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Comment on “Lies and fantasies:” Bowen puts $387 billion price tag on Dutton’s nuclear plans

Getawombatupya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Honestly wouldn’t mind a few gigawatt of these as baseload insurance and the rest renewable for the few days a year the renewable grid might struggle to net zero. So much better from a pollution and radiation exposure standpoint than coal or on-demand gas turbines

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vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The problem is more of timescale. If they were ready now and reasonably affordable, then great, use them. But by the time these will be available in reality we should have already hit 100% renewable (which is doable entirely with batteries + wind/solar).

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- Getawombatupya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  youtu.be/OBxuNu6u3g4
  
  Also, a presentation I saw by Saul Griffith for Australia, gives an idea where the focus needs to be
  
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DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, it’s a false dichotomy. We can do both.

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