There is only one form of power generation we should use, & that is the cheapest.

There is no credible evidence that CO2 has any detrimental effect on our climate or life style, so if coal is cheapest, & it is right now, that is what we should use.

There is lots of evidence that nuclear can be as safe or safer than any other form of power generation, so as long as it is reasonably competitive with coal, we should be using that, at least to some extent.

If we could throttle the Victorian & NSW parliaments, & start harvesting the massive gas available in each state, it might be the cheapest, as it is in the USA, & should be used.

Our problem is a political one, not climate, & while B grade politicians don't have the guts to chose the best long term option, we are heading for the scrap heap of history.

Nice link, Foxy.

The other problem is unselling the pup that renewables are an alternative to nuclear but without the nasties.
The strategy should not only be to spruik nuclear, but to highlight the immense short-comings of renewables as a solution to the trilemma of emissions, consumer cost and reliability.

Too many people think all they need is some solar panels and a battery to go off-grid, thanks to the lala-land promotion going on out there. Deficiencies in scientific literacy, and the absence of a counter-campaign to this nonsense allows the notion to flourish, along with notion that Australia can be feasibly and economically viably powered with renewables without an enormous scientific break-through.

Hasbeen,ttbn,

We've got a generation coming through that will vote coal off the map, regardless of what you think, when Labor gets its pitch right. However, they'll listen to the right nuclear narrative.

Hi there FOXY -

Thank you very much indeed for that Link on Nuclear Energy. It was sufficiently simple, even a dullard like me could understand. Thanks again.

Lucifrase,

You might be right, although predictions for the future are not turning out very well lately.

When the ridiculous lowering of interest rates to fix our economy is proven to be ridiculous, the government is going to have to react to the nonsense about coal and get back cheap energy to create wealth and jobs. Whether or not Labor gets its act together, as you suggest it might, is irrelevant for the next three years; they were rejected largely over the coal issue and unreliable energy and, with Albanese picking some real loo loos for his front bench, we won't be seeing them as alternative during the next three years - in which time Morrison has to go back to the tried and true to keep us out of penury.

Foxy,

You're right, we shouldn't be using the sixty-year-old technology of Chernobyl. Maybe there have been some advances in safety since the fifties ? How is nuclear going in France and Finland ?

Joe