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I didn't say do nothing, I said do it in a controlled way. No one in the world has done what Australia is trying to do without large amounts of hydro, geothermal or nuclear. We have H2 plants falling over all over the country and it is costing us. The stupidly that is fueling this whole thing is ridiculous. The UK converted a coal plant to wood pellets(Drax) and ship the wood pellets in from America on bunker oil burning ships. Fossil fuel to cut and process it. I don't know what $/MWh it would be. https://axedrax.uk/about/drax/ France is exporting 11GW of power into countrys around it at the moment down from 15GW earlier in the week. If we were serious we would revisit the nuclear thing sensibly. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR/72h/hourly We don't know what the intermittents plan in Australia is going to cost and even if it will work. A lot of the coal plants are running on minimal maintenance regimes as you would expect from private company's with aging plant that is being demonised

No-one said it was dangerous, there wasn't a whole story to tell.

Carbon is a problem. So is the continual lying to the public. Intermittents cost a lot though as we are finding out. Australia at 30-40% intermittent penetration and people are already having to choose to heat there homes or eat. Australia could go net 0 tomorrow and it will make no difference to the global warming so why not do a transition in a sustainable strucured way where people can afford to heat their homes and industry can adapt instead of going hell for leather.

Wasn't telling a story, just an interesting fact. You are coming across as being a bit precious.

And Albo's not. Unfortunately they all are. $275 off your power bill, no carbon tax under a government I lead, $600B for the LNP nuclear plan. Unfortunately politicians just say what will get them into power. There really needs to be some sort of consequence, but I have no idea how you do it. There is even some data to support coal being cheaper then intermittenets (renewables) although all we have heard is that renewables are the cheapest for of electricity. They probably are in Iceland, Norway and any other country's that have close to 100% traditional hydro. (not Australia)

Yep, but we have to do the best with what we have. How would you get the standards up?

Bananas are radioactive as well. Potassium 40

Although the Murdoch media leaves a bit to be desired, It needs to be listened to so you can try to counter the bias from the ABC and other news sources that also leave a bit to be desired.

Looks like we aren't ready for an honest politicians. apart from the Ukraine war, he has done pretty well everything he has said he was going to do. Remember our "won't be a carbon tax under a government I lead", "electricty bills will be $275 cheaper". Just 2 I can think of off the top of my head, there is others. Not that I am a fan of Trump.

One unfortunate consequence of tightening the gun laws and the bad publicity of the fur trade. Fox skins were worth good money ($35?) in the 80's. Good money. Kept them in check. Plenty of people wanted to shoot them

I dunno if albo and his mob are doing a great job, power bill rising so much they are sending out tax money to help pay them. people having to decide weather to heat there home or eat. House affordably going through the roof. HECS debt payments canned, nothing like dividing communitys, good for my daughter, not so much for my son. As far as trump goes, although I personally think pretty well what everyone else here thinks of him, he is pretty well keeping all the promises that he can control (not so good on the Russia Ukraine thing) he made during the election campaign. That is a bit of fresh air.

I find you need to look at a lot of news sites and sort the wheat from the chaff including Sky and the abc

Uranium is also available in seawater. More of it as rivers erode the earth and dump it in the sea. technology exists to extract it.

Except we need to drive 80km to use public transport in my case. Have been in rural Europe a couple of times in the last few years, pretty well public transport on any sealed road, even in the back blocks. Trains as well between city's for very reasonable prices. A$58 Warsaw to Berlin. Makes the whole comparing the price of petrol between Europe and Australia like comparing apples and oranges. Same with CO2 emissions when it comes to transport.

I was thinking of a small generator powered by a 13 hp honda so probably on 5 KVA. while they seem heave, so are the batterys Ianthe car making the whole car heavy so 100kg would be a smaller % than it would be in an IC car. It would only be for a couple of times a year and I was talking about relatively flat going like heading to Alice Springs from Adelaide.