‘Nuclear power is the answer’ to affordably cut down emissions

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says countries around the world have realised that “nuclear power is the answer” to affordable energy to cut down emissions.

“Wind and solar don’t really cut it,” Mr Bolt said.

[PG-igwv]

I’m sorry you’re wrong, getting rid of this government is the answer to affordable power

[peterburke]

A coal powered energy grid if its life is stretched for decades into the future will win hands down if you take into account emissions produced creating green energy.

[AximandTheCursed]

Nuclear is the best option long-term, coal and gas until it becomes a fully mature industry, the emissions really don't matter.

[nikopawlowic]

Funny how here in the United States we WERE going down that route up until the Three Mile Island incident. Yes Nuclear power plants are complicated to run, but if done properly, well it certainly does work better than any "green" alternatives.

[christophergame]

"For many countries around the world, " it may perhaps be that "nuclear power is the answer". For Australia, for the present and immediate future, the rational answer is probably coal; perhaps nuclear may be better for the further future.

[VKAB-]

Correct, that answer has been correct for a very long time. Moreover, Australia through BHP is a major exporter of uranium from its Olympic Dam mine in South Australia - another reason why BHP should be paying much larger royalties. BHP support the Voice so royalty increase is a must for their uranium, coal and iron ore production. These royalties will go to the governments and thereby the people of QLD, WA and SA.

[ivansultanoff]

Firstly Gov doesn’t know what expensive is -given how they treat taxpayers money

[gibbonsdp]

Generation capacity added globally in 2022: nuclear 1.5GW, renewables 295GW. Wind and solar must be cutting it somewhere.

[ashleynz]

The full costs of wind and solar power should be transparently displayed by their proponents, not kept hidden away by the Green Left and woke progressives (or assumed to be picked up by the taxpayers of Australia).


For wind & solar there's the 5 additional costs of:

1. New transmission lines, to connect the wind farms and solar farms that are sometimes located far from the existing national grid.


2. Expensive big lithium storage batteries, to generate voltage support / reactive power / grid stability (previously provided "free" by gas and coal fired power stations, but not generated by wind and solar farms).


3. Back-up gas fired power stations running on super expensive hydrogen gas, for when it is cloudy, windless, or stormy.


4. Expensive big lithium storage batteries require cobalt mined and processed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by child labour, forced labour, slave labour, child forced labour, child slave labour. Not so cuddly and friendly here.


5. Rare earth neo-magnets in wind turbines require neodymium mined and processed by Communist Chinese slave labour and by oppressing the local ethnic Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur populations in the People's Republic. Also not so cuddly and friendly here.


Now it may be that when you take the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. into account, that wind and solar end up being slightly cheaper than a natural gas fired power station (incl. cost of relatively expensive natural gas and carbon costs), coal-fired power station (incl. cost of the relatively expensive thermal coal and carbon costs) and even nuclear (incl. the full cost of regulatory monitoring and nuclear waste disposal).


But it may end up being more expensive.


All we want is full transparent total cost, not green left propaganda.

[carbonite]

we would all say yes to this, cheap power , but the way the land is being handed back to anyone who identifies as, they would refuse any hole in the ground to bury the waste!

[julietgover]

The problem what to do with the waste product!!

[paulchilds]

Australias single nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights is tiny. Nowhere near the size of a nuclear po wer station. And Lucas Heights is unpopular as housing gets closer and closer to it.
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[peterbarnhoorn]

Ask Albo or Bowen how
Nuclear energy works or doesn't work, they wouldn't have a clue 😂..

[rattusfinkus]

Nuclear is not economically feasible.
Gencost shows even with transmission and storage renewables are the cheapest, there is no better analysis of the Australian grid.
The world nuclear association admits the renewables make nuclear and coal less profitable by substantially decreasing their capacity factors and thereby increasing LCOEs for baseload generators.
Renewables will be a fraction of the price by the time any nuclear can be built, solar cells reduce in cost by 10% per year and wind and storage costs are also falling. So nuclear built now is competing with tomorrows cheaper renewables.
Border adjustment tariffs are coming and if we stick with fossil fuels while nuclear is being built over the next 20 years our exports will be taxed.

[TheTaipan]

LEAD don't wait to be led. If you want government you have to convince the voting public you have a plan.

[elimason]

Too bad Bolt didn't tell the Coalition that ten years ago.

[pookeyhutchison]

Just build some HELE plants and stop the rubbish windmills and solar chinese crap.

[Wesmancan]

What’s wrong with free energy. It does exist. Wake up fools.

[olivernorth-coombes]

The minute this nuclear option is selected, how many years until the first power is generated. What are the short term under 6 months measures that can be chosen. I have commented on Sky videos about an easy solution that repays the capital cost in 1 year. I have written to Chris Bowen too. No one wants to know. It takes 5 minutes to explain. It involves a tiny bit of legal home wiring at the switchboard, a digital clock, connection to a different energy retailer and a controlled load device such as electric hot water storage.

[aussiebornandbred]

I'm neither for or against nuclear power, but what I want to know, is what happens to the nuclear waste?.??