Since coal and gas account for 83% of Australia's electricity (Energy Update 2019 Table 3.2) it's a good thing their workers are immune to pandemics. Otherwise the power could go out for hospitals, respirators and dialysis machines. Meanwhile aluminium smelters and sewage farms could somehow work at night when the wind is not blowing. Some form of low carbon dispatchble generation needs to replace coal and gas.

Go with this one Alan B!

Dan

You really have to peculiar to see any connection between nuclear energy and the China China virus.

The first of the soon to be tsunami of Climate Change Cultists led assault on anything that they hate. What a pointless waste of space opportunism by the author and his mates

COVID-19 to the rescue, worse than the blatant, advertising sycophantic performance between Lisa Miller and her luvie girlfriend that entitled "North Shore Sydney Princess" Julia Baird promoting her latest driffle book " Phosphorescence" as a relief for COVID-19 attention disorder syndrome! Our ABC my arse, Its Their ABC, we just pay their bloated salaries and expenses( probably larger).

I concur with diver dan, and await with glee to see Alan B let rip. Go Alan B get "stuck into him" as Billy Connelly would say!

Coronovirus will have no affect at all on the Sun, the only nuclear power source we need.

Taswegian,
I thought the figure you supplied looked dodgy so I checked and it was. You misread the table, ignoring the contribution from oil.

Anyway, those figures are out of date now, as there's been a lot of investment in solar power since the 2017-18 financial year. I don't know what the figure is for Australia as a whole, but for the NEM over the past year, the market share from fossil fuels was 76.2%