Re:Solar generates fifth of global electricity on summer sol...
by defrost on Saturday June 22, 2024 @09:54PM
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> I'm not at all across the Nuclear Energy political discourse ... The article you linked is about what I would expect from both sides.
If you only read (or skim) one technical report on Australia's energy needs and potential solutions:
GenCost: cost of building Australia’s future electricity needs
Each year, CSIRO and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) collaborate with industry stakeholders to update GenCost. This leading economic report estimates the cost of building new electricity generation, storage, and hydrogen production in Australia out to 2050. Large-scale nuclear technology costs included for the first time.
Renewables remain the lowest cost new build electricity technology.
Nuclear came out as not available for quite some time (in Australia) and even then still the most expensive overall which caused the report to slammed as a product of anti nuclear lefty scientists by the Liberal | Murdoch crowd. (For a year prior to release it was hailed as the report that would prove doing nothing until off the shelf nuclear was a thing was the one true way).
If you only read (or skim) one technical report on Australia's energy needs and potential solutions:
GenCost: cost of building Australia’s future electricity needs
https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/energy/Gen...It's not policy, it's relatively neutral CSIRO advice.
Six page summary: https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost/GenCost2023-24Fi...
Nuclear came out as not available for quite some time (in Australia) and even then still the most expensive overall which caused the report to slammed as a product of anti nuclear lefty scientists by the Liberal | Murdoch crowd. (For a year prior to release it was hailed as the report that would prove doing nothing until off the shelf nuclear was a thing was the one true way).