{"id":351821,"date":"2024-11-21T07:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351821"},"modified":"2024-11-21T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T06:37:23","slug":"big-news-the-climate-blob-finally-goes-nuclear-to-save-the-world-us-and-uk-offer-nuclear-secrets-and-australia-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=351821","title":{"rendered":"BIG News \u2014 The Climate Blob finally goes Nuclear \u201cto save the world\u201d: US and UK offer nuclear secrets (and Australia says NO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Everything just changed. For the first time in Climate Bureaucracy, Nuclear power can<\/em> save the world too.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Until today, only renewables had the Holy Sacred Power against Climate Change. But last night the UK and US signed a new agreement at COP29 to share \u201cbillions of pounds worth of nuclear research\u201d in order to \u201cdecarbonize\u201d the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They did this backflip in such a tearing rush, they didn\u2019t even have time to phone the Prime Ministers they were offering this bonanza to. They accidentally listed all the countries they expected to sign up, only to find the Australian government is going to an election waving the anti-nuclear flag, while the opposition demons carry the pro-nuclear pennant. Oopsie indeed. The press release was reissued, but the Labor government in Australia are now trying to explain why nuclear power is great  in submarines, but too expensive and slow for sites that don\u2019t move and aren\u2019t underwater. It\u2019s entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, Australia has too much sunshine, and thus we\u2019re stuck with solar power. We also have the largest uranium reserves in the world, but shh. This is like energy lessons on Sesame Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear will play a vital role in our clean energy future<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That is why we are working closely with our allies to unleash the potential of cutting-edge nuclear technology. Advanced nuclear technology will help decarbonise industry by providing low-carbon heat and power, supporting new jobs and investment here in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear power is Kryptonite to Renewables<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t miss how big this is. Only a year ago France scandalized the world when they dropped their renewables target and fought the EU to get nuclear power accepted as a \u201clow emissions\u201d generator. They had to threaten to scupper the EU\u2019s new Renewable Energy Directive unless the EU included a role for nuclear power<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renewables groupies hate nuclear power, because it\u2019s everything they want to be but aren\u2019t. Nukes are low emissions, reliable, proven, easy to add to a grid, and they don\u2019t need a caravan of batteries, flywheels, hydro-dams or a 1,000 miles of high voltage lines. Obviously, if nuclear power can save the world from the Carbon Yeti, no one needs to build floating bird killers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The implication is that renewables are being quietly thrown under a bus. The Blob is backing away slowly from 30 years of  \u201cfree energy\u201d propaganda. They have blinked, and switched to nuclear, the same obvious solution they could have picked from the start in Rio in 1992. Be prepared as they gaslight the world, hoping they will forget the trillions of dollars poured into the renewable energy port-a-loo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump factor is already killing sacred cows<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Blob is clearly tripping at full speed here \u2014 reacting to the shift in power with Trump\u2019s win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Miliband may be trying to try to save COP29 from terminal irrelevancy. But the Blob surely knows that the grifter game is up for renewables \u2014 now that investors are abandoning them<\/a>, industries are headed to China, and electricity prices have taken off like one of Elon\u2019s rockets. That and Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle<\/a> ignored their wind and solar pony showcases and rushed to get nuclear power to feed their pet AIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all we know, the new nuclear plan might have been written the day they released it. How much effort would it have taken for Ed Miliband to mention it to Australia\u2019s Energy Minister (Chris-\u201cBlackout\u201d-Bowen). He didn\u2019t even need to phone him. They\u2019re  both at Baku.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving away Nuclear technology<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The UK Government and the US will be giving away nuclear technology<\/a>, to speed up deployment of civil nuclear power to \u201cdecarbonize industry\u201d. The new agreement would start on March 1 2025, and is (was) expected to be signed by Canada, France, Japan, Republic of Korea, Republic of South Africa, China, Euratom [Europe], Switzerland and Australia<\/em>. Thus it perfectly wedged the Australian government \u2014 which agreed to AUKUS, a nuclear sub sharing program, but is also 100% committed to a Glorious Renewable Future. The US and UK obviously assumed their AUKUS partner would leap at the chance. Instead the updated press release<\/a> dropped the list of nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UK press release:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband and US Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk have today (Monday 18 November) signed a new agreement while in Baku for climate talks that will help pool together billions of pounds worth of nuclear research and development \u2013 including the world\u2019s leading academic institutions and nuclear innovators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New technologies such as advanced modular reactors can help decarbonise heavy industry such as aviation fuel, hydrogen or advanced steel production, by providing low-carbon heat and power. They are also smaller and can be made in factories, making them quicker and cheaper to build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will support the commitment made last year at COP28 to triple nuclear energy capacity globally by 2050, with 31 countries signed up including the US and UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK is reversing a legacy of no nuclear being delivered and moving forward with its advanced nuclear reactor programme and Great British Nuclear\u2019s small modular reactor competition, as well as continuing development of the Sizewell C project. New nuclear will help to secure thousands of good, skilled jobs and support energy independence beyond 2030.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Australian Energy Minister, clearly caught unprepared, said \u201cNo\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Albanese government gives firm \u2018no\u2019 to joining UK-US agreement to advance nuclear technology<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who is at the COP meeting, said: \u201cAustralia is not signing this agreement as we do not have a nuclear energy industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe recognise that some countries may choose to use nuclear energy, depending on national circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur international partners understand that Australia\u2019s abundance of renewable energy resources makes nuclear power, including nuclear power through small modular reactors, an unviable option for inclusion in our energy mix for decarbonisation efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2026and, we have too much sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Bowen\u2019s UK-US nuclear energy pact COP out leaves AUKUS partners surprised<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Dennis Shanahan, The Australian<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Mr Dutton asked Mr Marles in parliament whether Australia would sign up to the nuclear agreement with Australia\u2019s allies, the Acting Prime Minister said: \u201cI can confirm that the Australian government will not be signing that agreement. For Australia, pursuing a path of nuclear energy would represent pursuing the single most expensive electricity option on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Bowen also argued that Australia\u2019s longer hours of sunshine compared with the UK meant that Australia had solar-power advantages and nuclear energy was not viable for Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPut simply, London has only 1633 hours of sunshine in an average year. By comparison, Australia\u2019s least sunny capital city is Melbourne with 2362, while our sunniest capital city is Perth has 3229,\u201d Mr Bowen\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For baffled foreigners, the next election in Australia has to be held by May 2025, and looks like it will hinge on nuclear power, which is currently banned in Australia, (largely by accident \u2014 because of an incidental Green ten-minute amendment in 1998). Our slow moving Labor diehards were already glued to the renewables-train but the opposition is making nuclear energy a key part of their platform. Polling suggests Australians are not anti-nuclear, but they are anti-electricity-bill-bonfires. So voters seem to find the idea of change appealing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Miliband, of course, is still raving in a hollow rehearsed way about the unreliable transition, but it is a simple fact that the more nuclear power a grid has, the less wind and solar it wants.  In the new world order of Trump \u2014 The Australian Labor Party may be the last man standing on unreliable renewables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until today, only renewables had the Holy Sacred Power against Climate Change. 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