Australia's electricity transition is great yet terrible. Over 20% of its electricity in 2021 ALREADY came from solar and wind... but with no nuclear, little hydro, not much fossil gas, it started 2000 with 80% coal, so by 2021, it STILL got 51% of its electricity from coal..
@CoalFreeDave Let’s say you started building a nuclear power plant right now. NO ONE ON THE PLANET knows how much a nuclear power plant costs or how long they take to build, but by the time it is built, this👇 will be available Solar 2.0… -Cheaper -Faster -Easier solarbuildermag.com/news/the-perov…
@New_NRG_Herald @CoalFreeDave Yes. The loss of optionality with nuclear is terrible and totally overlooked: You are married for 40 years(++waste!?)with big centralized plants, loose all the flexibility to react and benefit from technical innovation (esp in storage systems/renewables).
@New_NRG_Herald @CoalFreeDave Tbc there are efforts in nuclear innovation too,but - less potential vs other newer energy sources (->cost curve) - big part of nuclear problems are structural: waste,catastrophe risk, terror risk, global security risk(plutonium). Unfortunately these can't be innovated away.