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Renewable energy targets raise base-load costs, driving it out of the market : Comments

By Geoff Carmody, published 29/6/2018

Renewable energy targets (RETs) impose anthropogenic cost 'event horizons' on base-load power. These 'horizons' are power cost points of no return.

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I can't abide by blithe mention of storage being added to networks as if there is some feasible, economically viable form of it.

Also, any notion that gas, as a bridge for renewables towards a future marriage with this mythical storage, can do anything really useful to battle AGW along the way, is foolish. Your nuances and "little differences" have no impact.

Australia can go down the path of renewables plus OCGT gas, and succeed in meeting electricity demand at high cost and inefficient, hence more expensive, gas usage. It can go baseload down CCGT or even HELE paths. None of these yield sufficient emissions reductions to significantly mitigate against AGW. These facts are irrefutable.

The zero emissions option, the only existent and proven option towards achieving anything against AGW in the time we have, you say is too expensive. SMRs are a nigh, storage isn't, so cut the passive-aggressive stance against it and look all the facts in the eye.

Regarding what's going on in the US and Europe, pro-nuclear environmentalist forces are gathering to oppose nuclear shut-downs be they for greenie ideological or economic reasons. Everyone is in agreement on safety, pro- and anti-nuke. My sources on closures, threats of closure, and deals done to hold nuclear as a hostage to the ransom of even further renewables subsidies, is all over the internet. You can start by looking at what happened in New Jersey.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/09/140924-natural-gas-impact-on-emissions/

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/03/120314-natural-gas-global-warming-study/

http://www.nuscalepower.com/ et al.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2018/04/12/saving-new-jerseys-nuclear-plants-came-at-a-hefty-price/
Posted by Luciferase, Friday, 6 July 2018 12:18:15 PM
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The Chinese think nuclear has a future, with two new EPR reactors coming online.

https://mailchi.mp/world-nuclear-news/weekly-digest-29-june-6-july-2018?e=381da1a0be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

Mass production is the way forward https://tinyurl.com/y6vsdkop
Posted by Luciferase, Friday, 6 July 2018 6:14:24 PM
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