Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to go 100% renewables

Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by bjz_ on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:16AM (#19451907)

Yeah - renewables are quicker to bring online, and allow for faster iteration and innovation. If Australia currently had nuclear power plants I definitely wouldn't be in favour of shutting them down, but it seems a better bet to invest in the renewable energy.

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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by solarkraft on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:29AM (#19452034)

I's better long-term. Storage of nuclear waste is a close-to-unmanageable risk.

Countries that haven't started are lucky because every part of a nuclear power plant is incredibly difficult to get rid of.

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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by perilunar on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:46AM (#19452231)

> Storage of nuclear waste is a close-to-unmanageable risk

Not in Australia it isn't. We have very large areas of geologically stable, sparsely populated land. Some of it is even already contaminated by nuclear tests in the 50s.

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