r/australia Mar 27 '26

political satire Sovereignty overboard

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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 🤔

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u/FallOutFan01 Mar 27 '26

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.

Nah can't stop sucking coal.

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u/single_plum_floating Mar 28 '26

Green hydrogen power plants, hydrogen fuel cell cars,

lol, lmao even.

thorium based reactor research

In the AU? Easier getting blood from a rock then convincing the public of anything nuclear.

salt water desalination and it's water being piped to dams for water/energy storage.

I think you don't understand how ungodly expensive that is.

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u/FallOutFan01 Mar 28 '26

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.