Opinion AUSTRALIAN Politics: Adelaide Board Discussion Part 5

[Vader]

The same blokes that talk up battery technology improving knock nuclear technology advancements .....yeah OK.

I'm not knocking it - as I said before, it has massive potential to provide clean green energy for the world, once the technology matures.

However, the reality right now is that this is still very much in the research phase. We're still decades away from the first commercial reactors coming online. The French are currently building the ITER reactor, which is hoped will be the first to generate more power output than input - but the reactor won't come online until 2039 at the earliest, and is for research purposes only.

I'm all for nuclear fusion, but it's something that our grandchildren will be benefiting from. You and I will be long gone, dead, buried and forgotten, before the first commercial nuclear fusion reactor comes online.

What was reported in that article, which you clearly didn't bother reading, is that the Chinese managed to achieve a stable plasma field in their Tokamak reactor for just over 1000 seconds (beating the old record of ~400 seconds). They did not achieve ignition, and generated no energy. What they achieved is one small step in a very long process towards achieving nuclear fusion. As the article points out, commercial grade reactors are still decades away - but you neither know this (having not read the article), nor do you care (as your only motivation is shit stirring).

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

The same blokes that talk up battery technology improving knock nuclear technology advancements .....yeah OK.

The key issue is batteries are improving... just see where they have come in the last decade... so expect huge advancements in the next decade to help us in the now.

Issue with the nuclear fission is it's still in experimental stages & not going to be a practical solution anytime soon. Once it is & we have needs, it would be a consideration.... but it doesn't help us for the foreseeable future.

 

[Vader]

If you want to know more about the current state of research in nuclear fusion, I recommend having a look at the ITER website: https://www.iter.org/

ITER, which won't come online until 2039 at the earliest, is hoped to be the first reactor to achieve a Q >= 1 (producing more fusion power than the total heating power required to start the reaction). It is hoped that ITER will be able to produce "long pulses" of up to 500MW of power.

After ITER, the next generation of machines are referred to as DEMO. There are plans to build several of these around the world, notably in Europe, Japan, India and South Korea. The timeframe on these is around 2050. These will be simpler than ITER, with fewer research diagnostic functions. They would provide a test bed for large scale power generation and tritium production. It is hoped that these reactors will achieve a Q in the 30-50 range (ITER is hoping for a Q of 10).

Commercial fusion reactors would follow on from the DEMO reactors. No prospective dates for these generators are mentioned on the ITER website, but given the ~10 year gap between ITER & DEMO, my guess would be that they're aiming for commercial reactors to come online from ~2060. Note that's only my guess.

 

[Mutineer]

The key issue is batteries are improving... just see where they have come in the last decade... so expect huge advancements in the next decade to help us in the now.

Issue with the nuclear fission is it's still in experimental stages & not going to be a practical solution anytime soon. Once it is & we have needs, it would be a consideration.... but it doesn't help us for the foreseeable future.

Wishful thinking that battery will ever be able to be the sole source of the critical reliable baseload required on the Australian power grid. Life span of battery almost certainly never to get close to that of a nuclear power plant.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Dutton needs to double down on Australia Day and be very visible about it.

Total slam dunk electorally.

People are sick of this shit. Prove me wrong.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Dutton needs to double down on Australia Day and be very visible about it.

Total slam dunk electorally.

People are sick of this shit. Prove me wrong.

100%

because even if the day is changed to satisfy a minority, you'll end up getting rid of it completely

the left is never satisfied
the extreme left hates humanity

 

[kirky]

Dutton run and hide?

That has to top every clueless post you've ever made.

So when was the last time he fronted up to the National Press Club?

 

[kirky]

Wishful thinking that battery will ever be able to be the sole source of the critical reliable baseload required on the Australian power grid. Life span of battery almost certainly never to get close to that of a nuclear power plant.

You been in that time machine of yours again?

And when do nuclear plants need a refurbishment? After about 30 years, was this factored in the Coalition costings given they only went to 2050, so 25 years. So smoke and mirrors. How surprising.

By the way, have you ever been to the USA?

 

[kirky]

Dutton needs to double down on Australia Day and be very visible about it.

Total slam dunk electorally.

People are sick of this shit. Prove me wrong.

Most don’t give a shit - it is a public holiday, that is all the majority care about.

Lets be honest, we only started celebrating the day in 1994. Prior to 1994, it was celebrated on the closest Monday to Jan 26th. This ain’t like the 4th July in the USA. What a tradition.

So yeh, whoo hoo!

 

[Mutineer]

So when was the last time he fronted up to the National Press Club?

LOL I see you read the ALPBC religiously, you're not the only one. No doubt he'll front up when he's good and ready and Laura's baiting in her ALPBC article on the 18th Jan 2025 would be water off Dutton's back. You'd hope in her position she wouldn't let her blind hatred be so obvious but hey that's Laura Tingle.



Other than you is there a well documented bigger hater of Peter Dutton in the Australian media than Laura Tingle? Have you looked at the makeup of the NPC board lately? Who happens to be the current President? Old meanie Laura doesn't have a problem being partisan much!

Our People - National Press Club of Australia

President Laura Tingle and her board of directors are impassioned personal champions of media freedom and believe in the Club’s integral role in defending

npc.org.au

 

[kirky]

LOL I see you read the ALPBC religiously, you're not the only one. No doubt he'll front up when he's good and ready and Laura's baiting in her ALPBC article on the 18th Jan 2025 would be water off Dutton's back. You'd hope in her position she wouldn't let her blind hatred be so obvious but hey that's Laura Tingle.



Other than you is there a well documented bigger hater of Peter Dutton in the Australian media than Laura Tingle? Have you looked at the makeup of the NPC board lately? Who happens to be the current President? Old meanie Laura doesn't have a problem being partisan much!

Our People - National Press Club of Australia

President Laura Tingle and her board of directors are impassioned personal champions of media freedom and believe in the Club’s integral role in defending

npc.org.au

When Mr Potato Head is good and ready? Ok, so when we are in election campaign mode.

On the NPC board - Jane Norman, a leftist? or Tom Connell, a leftist?

Mr Potato Head never has a problem going onto right wing media tho.

You really are a miserable old fart.

 

[Mutineer]

When Mr Potato Head is good and ready? Ok, so when we are in election campaign mode.

On the NPC board - Jane Norman, a leftist? or Tom Connell, a leftist?

Mr Potato Head never has a problem going onto right wing media tho.

You really are a miserable old fart.

Takes one to know one gramps...

 

[kirky]

Takes one to know one gramps...

Is the Australian Financial Review a leftist paper?

Two of the board members write on it.

We all know, you want the world to be full of right wing thinking people. Problem is if that was ever the case, we wouldn’t develop as a society.

 

[Mutineer]

Is the Australian Financial Review a leftist paper?

Two of the board members write on it.

We all know, you want the world to be full of right wing thinking people. Problem is if that was ever the case, we wouldn’t develop as a society.

LOL
The board is skewed to the left you can argue all you like, the same as more journalists lean left.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Most don’t give a shit -

You don’t give a shit because you hate this country.

 

[kirky]

You don’t give a shit because you hate this country.

Hate this country, where do you come up with this shit.

I’d rather we actually celebrate Australia Day on January 1st each year.

 

[Slippery Pete]

I’d rather we actually celebrate Australia Day on January 1st each year.

What’s wrong with the existing date?

 

[kirky]

What’s wrong with the existing date?

Well given until the 1994, we as a country didn’t bother to celebrate January 26th, why bother now.

Do you know what January 1st represents other than New Years Day?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Do you know what January 1st represents other than New Years Day?

I would prefer to become a Republic & celebrate on this new day.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Do you know what January 1st represents other than New Years Day?

Yes, federation… but what is wrong with the existing date?

Do you not like what this country is?

 

[Slippery Pete]

I would prefer to become a Republic & celebrate on this new day.

Ahhh…… now you’re off on a tangent.

 

[kirky]

Yes, federation… but what is wrong with the existing date?

Do you not like what this country is?

See my amended post above.

January 1st represents as a country as a whole and not separate colonies. So that was the date we became a country and not when a fleet from England with mainly convicts arrived in what was then New South Wales.

Does May 13, 1607 represent anything special for the USA? No.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Ahhh…… now you’re off on a tangent.

I have posted this many times.

Time we became a truly independent country.

 

[adelaidecrows]

Not the Donald...

But how much longer do Governments want to have all these transactions occurring without financial controls.

thats my point. i think it was largely accepted because of how little you could use it. People owned it and got rich but at some point you had to cash it in. Now with the ability to purchase more every day items, governments will no doubt want to start tracking this like they do regular income. I wonder the reason why they havent put tighter controls on it is because there are so many, and if you target them only more will pop up. I dont think there will be much of a future in crypto now because of this. Plus banks will feel like they are losing out. As I said, with the links to organised crime its only a matter of time.

 

[adelaidecrows]

Well given until the 1994, we as a country didn’t bother to celebrate January 26th, why bother now.

Do you know what January 1st represents other than New Years Day?

I for one am all for changing the date. Even let the Indigenous elders come up with one. I dont care. But have you stopped to think for a minute as to why they havent. My old boss once said to me, dont come to me with problems, come to me with solutions. Right now we have only seen protests and no solutions. They haven't proposed a date because they dont want to celebrate it. There is no end game other than to end Australia Day all together.