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A pilot plant for Net Zero : Comments

By Viv Forbes, published 30/7/2024

People who bought an electric car for quiet mobility will suddenly find they were just financing a cog in Bowen’s Blackout Insurance Plan.

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The United States produces 2,200 tons of nuclear waste each year…and no one knows what to do with it. The federal government has long promised, but never delivered, a safe place for nuclear power plants to store their spent fuel. This means that radioactive waste is piling up all over the country. We visited one of the worst places where the waste is stuck: a beachside power plant uncomfortably close to both San Diego and Los Angeles. And we asked the people in charge of the waste there: what happens now?
AEMO does not sell power, they generate power, to buy power you have to buy on the spot price market. Which varies every 5 minutes. Each state has it’s own market. Which is supply and demand. The more sunshine and wind in the grid the lower the spot price, We are doing very well being the middle of winter. In summer all markets will be in negative figures / KwH. That will not effect your electric bill because you pay what your retailer says so.
Posted by doog, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 4:13:49 PM
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The minister for everything is the irresponsible ass for doing nothing for 10 years.
'A sickening smokescreen for its commitment to coal and gas...
Dutton’s scheme is: let the climate burn, let the mega fires burn, let the sea levels rise, let the heat become unbearable. Let’s send our children towards climate disaster.
Posted by doog, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 4:29:32 PM
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"The United States produces 2,200 tons of nuclear waste each year…and no one knows what to do with it."

It is actually a resource as 96% of the fissile material remains in spent fuel. The Germans don't reprocess spent fuel because it was banned after lobbying by the Greens.

There are many proposals for recycling nuclear waste. One proposal would provide 40% of the United States nuclear fuel as well as a number of other valuable products for the next half century. It would process 200,000 tonnes of waste over that time and leave waste requiring containment for a few centuries. Further, the amount of waste would be so small that it could be buried in four bore holes less than 10 metres apart. Advanced reactor designs will be able to utilise nuclear waste as well.

https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/when-nuclear-waste-is-an-asset-not-a-burden

Yep, stay away from nuclear. No point in denying the Patron of the Environment the opportunity to exterminate koalas and vandalise the GDR, desecrating its beauty and covering it with toxic wind factories. Go cult leader Albo, saviour of Australia!
Posted by Fester, Tuesday, 30 July 2024 8:47:56 PM
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That’s right!

Spent nuclear fuel can be recycled to make new fuel and byproducts.

More than 90% of its potential energy still remains in the fuel, even after five years of operation in a reactor.

The United States does not currently recycle spent nuclear fuel but foreign countries, such as France, do.

There are also some advanced reactor designs in development  that could consume or run on spent nuclear fuel in the future.
The US does not recycle it's nuclear fuel as it is cost prohibitive and cheaper to use new fuelling.
Posted by doog, Wednesday, 31 July 2024 1:06:14 PM
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Keith Alder, then boss at Lucas heights stated that the waste problem
can be solved and make big money at the same time.
Build two special nuclear power stations and feed the first one with
the waste and when the waste is depleted as for as that reactor is
concerned feed that waste into the second one and repeat the depletion.
Other countries would pay us a fortune to take their waste and we get
free electricity from the two plants and the much depleted waste we
store underground in Australia and get big payments from other countries.
Posted by Bezza, Saturday, 3 August 2024 10:46:59 AM
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I see Albo at the aboriginal gathering says his plans for renewables
across the country will make the lives of aborigines and the rest
all the same because of the renewables industry in the country.
He is right, it will we will all be living like aborigines do now.
The longer Labour/Greens are in power the further off a real solution
for the energy requirements of a modern economy can be attained.
I just cannot see how we can avoid many years of blackouts that will
cripple industry.
The large plants that were blown up are not there to be subsidised !
Posted by Bezza, Saturday, 3 August 2024 10:57:38 AM
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