{"id":172905,"date":"2021-11-15T08:41:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=172905"},"modified":"2021-11-15T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:41:35","slug":"post-renewables-reality-nuclear-power-generation-easy-solution-for-energy-starved-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=172905","title":{"rendered":"Post-Renewables Reality: Nuclear Power Generation Easy Solution For Energy Starved World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Europe\u2019s great wind drought<\/a> has focused attention on the unassailable fact that wind power is an utterly meaningless power source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand for electricity is, always and everywhere, a \u2018here and now\u2019 kind of thing. Households and businesses couldn\u2019t care less if there\u2019s a roaring gale and plenty of wind power at 2 in the morning. But the absence of electricity at the point when power consumers (of all shapes and sizes) need it, is always noticed rather keenly \u2013 the experience of freezing or boiling in the dark during mass blackouts tends to collect in the subconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The response to Europe\u2019s wind power debacle has been a series of backflips that would do a Russian gymnast proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite lots of bluff and bluster from Boris Johnson about his country\u2019s all wind \u2018powered\u2019 future, Johnson is now openly committed to building nuclear power plants, including a fleet of new small modular reactors; all with an unparalleled urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the thrall of creeping Green-Marxism, the French have been throwing millions of euros in subsidies at wind and solar and, simultaneously, attempting to wind back its enviable nuclear power generation capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, all of a sudden, the French are back in the nuclear power generation game, with a vengeance (laid out in the article appearing later in this post). Much to the horror of the Climate Industrial Complex, which has been backing hopelessly unreliable wind and solar, from which it profits so handsomely, for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never underestimate the French government to do what is in the best interest of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the same can\u2019t be said of Australia in what passes for political leadership. The only country in the G20 to not take the benefit of nuclear power \u2013 its Federal Parliament slapped a legislative ban on nuclear power plants back in 1998. Australia has never operated a nuclear power generation plant, despite its abundant uranium reserves and despite the fact that it is the world\u2019s third largest exporter of uranium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the lead up to the next Federal election (due in April 2022) Australia\u2019s Liberal PM, Scott Morrison has openly decried any future for nuclear power generation, notwithstanding his claim that Australia will be able to meet a net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions target by 2050. How Morrison intends to do so is all smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signing up to a net-zero target and not backing nuclear power generation amounts to national economic suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberals, being mis-led by Morrison, were once conservatives in the vein of America\u2019s Republicans, these days they\u2019ve taken on the appearance of the hard-green-left, pandering to renewable energy rent seekers and crony capitalist keen to profiteer from scams like \u2018green\u2019 hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas capture and storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Downer, a Liberal from South Australia \u2013 who was the Foreign Minister from 1996 to 2007 \u2013 is one of those old school Liberals who simply cannot understand why Australia maintains its ban on nuclear power generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here he is being interviewed on Sky News by Chris Kenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear is the \u2018world\u2019s easiest solution\u2019 to carbon-free baseload power problem<\/strong>
Sky News
Chris Kenny and Alexander Downer
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Former Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer says nuclear energy is the \u201cworld\u2019s easiest solution\u201d to the problem posed by trying to reduce carbon emissions while continuing to generate baseload power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is increasingly a view that wind power and solar power is going to be too slow to be implemented and is too unreliable to be baseload power,\u201d he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd bearing in mind around 80 per cent of all of the world\u2019s energy is generated from fossil fuels; we can already see the effect of cutting back on fossil fuel production and that is very steep increases in gas prices, oil prices, petrol prices and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd probably the only medium-term effective way of dealing with baseload power, if you\u2019re not going to use fossil fuels, is nuclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo you can see by the way big increases in uranium prices at the moment as more and more leaders are starting to come to terms with that being a very real prospect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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