Yes, let's try to make power users more flexible - aluminium extraction electrolytic cells with better "idle" states - but limiting the power use in hospitals and other places is a bit silly - you can only go so far. 7/13
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Cranking out distributed solar & wind with a matching 24 hour grid is a gargantuan task, like a space or atomic bomb program. Mines soak up all the tradies in local towns - think about this on a capital city wide scale. Ramping up will be challenging, in terms of the diversions in the economy. 8/13
Nuclear compares well, in terms what you need to put in for the result. We could try to import foreign workers - really we should subtract the cost of training from our foreign aid budget, but in any case, rather than exporting carbon, we'd then be exporting economic chaos. 9/13
Sure, in the context of ebb & flow of the market, let people move around the globe - but we're not talking about that here. And we're heading for a copper shortage. Lots of things are about to get harder. 10/13
For sure, nuclear would not make a change to prices anytime soon, and talk of "baseload" misses the point. We'd do nuclear because it is a good thing to do, not for other reasons. Those reasons are not Dutton's reasons. He's selling snake oil, not a plan. 11/13
Yes, it would need good planning. The best time to have gotten started was 20 years ago. The next best time is now - to at least lift the ban on nuclear power, and set up structures so that if nuclear is good, at least there are no obstacles to it reaching its potential. 12/13
Yes, I could be wrong, but I have to start somewhere. It's what I believe, even if you don't. Take it or leave it. Maybe I could provide more detail, but not if you're just trying to undermine me, after bashing away at something, ignoring that and just going onto another criticism. 13/13
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