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The construction of a wind turbine blade is extremely complex, and no doubt very costly. They don't lend themselves to re-usability very readily. Fibreglass is their major constituent. It seem to be the height of stupidity to just bury them.

Stopping immigration completely will not make the housing problem go away. Stopping huge investments in our housing by overseas investors such as the Chinese will go some way to help the housing problem. There are serious numbers of houses owned by Chinese investors that are purposely kept empty, because of the Chinese attitude towards property investing. This has to stop. Plus, all investors must be made to produce proof of the origins of their money in line with AUSTRAC reporting. As it is, real estate agents, solicitors and others in the real estate industry are not obliged to report people purchasing properties with suitcases full of cash money. It is legend here on the West Coast that Chinese buyers turn up to real estate agencies with suitcases full of cash, to prove they have the money and don't need to finance the property. This is a glaring hole in our control of legal money origins.

The oxygen locked into hematite is just as useful as the iron, because it is needed to facilitate the steel-making process. Oxygen is critical to many chemical processes which produce the products we need in our industrialised world. I agree, there's a large cost component in shipping iron ore many thousands of kilometres to furnaces in far-off countries. But those countries are prepared to pay that cost, and they often own the ore bulk carriers, as well as the iron and steel-making facilities. The simple fact remains that iron and steel-making is a business that just cannot be started from scratch without a monstrous financial investment, running into possibly multiple tens of billions of dollars, the need to find stable markets for that iron and steel, that are consistent purchasers of the product - and the end product goes into a world full of iron and steel products that are often sold cheaply. There are many "anti-dumping" legal actions against iron and steel manufacturers around the world, as the Chinese in particular, often dump iron and steel products at low prices during sales slumps, to keep their furnaces operational. They often over-produce iron and steel products. If we go into iron and steel making on a large scale, we are competing with huge global iron and steel producers in a vicious market. BHP and Rio Tinto are possibly the only corporations who could garner the huge investment backing required to indulge in large-scale iron and steel production. All businesses need to borrow money to finance big projects and you need to be able to convince lenders you can repay the borrowed money. Financiers would be reluctant to lend money to huge iron and steel manufacturing projects, as they are seen as low return. However, there is great interest in finding cheaper ways of making iron and steel, and especially "green" steel, where pollution levels from the manufacturing process are low. Iron and steel manufacturing is one of the worlds most polluting industrial production processes. To that end, there are three companies in W.A. currently either manufacturing or investing in "green" steel production on a modest scale. It appears the S.A. Govt is also intent on supporting "green" steel manufacturing in that State. https://international.austrade.gov.au/en/news-and-analysis/news/australia-forges-a-future-made-from-green-steel

So, how come Labor is totally corrupt, and the Liberals and Nationals and One Nation are pure and honest? Sounds like you're just carrying out repeating all the slanted, Labor-hating, Sky News reporting. And if you're going to accuse people in power of corruption, you'd better be able to back it up with proof, or you could become involved in defamation lawsuits.

Clearing for suburban developments and clearing for minesites and minesite access roads and facilities also takes up a substantial majority of the level of native vegetation clearing going on. Farmland in W.A. has been subject to highly restrictive clearing bans since 1985. In the 1960's, the catchwords of W.A.'s conservative politicians were, "we're aiming at clearing a million acres a year!". We've gone from one extreme to the other as regards farm clearing, but there's only minimal restrictions on clearing for roads and subdivisions.

Agree, we need to be harsher on these Middle Eastern criminals, and impose longer sentences on them, when they display criminality.

That's a typical, wide-ranging statement that has no facts to back it up. "Plenty" is a generic number that implies a substantial quantity. I don't believe that it's true that "plenty" of immigrants "hate Australia", that is typical Pauline Hanson sh*t-stirring talk. What we need to actually do, is identify those immigrants who are failing to become useful Australian citizens, and who are here only to devise criminal means of acquiring wealth, and to arrange deportation of same.

I'm not glad at all that an attempted U.S. Presidential assassination took place, and I don't hate that much, that I want leaders assassinated. But this is the U.S., where nutcases, conspiracy theorists, and promoters of hatred abound, and where guns are freely available and also available in huge quantities (1.3B firearms for a population of 380M). So that firearms-loving cult is only going to keep producing attempted assassinations. Despite the U.S.'s problems, they're still our primary ally, and still the worlds biggest superpower. China doesn't rate as an important ally, they wouldn't come to our assistance if attacked, whereas America normally would. Under Trump, there's a much lessened chance that America would come to help us repel an enemy who invaded. We don't have anything that Trump really wants, that is the major problem.

No - if it was programmed by a teenage boy, and sighted a blonde girl in a miniskirt in close proximity, it would've developed a huge bulge in its groin area, then started talking gibberish, and then indulged in unexplainable acts of gross stupidity and bravado, mostly involving showing off.

The use of purposely twisted derogatory names for leaders is the same abusive, denigratory technique used by Trump, and every other person who suffers from narcissism, low emotional intelligence, and bullying behaviors - which are often driven by a need to assert superiority. You do nothing for the strength of your arguments by indulging in such childish moves.

Because no-one can produce an economically sound, profitable business case, for doing so, and thereby gain the necessary funding to carry the process out. In addition, Australia has a low level of available suitable labour for major projects such as you propose - and especially, cheap labour.

I was indeed - as were you and around 63,000 other young men. But the major difference between a "lone wolf" radical, mentally disturbed assassin, is that those young Australian men were screened for mental instability and other psychological problems, and those found unsuitable were rejected from induction into the military. Those men inducted, were trained to good levels of competency, and given instructions in what to do, as regards identifying enemy combatants - and they were also given "rules of engagement", which follow the Geneva Conventions. This is a world apart from the American scene, where any number of high powered firearms are freely available to any U.S. citizen, regardless of their soundness of mind, their ethics and morals, and their beliefs. In addition, there is no requirement for any firearms training whatsoever for U.S. civilians, and adherents of the U.S. firearm worship cult, also train up their young children in the use of firearms - which to me, is the sign of a morally and ethically bankrupt civilisation.

WIllie - If they made it into a fold-up job, it would be ideal for throwing into an aircraft, for a bit of speedy transport at your destination! But you're right, it needs a seat. I've noticed a lot of the footpath scooter riders slowing down, there must be some education or law enforcement or confiscation of scooters going on. Here on the Left Coast, it seems the police are giving short shrift to juveniles riding illegal souped-up scooters on the road - they just confiscate them, and crush them. There was a gang of juveniles on these things, terrorising both pedestrians and motorists, in the Northern suburbs a few weeks ago. Seems like the police sorted them out, caught the ringleaders and crushed the scooters.

Ho-hum, just another casual shooting incident, and another day in America. But I wonder what would have eventuated if a large number of deaths had occurred? Lots more guns being handed out, no doubt, just to make sure EVERYONE was armed to the teeth!

If you really had this "balance" sorted out in your mind, you wouldn't be carrying a lifelong, enduring and bitter grudge, against those who demanded that you be conscripted into the military.