Aren't the turbines connected to the fan and hence spinning at the same RPM? If so the fan should have the higher energy.
I'll leave that open for debate.
However, watching the leprechaun on the 7.30 report just got me angry. Any other QF pilot watching would have felt the same emotion as the same man responsible for denying mainline pilots any career progression, the same man who didn't want mainline pilots "polluting" the Jetstar culture, waxed lyrically about how Qantas pilots are the best trained/most experienced in the world and what a wonderful job they did.
For the record; there is no empirical evidence to confirm those claims either way; all that can be said is that this crew and others have handled critical situations safely and professionally, as pilots should.
However:
If you truly believe that Alan, why are you hell-bent on diminishing and destroying mainline and it's culture? Why are you continually auctioning off mainline flying to the lowest bidder? Why do you seek to arrest the career progression of good pilots that your recruiting department spent so much time identifying?
You can't have it both ways Alan.