The climate change debate continues.

[pmccarthy]

Snowy hydro now $42 billion! Nothing mor needs saying.

[old man emu]

14 hours ago, facthunter said:

Not all ores are oxides. Nev

 

I was thinking about Nev's comment and I began to list all the different things that contain oxygen. Things like water and DNA and carbohydrates and proteins and so on. The amount of oxygen in free air is easily calculated, but what about all the other places oxygen hides? Food for thought, if you want a feed.

[facthunter]

There are Mixtures and compounds. When it's a Compound you can't just squeeze it and get water out. nev

[old man emu]

10 minutes ago, facthunter said:

When it's a Compound you can't just squeeze it and get water out.

I agee. The point I am trying to make is that there is much more oxygen present on Earth than the 21% in free air. 

[facthunter]

But it's not available to DO as Oxygen does, so it's purely academic.. nev

[Siso]

Why don't we heat them to high temperatures here!

[facthunter]

That wouldn't do much for your efforts. Nev

[onetrack]

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Why don't we heat them to high temperatures here!

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.