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Engineering with Rosie is a great channel with insights into the energy system in Australia - she worked in Denmark too and has lots of interesting things to sa
by t43562 2y ago
Engineering with Rosie is a great channel with insights into the energy system in Australia - she worked in Denmark too and has lots of interesting things to say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_47LWFAG6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_47LWFAG6g
Roughly - why would you spend a dollar on a long term return risky nuclear venture when you could spend it on something certain and get a result tomorrow? Doubly so in a hot sunny country like Australia.
- vertis 2y agoPeter Dutton is not about to support wind and solar though. Yuck.
- stephen_g 2y agoI very much hope it won’t matter and he proves unelectable. Look at his record - doctors voted him the “worst Minister for Health in Australian History” when he was in that position. Later in Home Affairs as minister there was massive grift (massive, corrupt looking contracts to dodgy companies to run detention camps) and internal staff surveys in the public service consistently rated his department as the worst managed across the whole Government… He does not has any record of good policy or any kind of effective executive management.
- ninininino 2y agoProbably because you consider redundancy and emergency preparation important, sunlight is not guaranteed in event of supervolcanic eruption, asteroid impact, nuclear winter, and other similar events.
- ethbr1 2y ago> not guaranteed in event of supervolcanic eruption, asteroid impact, nuclear winter, and other similar events Are these the standards we're building to, now?