The UK government announced on September 8th. that the fifth auction for contracts for renewable energy was a failure.

The industry has declared that electricity prices are not high enough, and without higher subsidies they will stop building.

There were no bids for offshore wind, the UK's "flagship renewable generator.

We are not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people.’

— UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

The Sunak government has axed Net Zero plans that would have cost each family $AU30,000.

Meanwhile, Albanese and Bungler Bowen carry on, reducing Australia to a poorer version of the old USSR.

Yes, extraordinary how silent and uncritical some media has been about the nuclear cost estimate Bowen touted. Here he is saying nuclear is off the table as it's prohibitively expensive, then he releases a cost estimate suggesting that nuclear would cost a fraction of what non-dispatchable wind and solar might cost. Hopefully the ABC might comment on this contradiction sometime.

'We are not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people.’

The rich wouldn't go bankrupt.
They have all their money in offshore accounts and investments that create windfalls off of the crisis while others are freezing to death in their beds.

Yes Paul, we had won the lottery & got to the top of the waiting list for a kero fridge in Townsville in 1948. Mum could now make ice cream, a luxury not often available so soon after the war.

We also had a chip shower & a wood fuel copper to do the washing. Two of my jobs were to gather the chips & wood for the copper from Castle Hill. Probably illegal now thanks to our greeny friends. The other job was swinging handle on the manual wringer

Different times. No problem getting petrol, we didn't need it, as you had to know the right people to get a car. Even an old bomb was highly sort after. We finally got a 1928 Chev in 1952.

We also lived in a dirt floor tin shed when we moved to Bathurst, while dad built enough house to move into. At one stage work stopped for a month when you couldn't get nails. We had a procession of people after our shed, when we moved into the part built house.

No we didn't feel deprived, everyone we knew was in the same position, & we had just won a war. We felt lucky our fathers had come home.

People could grow their own to some extent in those days, with large yards. Today in most sub developments you could mow the small bit of land with a pair of scissors as quickly as with a mower. No room to grow much food.

We have trained a couple of generations to depend on power at the plug, refrigeration & food at the local supermarket. Retraining them now to a 40s life style would be near impossible in less that a generation.

No Dan, I won't jump !
There is a quick way to find out the real cost of modular reactors,
just call for tenders.
Problem is I believe that there is only one design currently approved.

Reading everyone's hard childhood times I realise how easy I had it.
My father a returned wounded soldier was a painter on the tramways
and we had an icebox for food. We later bought a car.

The IEA is forecasting that oil demand will exceed supply in December
or January. So Hasbeen stock up on diesel.
At $387 billion for 71 nukes Bowen should write the cheque now !