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" .....many reporters don’t understand electricity. They think of electricity as a commodity when it is, in fact, a service — like eating at a restaurant.

The price we pay for the luxury of eating out isn’t just the cost of the ingredients most of which which, like solar panels and wind turbines, has declined for decades.

Rather, the price of services like eating out and electricity reflect the cost not only of a few ingredients but also their preparation and delivery"

Yes, the restaurant a good homespun homily. Where on one hand you go into MacDonalds for an Angus steak and salad and pay twenty bucks for a satisfying meal or down the road to snobbery incorporated where the toffee-nosed proprietor charges a hundred for basically the same meal. All while he remits most of his price gouge profit to foreign lay-a-bout, wouldn't work in an iron lung, rallies? 2 CENTS PER KwH, ANYBODY!? MSR thorium anybody!? Alan B

Nuclear Power? What of the power of Mrs Avery?

Mrs Avery? Sylvia's Mother!

A fitting epitaph of the poor right now, unable to pay power bills. Forget nuclear power, it's too late, Sylvia's catching the nine o'clock train; she's marrying another, (presumable a wealthier catch, and has moved down Galveston way).

But pleeese! (and on his knees) , if ya got forty cents more you can talk to the ex-Mother in law.

F* off, I'd rather burn candles, its more honourable!

DD,

I'm sure you think there's some relevance there...but you'd be wrong.

BTW Mrs Avery wasn't the ex Mother in law. The author hadn't married Sylvie.

So I'll just take the "next three minutes" to "tell [y]'er goodbye".

The only reason we need to even consider nuclear is because of the jihad against coal.

By far the best and most economic solution for Australia is to go full-on coal of which we have several hundred years supply, and sell as much uranium to the rest of the world as they want to take.

mhaze

Yep, I like your idea, we could burn coal in a five gallon drum in the middle of the loungroom floor. Good heat in that,

We could also reinvent the calcicium carbide lamp, for excellent lighting from acetylene.

And reintroduce the stanly steamer with a coal fired furnace attached to the rear of the vehicle.

Great uses for coal: And affordable for the poor, unable to pay power bills.