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Mojo

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Most power would come from Hydrogen generators with the hydrogen being made on-site using water from the deal plant if not nuclear power could be used.
Hydrogen is more easily extracted from ammonia (NH3) rather than from water (H2O). Ammonia is a pretty unpleasant chemical though. It takes huge energy inputs to produce liquid hydrogen. You need to liquify it in order to transport it. Then what? Burn it to produce electricity? We would need to build new hydrogen powered electricity plants. That’s a massive infrastructure investment. It’s also incredibly explosive. You can’t just use liquid hydrogen to turn on a light bulb.

Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) = cheap, transportable energy. We now realise we can’t just keep burning fossil fuels though.

Thorium reactors are much safer than uranium reactors (the technology has progressed enormously over the past 30 to 40 years) - but imagine the outcry if a thorium reactor was proposed for the Gong.

The horns of a dilemma indeed. Even more challenging than getting the Dragons back to a top 8 side!
 

SBD82

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Hydrogen is more easily extracted from ammonia (NH3) rather than from water (H2O). Ammonia is a pretty unpleasant chemical though. It takes huge energy inputs to produce liquid hydrogen. You need to liquify it in order to transport it. Then what? Burn it to produce electricity? We would need to build new hydrogen powered electricity plants. That’s a massive infrastructure investment. It’s also incredibly explosive. You can’t just use liquid hydrogen to turn on a light bulb.

Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) = cheap, transportable energy. We now realise we can’t just keep burning fossil fuels though.

Thorium reactors are much safer than uranium reactors (the technology has progressed enormously over the past 30 to 40 years) - but imagine the outcry if a thorium reactor was proposed for the Gong.

The horns of a dilemma indeed. Even more challenging than getting the Dragons back to a top 8 side!
This is the kind of rational, intelligent and informative comment that has no place in online discourse.

Shame on you mate.
 

_Johnsy

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Has his energy company actually sponsored the dragons?, nothing announced! its probably either fallen through or it is such a piddling amount, tantamount to buying the socks for the year
News is incoming shortly re: sponsorship.

 

TheRev

Coach
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Great news to finally have it official.. hopefully its the start of more than just a transactional sponsors relationship.. I dunno what to expect yet from 2024, but im hoping Twiggy gets really involved.. but the reality is the bloke is trying to casually reinvent and solve the worlds energy future.. so 'possibly' he hasnt got that much time to watch us perform 5 hitups and a bomb week in week out.
 

Dragon David

First Grade
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Great news to finally have it official.. hopefully its the start of more than just a transactional sponsors relationship.. I dunno what to expect yet from 2024, but im hoping Twiggy gets really involved.. but the reality is the bloke is trying to casually reinvent and solve the worlds energy future.. so 'possibly' he hasnt got that much time to watch us perform 5 hitups and a bomb week in week out.
I can understand that Twiggy himself may not be able to attend matches with his busy schedule but hopefully he will have many of his staff attend to gee the players up.
 
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Pretty underwhelming really,
No mate Twiggy is Squadron Energy and his company is fast becoming a megalith in the renewable energy sector. One thing is certain this visionary and fiercely patriotic Australian usually procures whatever he goes after, so if he is tying up with us it can only be a good thing for our club. Perhaps Twiggy is a life long Dragons fan and wants the Red V to be great again.
 

TheRev

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I can understand that Twiggy himself may not be able to attend matches with his busy schedule but hopefully he will have many of his staff attend to gee the players up.
Thats true.. but our real goal for 2025 is having Twiggy (the man himself) all-in like Russell Crowe was for souths.. he will make things happen if hes emotionally invested.. he can sell things.. and he has the money for anything... might have been the difference in ltrying to land AFB for example.. or get Manu to change his tune..
 

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