My letter praised the United Australia Party for being unafraid to use the word ” nuclear” in the lead up to the election. It was refreshing to read of a group thinking and planning for a positive boost to Australia’s economy whilst keeping the ethical standards expected in this era of high angst for the future of our planet.

Grant, Additionally Germany is building the Nordstream 2.0 gas pipeline – 1200 km and over 1200mm diameter to bring Putin’s gas into Germany and increase fossil fuel consumption.
Now this gas production and supply involves leaks of unburned gas such as methane, a greenhouse gas as much as 75 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. If total leaks of natural gas exceed as little as 3.5pc of overall gas volume, gas is no better than coal from a climate change perspective. Yet Russian gas from the notoriously leaky Gazprom production system has “fugitive emissions” rates of at least 5-7 per cent. The Obama administration estimated that US shale gas, in contrast, involves leaks of only about 1.5 per cent.
https://www.ft.com/content/3edd0b08-9bf5-11e8-9702-5946bae86e6d

Germany will continue to import French nuclear electricity however their electricity exports are now increasing due to random overproduction due to the variability of wind and solar.

Georgi
Thanks for your comment.
Its great that you as a nuclear physicist have made these comments and we need a lot more to do the same.
It seems that the Greens in particular and the public more generally don’t understand the great new future that massive energy density can bring.
I landed here in Nice yesterday and see the massive contrasts with the electrified public transport systems and low power prices due to cheap nuclear energy.
We have a LONG way to go in Australia

John, Thanks for your support for nuclear energy.
While out population is small, we have amongst the highest per capita emissions in the World. All middle ranking nations can play their part because it puts backbone into all International efforts.
Our nation needs to use its talents by decarbonising all sectors of our economy like steel making and transport.
If we don’t start getting smart we will end up being dictated to by the technology rich countries in our region and our economic future will be very grim.

A joke, carbon reduction for Australia when we have 25 Million people, with China and India some 2.5 BILLION — Our contribution is nothing on the World stage. Wake up Australia !Go Nuclear.

John Horton
HARDEN NSW

The key words in this global mess are:
“…. renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could.”

Green insanity has driven this to the point where nations are and will be faced with bankruptcy.

The purpose of solar wind is NOT to be connected to a distribution network due to the transient, unpredictable and variable nature of nature itself.

The practical purpose for ‘renewables’ is to relieve the load on the grid system by developing means to collect and store energy in places remote from the grid – NOT to replace or bolster baseload and topping generation that drives the grid.

Transient politicians in concert with the UN that seeks it’s first permanent income stream – peddle the Green agenda because the novelty made them look good …… after all, they were doing the honourable thing by being seen to be saving the planet. Nobody could question and the cause became a religion.

Engineers and those rational people who prefer dealing with fact and reality were and are dismissed and derided by the righteous.

And here we are – In a Federal duopoly we MUST vote for those idiots instead of rounding them up to be thrown into Jail for what they have done, let alone what they WILL do.

The religion is one of madness – especially so when considering that modern Nuclear can power the entire world for more then 500 years by feeding off existing decommissioned nuclear warheads – something that really would make us all safer and increase the living standards of practically everybody on the planet.

Instead, the Green zealots infect mature and immature minds to the point where ignorant, well-meaning children are brought to tears of desperation. Indoctrinated by Green lies in a so-called “Education” system, and spread by leftist, sensationalist media, all of which has us on the path to destruction.

Is wrist slashing the only next step, or should we all wait and enjoy the circus whilst selling popcorn from the sidelines as we watch the nation die?

I honestly can’t see another solution as the idiots have a firm grasp on our destiny.
PC

My crude, back of the envelope sums for developing enough lithium based batteries to convert the current world’s vehicle fleet to electric, suggested that at the present global rate of production of lithium we should have mined a sufficient quantity (for today’s vehicles) in about 1800 years. Maybe we have other plans.

I note that Germany is yet to shut down its last nuclear power station, Neckarwestheim 2. I understand that they will still continue to import significant quantities of relatively cheap, and approximately two thirds nuclear generated, power from France. Am I missing something or is that a bit like having your (yellow?) cake and eating it, too.