AEMO boss says nuclear too slow to replace coal, and confirms that “notion of baseload” will not compete with grid powered by cheaper renewables.

The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia’s ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.

  • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 个月前

    I mean, it’s fair to compare the two techs but that’s different from suggesting that you need a single approach to generation. No one is seriously suggesting that only solar for generation is sensible

    • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
      12·
      4 个月前

      I’m not sure if this is your first conversation on the topic but the debate is almost entirely on renewables vs nuclear.

          • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
            5·
            4 个月前

            You are not arguing in good faith if you use exclusively solar in one sentence and then make sweeping generalisations about renewables in another. And yes, consider this a final warning from a mod of this community.

            • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
              1·
              4 个月前

              I mean, you can ban me for a sarcastic post on your dumb one, sure go ahead if that flicks your switch I guess.

              I am arguing in good faith. I live in a country where there isn’t enough good areas for wind and the weakness of the distribution network and other factors like amount of sun prevent quick installations of significant amount of solar. We already have nuclear, the knowhow and place the build more.

              So you and everyone else can try to convince me that I don’t live where I do, I will still live where I live.

              Now ban me and show me what a big man you are.

      • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 个月前

        Did you notice yourself using the word “solar” in this conversation rather than “renewables”?

        • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
          21·
          4 个月前

          Yes. I used renewables. But I used solar before because that was specifically the conversation. What a funny and irrelevant question.

          • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            4 个月前

            FFS if you can’t see that changing the topic of conversation effects the meaning of people’s responses then I don’t know what to tell you. I’m done here