Peter Dutton is a joke

 Peter Dutton made a speech the other day on why nuclear power is vital to australia's future.

I have little to ad to what Giles Parkinson has written.

Now we do have more information of the cost of nuclear power in australia. We do not yet have the promised costs and modeling from the Opposition.

Let us just go through this.

Nuclear power is easily the most expensive energy. It takes the longest to build

Gas which they will rely on is the next highest energy source.

Coal on which they must rely on until the nuclear plants are built are unreliable. This year we have not seen a day where ONE unit has not broken down! Alison Reeve queries this and the cost!

They will not allow anymore renewables to be built so where is the energy coming from until nuclear power is running

The solar duck curve means coal power loses money during the day. This would happen to nuclear power. What would the government do?  Not allow any solar power from farms or rooftops? good luck with that.

Please note renewables and base load power do not work together. Indeed in a market where there is only private enterprise baseload power does not make sense. you only want power when demand is around. Excess supply of power is losing money for private enterprise. They only want dispatchable power. This is where you attempt to match demand and supply. both coal and nuclear power is incompatible with this.

I could go on but why bother. The opposition has no answers to these questions and they want to spend a LOT of money on this white elephant.

Thus Peter Dutton is a joke!

Whoopsy I forgot to say the Coalition would have to pass legislation so they could build on property now held by public companies