{"id":285749,"date":"2023-10-30T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285749"},"modified":"2023-10-30T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T10:30:59","slug":"wind-solar-chaos-driving-demand-for-safe-reliable-affordable-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=285749","title":{"rendered":"Wind & Solar Chaos Driving Demand For Safe, Reliable & Affordable Nuclear\u00a0Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Former Ansto CEO Dr Adi Paterson says the world is starting to see a big shift in nuclear energy, which will reduce the price of electricity in a reliable and safe manner. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing a big nuclear world and then the microreactors and the small reactors are starting to come online in various places,\u201d Dr Paterson told Sky News host Chris Kenny.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nuclear power\u2019s renaissance is the inevitable response to the wind and solar transition\u2019s inevitable failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunshine and weather-dependent solar and weather-dependent wind are no match for serious generation sources, like safe, reliable and affordable nuclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Incapable of delivering electricity on demand, wind and solar have never been true competitors with coal, gas or nuclear power generators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, over the last twenty years or so, they have been like a parasitic cancer, eroding and destroying the power grids that host them. When you hear wind and solar advocates talking about maintaining the existing generators until they can find some magic bullet storage system or make hydrogen gas (presumably economically), it\u2019s like a tumour realising that if the host dies, it dies too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind and solar will continue to bleed the system dry until power consumers recognise that the whole system is terminal. Coupling routine power rationing and mass blackouts with rocketing power prices, should do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numerous countries in Europe have worked out that their power systems need urgent resuscitation, and are delivering with the construction of new generation nuclear plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Finns are in<\/a>, the French led the way (and they\u2019re demanding more<\/a>) and the Italians have also eagerly signed up<\/a> to Europe\u2019s nuclear power renaissance. The Swedes, not to be outdone, have ditched their impossible-to-meet 100% renewable energy target (simply because it was premised on adding ever-increasing intermittent wind and solar capacity) \u2013 and is on track to build 10 large-scale nuclear plants<\/a>, with palns to lift their ban on uranium mining giving it access its own fuel supply, independent of Russia. All sensible stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But not a bit of it in Australia. Not yet, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky News\u2019 Chris Kenny talks to Adi Paterson about how the chaotic (occasional) delivery of wind and solar power is driving an inevitable demand for nuclear power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Reliable and safe\u2019: World seeing global shift to nuclear energy<\/strong>
Sky News Australia
Chris Kenny and Adi Paterson
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Former ANSTO CEO Dr Adi Paterson says the world is starting to see a big shift in nuclear energy, which will reduce the price of electricity in a reliable and safe manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a big nuclear world and then the microreactors and the small reactors are starting to come online in various places,\u201d Dr Paterson told Sky News host Chris Kenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Paterson said it\u2019s essential Australia transitions to nuclear energy as the quality of Australia\u2019s electricity goes down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouth Australia is losing jobs because renewables don\u2019t just provide a challenge to the standard coal base power but if you have too much of it, what they call instantaneous penetration of 100 per cent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou actually reduce the quality of the frequency control that means 800 jobs have already left South Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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