The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.

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    5 months ago

    Can you point to any nuclear plant in a Western country that was built in five years in the past thirty years or so?

    what about the rogue boyscout one

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      5 months ago

      Use this one weird trick to get free energy from your old smoke detectors!