Forum Archive Index - June 2003

[Tony de Bruyn <tony@ltdrisk.com>]

Electricity can be transported quite well so the trucks and buses have to be electric, not battery, but on electrified tracks. My point is to conserve the liquid fuel for vehicles that cannot practically use the electrified tracks by using the alternative methods wherever possible.

The next stage is to discover how to manufacture the fuel that nature made for us in the laboratory. This is where a nuclear plant should be used for the energy requirements. These fuel manufacturing plants can be buried somewhere far away from scared citizens.

Unfortunately, energy is still far too cheap for anyone to bother. The market works very well in signalling when these things are required. It creates painful shortages frequeently enough for entrepeneurs to realise that they can make a buck, BUT there must be no meddling with price caps before that. The recent electricity shortage is the market worning us to build more but it must be allowed to reward the investor with realistic returns. The economy will respond when the pain gets too much, probably daily blackouts. My fear is that the public still believe that the govt can do better than the market and provide cheap reliable power but we all know that they would be allocating too many funds too soon. IMHO power has been unrealistically cheap and the economy has not developed where it should have because the funds did not go to the right place. Long live the free market.

 

tony

 

-----Original Message-----
From: sharechat-owner@sharechat.co.nz [mailto:sharechat-owner@sharechat.co.nz]On Behalf Of Duncan MacGregor
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 18:16
To: sharechat
Subject: [sharechat] reply to jim.

Sorry JIM I didnt realise you wanted an answer.  The cheapest form of power is relevent to where you are at at the time.  hydro Is the cheapest If you can get it, nuclear is cheapest in some cases, and definately when other fuels expire.  The problem is fuel for transport, its pointless to say this wont work etc or that is to expensive when we must sort it out before it happens.  the more people that realise the problem the better chance someone will come up with the answer for your grandchildren as well as mine.
                 cheers macdunk

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