Essay by Eric Worrall
“Firmed renewables are faster to construct and cheaper to function. Those that say in any other case are both dangerously ignorant or just searching for to perpetuate the local weather wars.”
Local weather change minister says nuclear is just too sluggish and costly
By Anna Macdonald Tuesday June 21, 2022
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On the Investor Group on Local weather Change Funding and Finance Summit, Bowen additionally known as nuclear power the slowest and most costly type of various power.
“Its adoption in Australia would push up energy costs and crowd out cheaper and cleaner applied sciences,” Bowen stated.
“Firmed renewables are faster to construct and cheaper to function. Those that say in any other case are both dangerously ignorant or just searching for to perpetuate the local weather wars.”
Bowen’s feedback come after Nationals chief David Littleproud stated he wrote to prime minister Anthony Albanese about contemplating nuclear energy in Australia.
“Can we make it protected, inexpensive and dependable in Australia? We have to have this dialog and if alternatives exist – again ourselves,” Littleproud tweeted earlier this month.
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“We’ve a world-class Built-in System Plan for the transformation of the electrical energy grid,” he stated.
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Learn extra: https://www.themandarin.com.au/192758-bowen-climate-change-minister-nuclear-slow-expensive/
Nuclear energy has the benefit that it really works. Not like renewables, which have a 100% failure fee in the case of changing fossil gas.
There aren’t any comparable renewable success tales, regardless of trillions of taxpayer {dollars} expended over the previous couple of many years, by politicians who desperately needed to please voters by making renewable power work.
Even inexperienced Germany goes again to coal.
You would possibly assume many years of incontrovertible proof that renewables are usually not a viable alternative for dispatchable energy ought to have an effect on political considering. However Aussie Power Minister Bowen thinks all it is advisable retailer electrical energy is a bit cash. “the rain doesn’t at all times fall both, however we handle to retailer the water – we are able to retailer the renewable power if we’ve the funding” (h/t Jo Nova).
I feel we could be assured Power Minister Bowen merely isn’t listening to recommendation which contradicts his firmly held however technically naive opinions. The actual fact the power storage answer required to affordably treatment intermittency doesn’t exist, and can probably by no means exist, means nothing to him. Bowen himself informed us what he thinks of those that contradict his concepts:- “… Those that say in any other case are both dangerously ignorant or just searching for to perpetuate the local weather wars.”.
Bowen will uncover the onerous method, like all his predecessors, that the actual impediment to his dream of a inexperienced power future was by no means political, the issue is technological. However it’s unusual Australians who pays the worth for Bowen’s incapacity to pay attention, and the folly of his doomed taxpayer subsidised try to do the not possible.
Replace (EW): h/t Surrr – No phrase but on what France thinks of being known as “dangerously ignorant”. President Macron made a speech advocating France’s nuclear answer to local weather change in February. You’ll have thought Australian politicians would have eased off insulting France, after the cancelled submarine contract diplomatic disaster.
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