I find it hard to fault the arguments in Greg Jericho's recent piece about why nuclear power is not the saviour for Australia.
I do tend to wish, however, that governments everywhere were trying to come up with very specific and concrete proposals as to how they are going to swap to all renewable energy in a relatively short space of time. Making targets alone is not really enough.
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Yeah it takes a long time until it is operation and it would have costs of around $120/Mhw which means you would have to have a price on carbon of $50-60 to be competitive with coal . It would never match renewables however.
It is too expensive, fusion power is a pipe dream, renewables aren't enough. We're stuck.
I don't know, John. Some big scale money into best utility scale storage is what's needed, I suspect. Along with (perhaps) cutting the costs of long distance electricity transmission.
I was interested in this recent video about a huge solar/wind plant in Morocco that is to pipe electricity into England, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJunxkln578
Steve I hope storage becomes viable because we are already out of time on this issue.
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