The comfortable life we in the West now enjoy, compared to generations before us, is based on:
Affordable energy has been essential to our high standard of living but is based on digging ready-made fuels from the ground – coal and oil.
These are incredibly energy-dense fuels, but the carbon dioxide released when we burn these amazing free fuels, is contributing to the warming of our planet and could drastically change our ecosystem.
Humanity currently does not have the technology to completely eliminate CO2 emissions, but we must do what we can in the industries where this is most readily possible. Two of these are transport and electricity production.
In the Pilbara, we are huge users of diesel – some 3 billion litres per year – and while our economic contribution to the nation is enormous – our CO2 emissions are correspondingly large. So, we need to look at developing emission-free fuels for both transport and electricity production.
There are many possibilities for electrifying the resource industry. In the next decade we need to research and develop cheap, clean and sustainable sources of energy to power the mighty Pilbara industry upon which so much of Australia’s material well-being depends on.
These possibilities include, hydrogen energy, tidal power, wave energy, solar power, nuclear fission, different battery technologies, carbon sequestration, nuclear fusion, geothermal energy and the utilisation of gravity.
Future Solutions is invested in all these areas. We were promoting hydrogen energy a decade ago, long before others realised its potential.
We were promoting solar power over two decades ago, when the solar panels on your roof were nearly as expensive as the house underneath them.
We were investigating sequestration of carbon dioxide in 2007 and see this as one of the great innovations that can remove vast quantities of CO2 quickly, cheaply and securely.
We have been considering alternative house construction techniques for the Pilbara since 2002.
We have been closely involved with self-determination and employment for Aboriginal people since 2014.
We have been investigating environmentally friendly dwelling designs for three decades.
We have been involved with the oil and gas and mining industries in the Pilbara since 1985 and realise more than most how fundamental they are to the well-being of this nation.
We know we can solve these problems by working together, using intelligent ideas, high quality designs, careful management of the process and appropriate funding.
Help us to do that.
Future Solutions is invested in all these areas. We were promoting hydrogen energy a decade ago, long before others realised its potential.
We were promoting solar power over two decades ago, when the solar panels on your roof were nearly as expensive as the house underneath them.
We were investigating sequestration of carbon dioxide in 2007 and see this as one of the great innovations that can remove vast quantities of CO2 quickly, cheaply and securely.
We have been considering alternative house construction techniques for the Pilbara since 2002.
We have been closely involved with self-determination and employment for Aboriginal people since 2014.
We have been investigating environmentally friendly dwelling designs for three decades.
We have been involved with the oil and gas and mining industries in the Pilbara since 1985 and realise more than most how fundamental they are to the well-being of this nation.
We know we can solve these problems by working together, using intelligent ideas, high quality designs, careful management of the process and appropriate funding.
Help us to do that.
