With the way environmental protections are, new coal power and mining are effectively banned as well as nuclear. Remove the ideological restrictions and let capitalism do its thing. Cult leader Albo thinks that you can make wind and solar work by banning the alternatives and with massive subsidies. Australians are being conned.

"At the moment there is no comparison and a transition to 100% nuclear would take arguably longer than 70 years."

The French supplied 150% of their electricity demand in fifteen years with nuclear power. They started the program half a century ago. When the program ended, the build time for a nuclear power station was five years. There is no reason why a multinational effort could not achieve the same today.

Nuclear power is a proven technology, and provides very low cost and reliable dispatchable energy over the operating life of the plant. No wonder the wind and solar scam artists hate it so much.

It’s funny how often data gets presented as proof of disaster when it actually shows the opposite.

Between 2017 and 2024, solar and wind output almost quadrupled, and renewables rose from 15 % to 35 % of total generation. That’s not a collapse, it’s a transition doing exactly what transitions do: growing fast, then levelling into steady expansion.

Even the "slow" years in that table added more clean generation than the entire decade before 2015. AEMO’s latest figures put renewables at 43 % of the grid this year - a new record.

Yet somehow, this becomes evidence that renewables are "failing." When you're against something for purely ideological reasons, everything must look like a failture.

If this trajectory counts as ruin, we should be so lucky in every other sector.

That’s not a collapse, it’s a transition doing exactly what transitions do: growing fast, then levelling into steady expansion.
John Daysh,
On more normal transitions I'd wholeheartedly agree however, in the alternative energy circus this is not the case. The only fast growing & steady expansion are the crowds of hanger-on wannabe engineers & consultants & the highly polluting manufacturers of this unsustainable folly !