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> If more nuclear gets us away from Fossil Fuels faster it's a good thing His point is that in Australia, it won’t. And it doesn’t matter how much evidence you

> If more nuclear gets us away from Fossil Fuels faster it's a good thing His point is that in Australia, it won’t. And it doesn’t matter how much evidence you put in front of these people to show them that. You can’t even tell them it’s costly because they reject even that provable fact. Renewables plus firming is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than any form of nuclear ever will be in AU and getting cheaper every day to boot. To which the response will simply be “nuuhh uhhh”. https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Energy-data-modelling/GenCost https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Ene...

toomuchtodo 3y ago
At least in the case of Australia, they’ll arrive at 100% renewables between 2030-2035 based on current deployment trajectories without any nuclear. All of Australia has 18.4GW of coal generation capacity remaining (per ElectricityMaps.com). To replace this with solar, wind, and batteries will be trivial (China deployed 217GW of solar last year [2023], for comparison). There is already 40GW of batteries in their pipeline. https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2023/12/coal-will-be-all-but-gone-by-2034-under-australias-latest-energy https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2023/12/coal-will-be-a... https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/major-publications/integrated-system-plan-isp https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/major-publications/integr... https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/australia-leads-global-market-for-battery-energy-storage-systems/ https://www.woodmac.com/press-releases/australia-leads-globa...