Once again, Fester:

//If wind and solar are the cheapest and fastest then why are power prices so high and why is it taking so long?//

Because you’re cherry-picking prices during the transition, not after.

Countries like Australia and Germany have invested heavily in grid upgrades and early subsidies - front-loading costs. Yet wholesale prices during peak solar/wind are now plummeting. Australia had negative wholesale prices in SA during daytime in 2023, while rooftop solar cut demand and bills nationwide.

//Every nation that pursues wind and solar ends up with higher power prices.//

False.

IEA, Lazard, and CSIRO GenCost show wind and solar are now the cheapest new build energy sources globally. Prices rise where fossil fuels set the marginal cost - not because of wind and solar, but because of lagging fossil dependency and gas price volatility (e.g., during Ukraine conflict).

//Tech companies are going nuclear.//

They’re experimenting with SMRs, most of which do not exist yet. The Amazon article you linked shows only concept art and early design approvals. Meanwhile, those same companies are also building massive solar, wind, and battery farms.

As for the video you linked to, Ridd’s central claim is deeply misleading for three reasons:

1. Most marine calcifiers still depend on carbonate or are affected by pH shifts. Corals aren’t the whole story - mollusks, urchins, plankton are highly vulnerable, and ecosystem stability relies on them.

2. Acidification affects more than calcification. It alters larval development, behavior, enzyme function, and predator/prey interactions. Ridd ignores this entirely.

3. His citations (e.g. Spaulding, Willard) are cherry-picked and often buried in supplementary data, as he admits. He also omits recent reviews that continue to show measurable stress responses in coral physiology, even when bicarbonate is available

He builds a whole thesis from a narrow slice of literature and never quantifies uncertainty, just dismisses mainstream findings.

Ridd’s downplaying of acidification is as selective as your portrayal of nuclear. If SMRs become viable, great - but they’re not here yet. Wind, solar, and batteries are here now, scaling faster and cheaper.

That’s not a "scam," it’s just reality.

Fester You mention other countries, other countries are not Australia. We have the most intense and length of sunshine of anywhere in the world.
solar trades in negative costs how marketable is that and can you beat that.
Transition takes time like any other major project, and there protesters to put up with like yourself.
No one owns vista as many would have you believe.
40 years of climate denial has added major costs of any solution of change. That means we are 40 years behind any turnaround of an apparent solution. Which may even be to much and to late for a solution.
All because of ignorance and politics.