Sarinian,

You completely failed to show any plant that can generate peak power at the peak periods. The first molten salt storage is being built as a 5MW test site.

Try again.

Sarnian,
I did refute the 'answers' you gave. They were not in fact answers to my assertion that coal and oil has no equally efficient and cheap competitors though you did claim 'Salt storage solar power' as being cheaper than oil/coal etc but this was refuted by another poster.

Apart from that, your responses were about your theory that 'vested interests' were preventing the development of alternative energies. Then you referred to every paranoid lefty's bogeyman, John Howard who hasn't been in office for 4 yrs. Are we to blame Obama and Gillard now?

You still have provided no evidence that there are alternative energy sources which are equally efficient and cheap as oil and coal.

pete/plantagenet.. oh, wait! "The IAEA radiation monitoring team took measurements at seven different locations in Tokyo and in the Kanagawa and Chiba Prefectures. Dose rates were well below those which are dangerous to human health.... "

and to put the contamination of food in some perspective "In the case of the milk samples, even if consumed for one year, the radiation dose would be equivalent to that a person would receive in a single CT scan"

So try to read all the hyperventilating hysterical MSM with a pinch of salt, after all the average journalist in Australia is a drama driven type of person. Evidently that sells.

Go to the IAEA site and other expert sites, stay away from those with a clear vested interest in doom (greenpeace, WWF etc) all these people use people's pain and suffering to get yet more money into their coffers, all in the name of protecting you of course.

Especially stay away from the gleeful sites and "opinion" generators, who are ecstatic about this nuclear issue, to the point of ignoring the actual tsunami disaster.

Renewables are not expensive.

My family farm has bores serviced by windmills, solar, and electric pumps.

No prizes for guessing which of these is cheapest over a fifty year period for total cost, including installation, maintenance and replacement.

Even if I factor in considerations like assuming the windmill cost 150 times its installation cost, at 15% interest, it was a clear winner, followed by the solar DC pump, followed by mains power driven pumps.

Renewables are not bogus.

Concentrated energy sources that are easily damaged by disaster or malice, these are the threat to our stability, and to local autonomy in the face of government breakdown.

The cost of big coal and big nuclear is too great, in event of a demonstrated worst far less than that possible.

Rusty