[size=3][/size][b][/b]Very interesting Klaus. It makes you wonder why using this energy hasn't been explored more closely.



Methinks this government hasn't explored the different types of energy that could be used in place of coal.

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There has been some minor exploration of it by small companies but until big business get their snout into the trough it will not go ahead. Meaning big subsidies for bringing it on needed and no sight of that to date with this government.



Big bickies to bring it on too calls for big investment and GFM has made many nervous.



Seems more interest in pushing for Nuclear when most of the reactors in the world are on their last legs seemingly and it takes huge amounts of bickies to build these monsters and seemingly none going on to renew.



Saw a program saying they may just have to be shut down very soon as close to melt down and the industry is in a pickle. But is this true one wonders? After all so much of what we see and hear seems these days to be not exactly truthful but spin.



Meanwhile in Oz they are now bringing in this option once again and once again public is saying NIMBY.



Ditto. rofl..........

Very interesting Klaus. Lets hope they will investigate it very soon as it sounds like such a great untapped source of energy and those wind turbines are not a pretty site and very noisy.

We left Foster just before they were becoming a reality there. I would not be relaxed living on a farm with them.

Hope you and our mate Rusty are going well matey.

"However, the startup costs are huge and the location remote. Apart from the high in situ costs of setting up Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) - the closest connection point to the national grid is 500km away. But once running thermal energy would not only be the cleanest, but eventually also the cheapest energy source."



My son always says, the cheapest way to do things is do it right the first time!

Maybe it is expensive to set it up but I doubt that it would cost more then the money we spend on all the useless, crazy plans of the Government. ... and anyway - where is our money?!

We are a rich country but we never have money for proper roads, water or hospitals just to name a few.

:P We are no longer a wealthy country. We cannot pay or elderly pensioners a decent amount of money to live on have to divide them into groups so that they don't tear the government to pieces deserved in rage at the rotten treatment.



But of course many are brain washed into the rhetoric that we cant pay more and it is only a safety net. So they say to those who are up in arms - dont be whinging or greedy when the buggers paid themselves a $90 a week rise! Probably feeling a tad guilty that their hero has clay feet.



Sorry Clay not aimed at you mate rofl..........





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Love the saftey net bit!!

If so why are they so dogmatic about what we can do to suplement out income?

The industry is actually supported by Canberra. The following figures come out my NOT very good memory: the Howard government gave the industry almost $ 12 million for initial exploration. The present government has granted $50mil to the hot rocks industry. Big money. Initially, to construct just one well cost $10 mill. Minister Ferguson sounds very impressed by the advances. The furthest advanced company seems to be Geodynamics (I believe Tim Flannery is associated with them).

Klaus

:P We are no longer a wealthy country. We cannot pay or elderly pensioners a decent amount of money to live on have to divide them into groups so that they don't tear the government to pieces deserved in rage at the rotten treatment.



But of course many are brain washed into the rhetoric that we cant pay more and it is only a safety net. So they say to those who are up in arms - dont be whinging or greedy when the buggers paid themselves a $90 a week rise! Probably feeling a tad guilty that their hero has clay feet.



Sorry Clay not aimed at you mate rofl..........

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Oops back on topic (not Phyl. this time) lol you know glass houses and stones lol.



Great post Klaus gets us thinking and hopeful also.

Are you still having nights spent out in the complete quiet and darkness other than the velvet sky and twinkling stars and sounds of the night animals?

You would not be able to sleep if near the turbines. Our farm was not near enough but when we visited friends the noise when near them was deafening.

amazing here we are sitting on computers chatting away and suddenly we believe we are poor.



do all of us really believe in fairies?



we do not have the money to do anything but bitch and complain.



you must realize that there are people on this earth who actually know more than you and me BUT there are people on this earth who know less.



the ones that know more have not developed these thermal energies so far for a reason - maybe like in Portland where the energy is slowing down like it has in Italy and New Zealand.



the heat of the earth is not away over there - it is way down there and when we know how to tap that energy we will pay for it and more billionaires will exist.



we can afford to sit on our bums and just pass criticism cos it does not cost us one red cent.



they have not done this - they have not done that - what have you done ???



sorry to sound like sour grapes but really we cannot even stop graffiti appearing on walls or murder in our streets let alone solve the power problems of earth.





have a nice day



regards peter

Great post Klaus gets us thinking and hopeful also.

Are you still having nights spent out in the complete quiet and darkness other than the velvet sky and twinkling stars and sounds of the night animals?

You would not be able to sleep if near the turbines. Our farm was not near enough but when we visited friends the noise when near them was deafening.

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Hi Phyl, would love to be out there again, nights and days - instead I'm tied down at the computer.Very frustrating.

Cheers - Klaus and Rusty