Energy alternatives to fossil fuels.....

 If you're anything like me you would never even have heard of  Sain-Paul-lez-Durance in Provence, France, where a community of thirty five countries have combined their scientific knowledge in an experiment to master nuclear fusion and are building a reactor known as ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. The World has been trying to master nuclear fusion since the 1930's.

Something that occurs naturally in the sun but is difficult to replicate on Earth. They, the scientists, say fusion promises to supply a limitless form of energy that would do away with fossil fuels that are proven to be causing so much damage to our climate around the world and with no radioactive waste unlike nuclear power used today.

This could be the saving of us all from the dreaded climate change which is happening rapidly today. And as 80% of all energy we consume is derived from fossil fuels something indeed has to change.

It is said one gram of fuel created by this method is the equivalent of eight tons of oil in fusion power.

I had never heard anything about this but have always been of the opinion that science will come to our aid with knowledge and save us. If and hopefully when it can I sincerely hope the world will have no more use for fossil fuels like gas, coal, and oil.

So it is said as many as thirty nine building sites and fifteen thousand employees from countries all across the world, from over four thousand companies, work on the project.

                                                        

I know I diversify slightly, as I often do in my thoughts, but it also makes me think back to the days of  Nikola Tesla who is said to have invented "free energy" from the universe back in the 1890's  and it is also said was quickly and quietly shut down. No money back then in supplying free energy I guess? Maybe he trod on too many toes of the energy giants of the day.

Nikola Tesla, a very underrated and very clever man. He invented the first machine to effectively use alternating current, the system of electricity still in use today, wireless telegraphy, fluorescent lights, remote control and much more. It was wireless technology I understand he believed could eventually lead to free energy.  When he died in 1943 he was broke and bankrupt which I always found sad. He took many secrets and future inventions with him I'm certain. It's worth reading up on him.

                                                          

We in Australia are, at the moment, working on the worlds biggest clean energy project to power at least some of Singapore's energy from Australia.

A US$22 Billion project will send our sunshine 3,100 miles to Singapore via high voltage undersea cables. This will be completed by 2027. It will be the largest solar farm and battery storage facility in history.

Singapore wishes to transition to renewable energy but lacks the space to do so and we have the sunshine in abundance and the space to harness it from the sun.

12,000 hectares of desert 500 miles south of Darwin is where this is all being built and is almost ten times the size of the world's current largest solar power installation.

Also South Australia here is leading the country in energy transition having transformed its energy system from 1% to over 60% renewable energy in just over 15 years with aspirations to achieve 100% renewables by 2030.

We here could hopefully become a huge energy exporter from sunshine to power not only our homes here but overseas homes as well. 

We should always live in hope...just like the very clever and great inventor Nikola Tesla did throughout  his life and his many inventions. Many of which are in use today...