Nuclear Proponents Are “Dangerous Idiots” – Do You Support That?
Essay by Eric Worrall
“Confirmed renewable energy is faster to build and cheaper to operate. Other speakers are either dangerously ignorant or simply looking to prolong the climate wars.”
Climate change minister says nuclear is too slow and expensive
Via Anna Macdonald Tuesday, June 21, 2022
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At the Climate Change Investor Group Finance and Investment Summit, Bowen also called nuclear power the slowest and most expensive form of alternative energy.
“Its adoption in Australia will drive up electricity prices and crowd out cheaper and cleaner technologies,” says Bowen.
“Proven renewable energy builds faster and runs cheaper. Other speakers are either dangerously ignorant or simply looking to prolong the climate wars.”
Bowen’s comments came after National Leader David Littleproud said he had written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about considering nuclear power in Australia.
“Can we make it safe, affordable and reliable in Australia? We need to have this conversation, and if given the chance – let’s get back to ourselves,” Littleproud tweeted earlier this month.
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“We have a world-class Integrated Systems Plan for grid transformation,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.themandarin.com.au/192758-bowen-climate-change-minister-nuclear-slow-expensive/
Nuclear power has the advantage that it works. Unlike renewables, there is a 100% failure rate when replacing fossil fuels.
There is no comparable success story, despite the trillions of taxpayer dollars spent over the past few decades by politicians who are eager to please voters with how to make renewable energy work.
Even green Germany is returning to coal.
You might think that decades of indisputable evidence that renewables are not a viable substitute for replaceable power should have an impact on political thinking. But Australia’s Energy Minister Bowen says all you need to store electricity is a little money. “Rain doesn’t always fall, but we manage to store water – we can store renewable energy if we invest” (h/t Jo Nova).
I think we can trust Secretary of Energy Bowen to simply not listen to advice that contradicts his firm yet technically naive opinions. The fact that the solution to store the energy needed to heal intermittently at a reasonable cost doesn’t exist, and likely never will, makes no sense to him. Bowen himself told us his thoughts on those who were contrary to his ideas: – “…Other speakers are either dangerously ignorant or simply looking to stretch themselves out. climate wars”.
Bowen will discover the hard way, like all of his predecessors, that the real obstacle to his dream of a green energy future has never been politics, but the problem. technology. But it is ordinary Australians who will pay the price for Bowen’s inability to listen, and the folly of his doomed taxpayer’s push to do the impossible.
Update (EW): h/t Surrr – There is no word yet on what the French consider to be “dangerously ignorant”.. President Macron gave a speech in support of France’s nuclear solution to climate change in February. You might think Australian politicians would be less offensive to France, after submarine contract diplomatic crisis canceled.