Comment on Federal Coalition commits to dumping 2030 climate target as it pursues nuclear power
Psiczar@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
That’s such a 1950’s mentality, nuclear energy is the future!
It cost $500m to build RAC arena in Perth, construction of a nuclear power station will cost 10’s of billions, and we’d need more than 1. Who is going to run it? We don’t have trained nuclear technicians so we’d have to headhunt them from overseas in the short term until we can train local people.
Given we don’t have a nuclear power history, we’d be better to invest all that money in renewables. We have the land mass for solar farms, we have the coast line for wind and wave energy generation and there is no waste that lasts for 50,000 years that we have to store somewhere.
zik@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
It just seems dumb at this point. Nuclear energy is so incredibly expensive compared to the alternatives. Most countries are moving away from it due to it being commercially unviable. And yet here we are with the NLP acting like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
I know they see it as their duty to push the opposite of whatever Labor’s doing but they don’t seem to care that it’s just a bad idea.
LovesTha@floss.social 3 weeks ago
@zik @Psiczar they apparently think we'll forget how many times they've canned the idea when in power. It is just a convenient lie.
zurohki@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
This. It isn’t supposed to succeed, it’s supposed to drag on for decades eating up all the money that could have built renewables.
LovesTha@floss.social 3 weeks ago
@zurohki *funnel all that money to their friends.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Their duty is to look after their donors