Writer
Chris Mills
Chris Mills, AM, is a MSc in Systems Management and is a systems designer and builder.
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CHRIS MILLS. Is affordable, reliable and low-emissions Nuclear-generated electricity the path to Climate Management?
How on Earth will we power the Planet when the Sun is not bright enough, the wind is not strong enough, droughts have dried up pumped-hydro and burning fossil fuels will incinerate us? Continue reading »
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Chris Mills: When the Wind Blows, Water Flows
This is the paradox: as towns run out of potable water, our livestock and crops die, and water to fight infernos dries up, how can a Nation ‘girt by sea’ use unlimited volumes of sea water to slake a parched land? Wind and solar generated electricity costs have continued to decline, facilitating economic desalination of Continue reading »
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Avoiding the Crossfire from the USA – China Confrontation
Australia is on a ‘hiding to nothing’ from the escalating USA confrontation with China. If we choose USA, China can peacefully inflict devastating economic damage by choosing other countries to supply its resources. If we choose China, USA can withdraw its security guarantees, (albeit never tested in a situation where Australia, but not the USA, Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Truthslaying The Environment.
In the Australia in Wonderland in which we are now living, things are getting curiouser and curiouser. Like the time-travel budget surplus arriving in 2019 from the 2020 budget, the Prime Minister has declared that Australia will meet its Paris Climate Change promise ‘in a canter’. (Or is that ‘at a canter’?) Curiously, the Department of Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Australians’ Electricity Transition Plan: Coal to Renewables.
Climate scientist across the world have proven beyond reasonable doubt that anthropometric heating of the planet is a grave and imminent danger to humanity, often described as an existential threat. In Australia, our politicians have dithered for decades while the world burns. The claim is that Global Warming is a ‘wicked’ unsolvable problem, but is Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Powering electric vehicles with ‘‘Swap-n-go” power packs
In Australia, a minuscule 0.3% of vehicles have electric propulsion, notwithstanding that those acknowledging the reality of anthropometric Global Warming recognise that transportation is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Possible reasons for resistance to electric vehicle purchase include high price, ‘range anxiety’ and long charging times. Those with an eye to the future might Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Australian Defence Organisation Combats Climate Change Effects in Australia.
The Mission of the Australian Defence Force is to defend Australia and its national interests. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2018 Report assesses that climate change presents a global ‘risk to heath, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security and economic growth’. Australia, being the driest inhabited continent faces existential risk from climate change Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Australians’ Choice: A Wasted Hourglass or Golden Egg Economy?
These simplifying images of Australia’s future Federal, State and Territory economies have been deliberately chosen to be evocative and provocative. Our stark choice is to continue to pursue the Neoliberalism ideology that is failing so many ordinary Australians, of take a giant leap back to a future of social equity and a fairer go for Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Mobile Workers Stampede from the City to the Bush.
Remember when Australia was a nation of makers? As in: the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Holdens and the Opera House? Imagine the productivity increase if Australia had a mobile army who would deploy across the country to provide skilled workers where, when and for as long is required. Fruit pickers, mobile phone Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. The next BIG thing: renewable water.
When cattle and sheep are dying in vast number across Eastern Australia, how sane is it for the driest inhabited continent in the world not to capture and redirect wastewater and stormwater from our cities and towns into food and beverage production? Energy is a major component of the cost of treating and moving water. Continue reading »
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CHRIS MILLS. Electrifying News: Power From The People.
Now that the Coalition (should that be COALition?) Government has announced that it will abrogate is duty to formulate and implement a national energy management policy, it is up to the Australian people to do so. We can express our choices through our State and Territory Governments via the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), which Continue reading »
