On the website you will find the product of engineering excellence. We are the Raffaele Brothers and we are men who design high speed machines, engines and power-trains. We are unknown in our homeland, for we work and live mostly overseas, but our hearts are tied forever to Australia and the plight of its environment.

The water crisis gripping our continent has been of particular interest to us because all of us have roots and family who work the land. Two years ago, as the eastern drought set in with a vengeance, we asked ourselves what should be engineering’s solution to this terrible turn of events. We dug deeply into the various proposals put forward into the so-called Australian Water Debate and found all wanting, all short sighted, all based on privatization’s inherent need for scarcity to drive a pricing model which could be spun off into a managed satellite structure.

Our world is a world where you strive to solve a problem once. Failure is no option. We saw that what was being proposed was a series of patch up jobs designed to be insufficient for the express purpose of triggering a cascading set of penalties as each subsequent mend would be brought into the loop.

So what we did was resolve to unearth the best ways forward our nation could take - leaving aside the pernicious concerns of private equity and the grubbiness of interstate politics - and nationbuilder.com.au holds the best of what we found.

In this site you will find a rationale for coastal river diversions into the interior regions which undoes every argument that can be railed against it and, you will also find an invention protected internationally by patent filings which we have called The Zero Height Roof - ZHR.

A ZHR beats hands down the Victorian governments’ desalination plant on every metric. A 10,000 hectare ZHR located in the eastern range where average annual rainfall exceeds 2200mm would deliver fresh water to Melbourne at less than two thirds the cost proposed by the desalination consortium. A total of 10,000 hectares of ZHR would cost $3.2bn and produce 220GL on average per year, and what is more, with the right material selected it would endure for several centuries. The only carbon dioxide attached to it, imbedded in its manufacture. No need for a new coal fired power station to feed it. The ZHR would provide jobs for construction workers, aplenty. If the cost of the new power station ($2bn) were added into the equation and instead spent on an extension of the ZHR system, the State would have close to 400GL of clean fresh water at its disposal, not the paltry 150 offered by the proposed desalination plant.

You might question ZHR’s performance in drought, as it is the red herring jumping through every argument made by desalinations proponents, but, consider first the rainfall records and realize there is no drought on the register, in those environs, where annual precipitation has dropped more than 50%.

ZHR is an engineering gift created to serve all humanity. There is going to be an extra 2 billion human beings living on this planet within the next few decades, and even if only 20% of their water needs were to be met with ZHR, there can be no doubt about the value this might create for Australia. We believe there is a global market for the construction of 30,000 square kilometers (200x150) of ZHR in the next few decades. This would equate to in excess of a trillion dollars - dollars feeding through the Australian taxation system. The ZHR is arguably the greatest civil engineering invention of the past hundred years. It’s an Australian idea and it deserves the full weight and support of the Federal Parliament, the press and Australian industry.

Australia is a land of some 7.6 million square kilometers and with just 1500 of those used in the right locations, ZHR could supply all the water drained by agriculture from the Murray Darling river system. Look to Mount Seaview, Mount Warning and the hinterlands of Tully and Cairns where one may find - 3000mm - 8000mm average rainfall per year.

We could wax on and on about the merits of ZHR but let us let fly a few admonishments for those who would trot out the usual infantile solutions aimed at achieving a similar outcome: You might say lets us concrete the land over or cover it with plastic or bitumen - but ask yourself what will you do when the ground shrinks beneath your cover - will your structure ride the contractions and swellings of the land? Will your cover degrade into fibers to clog the gills of fish and aquatic larvae, will it dose all below it in estrogens and compounds yet to be named? Do you consider every house in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane the equivalent of ZHR - what about the contaminations which cannot be assayed and what of the expense of piping these multitudes of disparate roofs together, would not the expense send the State into bankruptcy?

The ZHR is a rational structure, created for this present times needs, and erectable by the unit. It is a work of art, and that art is an art founded in the logic of mass manufacturing metrics with its understanding of time versus human motion.

If you take the time to read through what we have presented on this website you will find all that this country needs to solve its water crisis and with the same blow raise all forms of green electro-energy productions into True Base Load Certainty.

There is no need for more coal fired power stations. What Australia lacks is hydroelectric recharge pumping. This technology is the battery service needed to store the electricity on the scale required to provide green energy producers with the means to compete with and beat the coal fired power generation industry. With sufficient of it Australia could turn off all its polluting generators and easily reduce its green house emissions by the 70% we need to meet our international obligations.

What we say in this website does not fit well with the power industry and nor does it suit the aims of our governments who now have fallen - hook, line and sinker for the ethereal promises of those who wish at all costs to maintain the status quo. They claim they can capture carbon dioxide exhausted from the coal burning process, they claim they can then compress it and transport it to distant sites, and, they claim it can then be stored safely underground. With what energy we ask is this to be performed? Will they have to double the coal burnt to make up for what they consume burying its products or is it more likely yet that to perform this trick of alchemy three times as much must pass into the mouth of the furnace?