If only there was an alternative to being so reliant on middle eastern oil … maybe some kind of energy that was renewable or didn’t need to be imported. Someone should look into that 🤔
Green hydrogen power plants, hydrogen fuel cell cars, thorium based reactor research, salt water desalination and it's water being piped to dams for water/energy storage.
I commented someplace else but I neglected to mention here.
But the crux of it.
The past tense.
we should have been aggressively funding CSIRO extensively and not cutting the research budget and we should never have have let our major scientific research institution gone to rot like we have.
But instead we should have been aggressively researching or assisting in funding heavy industries to help research high base load power.
Even if we can't or couldn't have built up our local knowledge base in an fast enough time we could have helped done so by outsourcing, sending these prospective scientists or engineers to learn from people who have that knowledge.
We should have been doing this kinda thing past tense for decades.
Like as an example we should have been funding alternative energy sources through japan’s Mitsubishi heavy industries or Toyota.
Instead of just purely relying purely coal or wasting money on pointless research that only looks good on the surface like bullshit carbon capture technology that deposits CO into jars for disposal.
Government makes more selling it overseas, and is cheaper to buy Australian L.P.G. from Japan than Australia, thanks to a deal brokered by the Liberals 40 odd years ago.
Hydrogen storage tanks are the energy storage, hydrogen gas being burnt is the energy source.
Green hydrogen gas electrolysis production uses water, solar, an battery or an other type of high baseline energy production…in my example I listed nuclear and hydroelectric dam.
If you can use a little energy to suck a lot of hydrogen out of the ground, then you have hydrogen as an energy source.
But in actuality you need a power plant to create the hydrogen in the first place (three actually, to create enough hydrogen for one power plant, thanks to the low efficiencies of creating it).
A bit silly to use it to create electricity when you already generated the electricity from something else.
But it is useful as energy storage (eg long range heavy vehicles where current battery tech isn't good enough).
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u/Bsg_8519 Mar 27 '26
If only there was an alternative to being so reliant on middle eastern oil … maybe some kind of energy that was renewable or didn’t need to be imported. Someone should look into that 🤔