Ministry of Integrated Linear to Circular Bioeconomy Transition

How could it work?

For starters

Mining (linear minerals + circular plants, with biochar)->Materials->manufacturing->technology->industry sectors connected in a circular bioeconomy
BUT will we ever have a 100% circular bioeconomy? Probably NEVER. But, it's goal posts on the horizon.

The problem is, for 'Made in Australia' week, I believe we need to move backwards from the ideal sustainable economy back to the technologies that will fit the ideal and benefit the Country with a possibility in some cases for exports.

I've blogged extensively for years about the ideal technologies we need for 'Sustainable adaptation'. It's a problem for the free market and what incentives and disincentives the Gov can offer.

The days of linear energy are nearing an end but 'critical minerals' are open to debate. Why? Because green chemistry, including Carbon/plant based chemistry, is taking over industrial design thinking in my opinion.

There's also undiscovered technologies with applications that no one has ever imagined. We need a funding infrastructure that isn't controlled by one VC entity. Funding that is applied to all stages of idea to commercialisation. Manufacturing needs new Industry 4.0 thinking but backed up with Australian manufactured tools, machinery, plant industry and relevant minerals, with more apprenticeships keyed into the now and the future.

For eg. Sodium (Na) is kicking the arse of Lithium (Li) in the R&D battery space, though lower energy density than Li, it's catching up and will probably take over. So much investment has gone into Li mining, which also uses a huge amount of water (especially from brine mining such as Salar de Uyuni) but Na is pulling ahead and can be mined from desalination brine produced from Redox Flow Desalination batteries while producing potable water and storing renewable energy at the same time. This is just a drop in the ocean. Years to start up a mine is a financially risky business. Plant industry can be built much faster and is more flexible with more sites for growing than geologically specific mineral deposits. There's mine approval too.

Work out the tech and reverse engineer all the way back to the mine and the field/forest/sunburnt plains/atmosphere and oceans.

What do you think?