Same old, Same old.

Yes there was a lot of misplaced nuclear energy enthusiasm in its "day" in the 1970s.

And yes, Whitlam and his oddbod Ministry were notorious visionaries for grandiose technical projects.

BTW, don't get Alan B.

...started on his MSR Thorium (bold technical experiment - answer to our prayers) religion.

P.S.

The author's own Federal Coalition never seriously pursued the nuclear energy option during the 10 years they were in office.

Now as Coalition Opposition Ted and Dutz are floating the nuclear energy balloon in a destructive attempt to drive a wedge between:

the Labor, Teals and Greens Environmental lobby

and

Labor, Industry and Union interests.

More of what we've being doing lately on energy doesn't seem to be working. Not only in electricity prices but meaningful emissions reductions. I recently drove from Adelaide to Roxby Downs, home of the huge uranium deposit at adjoining Olympic Dam. The last 100 km into Pt Augusta were fringed by becalmed wind turbines so no doubt the expensive gas fired generators were working overtime. Where the Pt Augusta baseload coal stations used to be the solar tower was also not working, like an ancient monument to ideology.

Bowen says small modular reactors will be costly. Not so if production cost estimates of say $60 per MWh by General Electric are correct. Typical spot prices on the NEM are $100-$200 per MWh. Installing SMRs at old coal stations will not require 14,000 km of new unsightly power lines, expensive short lived batteries nor mountain valleys to be dammed. They could also re-employ some of the workers. Bowen needs to check his facts.

Words from another mealy-mouthed politician playing violin for his past failures.

And how many wasted years did his lot sit on their hands and do nothing bur rake in big salaries, while virtue signalling to the unknowns (and I just love this bit of over simplified obfuscation), holding the quaint social licence. Doesn’t that one beat all!.

While all the high priests of the great sun God above, hold each other’s hands and dance in a circle, chanting the same worn out lies in Canberra, those of “us” outside of the circle pay a painful price for the combined negligence and irresponsibility by “them”.

Da

Yap, yap yap.

Albanese open his mind? His mind is already a open space.

Get back to to what gave us the cheapest energy available - coal. We sell it to China and other countries that use it. It is the height of stupidity not to be using it ourselves.

Emissions and temperature targets are completely detached from the issues of human well-being and development.

Rapid deployment of wind and solar power has invariably increased electricity costs and reduced reliability.

The massive swathes of land used for wind and solar farms are causing conflicts, and ruining the environment that the climate hysterics hypocritically claim is the reason we should be rejecting fossil fuels. The next atrocity will be thousands of kilometres of wires and pylons to connect these eyesores to customers.

All this damage is because of the myth that we control weather by reducing carbon dioxide and limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, which leading scientists and the sainted IPCC long ago admitted was dead in water.