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"DBDriver" <DBDriver@iig2.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Stan Pierce" <tpierce@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> > I think the point has come for a seige attitude towards water and
energy.
> > Not just research in Uni departments.  Treat the problem as as a war
> > effort... in other words DO IT NOW.
> > Get big industry  to see that *they* will benefit by the expansion of
> > projects.  Just make it all Home Grown...all Australian effort.
> >  Even let big business draw up projects that will financially benefit
them
> > and give guarantees of price and finishing time.  Then give them tax
> breaks
> > of several years to get started.  This would give a psychological boost
in
> > society like Hitler created.  The whole world would be watching and that
> > alone would give the edge to succeed.
> > It all has to start in the mind.
> > Energy and water are the NEXT BIG THING.   Australians  could make the
> world
> > sit up and gawp if they set their minds to it.
> >
>
> Aus politics is too fickle for large investments like this from private
> industry. Have a look at the trouble in the Timor Gap where the on-going
> indecision on borders led to Shell (BP?) applying an ultimatum to the 2
> governments to get a formal resolution of the boundary or they'll just
walk
> away. How many companies would invest in big long term Water/Energy
projects
> in Aus where the next government might not be as amiable to the original
> proposition. The short answer is none.
>
> Also, the supply of more water and energy is very easy to accommodate. You
> build more dams (or piping) and more power stations. Private Industry
would
> take this option at any point as it is proven technology with known or
> projectable returns. This is sound and fundamental business sense. Given
the
> political climate what is required is smarter and more innovative water
> collection/usage and power generation/usage.
>
> The US lead in microelectronics over the USSR came about because one tried
> to minimise the resources consumed in placing things into orbit and the
> other just added more fuel/rockets to their process. We need a similar
> creative approach to Water/Energy futures and a government sponsored
> approach may be better here in Aus; there just aren't any mega rich Paul
> Allen type Aussies to speculate on the research.
>
> RJ.

Point taken about using known technology.    But tax incentives to use the
green-path technology might swing things.