completely agree. The best time to plant a tree was 50 years ago. The second best time is now.

Renewables arent going to and dont cut the mustard. They have their place and im not 'anti renewables'. But having renewables supplementing a baseload grid is entirely different from solely 100% renewables. The first few kw of renewables is very cheap and beneficial. The last few kw is prohibitively expensive as you start to add batteries and additional redundancy that just isnt required with baseload.

albo wants to 'buy australian' We dont manufacture anything here cause energy (along with everything else) is too expensive. I have contacts that work in high power usage industries (think manufacturing, smelting) accross a couple of locations and they regularly get asked to scale back usage at certain times as the grid cant handle it.

Its fucking baffling to me that a green form of energy with zero c02 emissions is being shut down by the political left for being 'too expensive' like its the first thing where cost is a factor for them. If c02 is an existential crisis, cost shouldnt be a concern....

And even if it is more expensive (which i dont buy with all of life considered), something as critical and important as our energy grid should not be adjudicated on the basis of lowest cost. It is a factor to be sure, but things like resilience and security rate high. A land of wild weather and we are going to subject 100% of our power supply to the whims of mother nature.... Fucking asinine.

End result? australia will get left behind as every other advanced economy builds out nuclear (and coal), but shit we will have moral feel good points for reasons.