Oz election points to consider

Climate, renewables, manufacturing and housing for 'top down global thinking and bottom up integrated action' (nice one, David Holmgren)
- moratorium on new fossil mines and fossil mine expansions (the Greens wouldn't disagree)
- a large fossil export 'C tax' (good one Prof Garnaut and co) that can fund:
- massive spending boost on renewable energy R&D, manufacturing and deployment, linked into the legislated 'Future Made in Australia' policy (great work, ALP) and housing crisis
- industrial hemp industry funding boost for crop research and industry expansion for cultivars possibly with both high yield and high quality seed (health) and Hurd (housing) for
    - hempcrete public housing eg. ecovillages (ecovillage.org), using Oz grown hemp, C neutral/negative lime, hemp waste to biochar (at least 5%) and water plus surplus biochar for regenerative hemp growing (perpetual motion)
    - integrated with Oz manufactured renewable energy tech
- a Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) strategy (eg.Denmark) linked into ANZBIG's 'Australian Biochar Industry 2030 Roadmap' and the Carbon Removal Marketplace (CRM) with the hemp industry possibly as the flagship for (hemp) waste to biochar (mentioned above) plus many more biomass feedstocks, biochar production technologies and biochar applications should be investigated (in addition to biochar's permanent 'C removal'/'Inertinite maceral' for Phil Sutton's 'Climate Emergency' for a 'Safe Climate')
- more apprenticeships to meet the skills shortage in the above industries

Plus
- a social media campaign for positive messaging to spruik all/some/?any of the above policy positions

- social media to actively counteract the LNPs 'baseload' nuclear power deception/fossil fuel expansion agenda (Getup analysis) (as opposed to 'dispatchable' renewables which are already locking in as the future energy supply of the National Electricity Market, and possibly for the rest of the Country too)

- a Youtube politician debate channel that could stream from TV debates or other political debating forums

Down the track

-a smartphone app for greater Civil political engagement with voting on issues and commenting on proceedings during Parliament 'Question Time' and beyond via a cloud front end dashboard on a large monitor plus touch screen kiosk, possibly in the foyer (a little distracting in the main room) - for visitors and the pollies (when not in 'Question Time') to monitor feedback (with some AI moderation). I'm imagining it as a political art installation, with the past (QE2) and the present (realtime comments and voting on issues) looking towards building an awesome future that most of us deserve. Kind of like avaaz.org comment monitors for climate COP meetings on roids. Alternatively, if pollies can still use smartphones in Parliament, they could check out the metrics and comments in realtime during 'Question Time'.

-Maybe a Citizen's Assembly could be a better idea? Works well apparently in the UK...

What can I do? My goal now is to undertake data engineering training on Codecademy as I need to get a job, rather than sucking up to investors for VC, in order to fund the Flame Cap 'Algorithm' Panel Kiln project which I believe has a bright future if it tests and develops well...I ask myself, why not combine virtual engineering, such as a dMRV for a CRM (see the Algorithm page), with physical engineering including both the Algorithm and biochar engineered materials? Eg., I could specialise in data pipelines for IoT and link the Algorithm to a custom CRM...I guess if you had to theorise it, this would make me an 'Eco-Marxist Capitalist Survivalist'. I want people to have the opportunity to build and own their own biochar kiln hardware ('own the means of production'/cherry picked Marxism), produce biochar for themselves (Survival) with C removal for the Planet (Eco) and get paid well to do it (poverty busting Capitalism). This is possible and already starting to happen around the world.

As I've blogged previously, sometimes technology and politics get mixed up together! I think I'll have a lot more fun doing tech without the politics. I'm interested to see where all of this can lead me, and whoever else wants to get involved - please do ('Contact' page).

Cheers! Happy 2025!