocky horror show .... let's show them to the people !

Good stuff guys, keep it up !!