Howard outlines energy superpower vision.

The Prime Minister has outlined his vision for energy and water, saying the nation has the makings of an energy superpower.
Mr Howard, in an address to the Committee for Economic Development in Sydney, has again put forward a case for nuclear power as a way of controlling greenhouse gases.
He also says Australia needs to aspire to be a world leader in clean coal technology.
Mr Howard has defended not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
He says Australia would have missed out on a $25 billion gas deal with China if it had signed up to the protocol because it would not have been able to meet the target it sets out.
"A Kyoto constraint could well have priced Australia out of a contract whose net effect is to lower China's prospective greenhouse emissions by some 7 million tonnes," he said.
"Australia would have lost out and at best the environment would have been no better off.
"Where is the rationality in that?"
Water
On the issue of water, the Prime Minister says people in cities should not tolerate water restrictions.
He says there are no reasons why cities should be gripped by water problems.
"Our goal should be nothing less that to drought-proof our large coastal cities," he said.
"Having a city on permanent water restrictions makes about as much sense as having a city on permanent power restrictions.
"We would not tolerate it with electricity and we should not tolerate with water."
Mr Howard is calling on the states to apply for more ambitious projects under the Federal Government's water fund, saying only $400 million of the $2 billion pool has been used.
Mr Howard says he will be writing to the states and territories setting out what he believes to be minimum criteria for projects.
'No plan'
Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says Mr Howard's speech is a diversion from the leadership feud with Peter Costello.
"John Howard has no plan for the future," he said.
"He has attitudes, and his attitude is underpinned by a desire to appear in his current leadership crisis as a man with a serious idea about the direction the country ought to be going.
"But frankly there is nothing there."