Yes, the juvenile fear and hatred of nuclear power represents a major deficiency in global energy political thinking. But there's worse to come, as the present crisis crippling global oil supply is clearly demonstrating. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels for a far wider range of products than merely electricity is the real threat, simply because electricity generation without fossil fuels is a piece of cake. The much bigger problem is the 60% of oil and gas NOT used to generate electricity. And most of those other uses have no known substitutes. Now the crippling effects we face of shortages of fertilizers, plastics, explosives and literally thousands of other essential products are getting the publicity they deserve. (And the authors of this article know it.)

While these three nuclear obsessives claim the 'elephant in the room' is the huge cost of transitioning to renewables, the real elephant when it comes to energy, which they've completely ignored, is the thorny issue of how to safely and cost-effectively dispose of nuclear waste. After many decades of throwing endless amounts of money at the problem, no-one anywhere has ever come up with a satisfactory solution.

And yes, it is France which 'offers the clearest answer' to this problem. Their answer is that they have no answers. France releases low-level radioactive effluents containing iodine-129 and other radionuclides into the ocean. This carcinogenic and thyroid-damaging Iodine-129 accumulates and stays radioactive for millions of years. France’s reprocessing of nuclear waste releases about 90 percent of the waste’s I-129 into the biosphere. Its most hazardous nuclear waste which it can't reprocess is buried deeply underground, with ever-spiralling cost blowouts and complete lack of conscience in leaving these ticking time bombs of radiation risk for future generations to deal with. France's nuclear experiment is nowhere near a shining beacon of what a clean energy future can look like. It's actually a cautionary tale we should all learn from. Its nuclear dream has turned into a financial, technical and political nightmare.

Nuclear energy is not the answer. Australia is one of the best placed countries in the world to transition to renewable energy. And the only good thing to come out of Trump and Netanyahu's illegal attack on Iran is that it will accelerate this transition all around the world.

And as for water and energy guzzling data centres, they must be legislated to provide their own renewable energy and desalinated/recycled water. Australia cannot afford to give these power and water hungry monstrosities a free ride!

It is too late for Australia to simply adopt nuclear power. It would take too long to save us from the mess we are headed for now,

If Australians were not disinterested and lazy they would have fought tooth and nail against to climate scam and the lies about sun and wind being cheap and reliable.

If they had found the courage to fight the authoritarian uniparty, we would still have the cheapest and most reliable energy driven by the fossil fuels only dimwit Australia now realises we can't survive without.

Forget nuclear. It can't save Australia, a country doomed by politicians and bureaucrats, and the daft population that allowed them to do it.

We should lobby President Trump. But Albanese is the wrong person to do it. There are other solutions, not as good as nuclear but will keep us limping, but the Greens and Reds are sucking the energy out of the room. Things will break soon, and it will be the Greens fault- then no one will ever trust the Greens again. Then we can do something about the disaster they have created.

The Greens are close to being irrelevant now, make sure we have lists of Greens members so we can make sure they don't have positions of power in the future world.

The Greens have made Australia irrelevant in world affairs, everyone else can have nuclear power except us.

The Greens have used energy policy to weaken and take away US's friends and caused the rise of China.

As the Greens make Australia weak and irrelevant, Greens being part of Australia are weaker too, but they perhaps think China will reward them for their betrayal, and so they will be lifted by their one eyed "friend".