Sunday 6 November 2022

what the government should do about energy.

 Okay I know I talked an]bout this last week but it needs reinforcement.

Medium Term

This is easy peezy. Get a lot more renewables into the grid. They are easily the cheapest forms of energy. They are now both recyclable and the new windmills are not affected by wind droughts. We know wind and solar droughts are nowhere near as bad as previously thought. Nor do we need as much firming either. The CSIRO has examined this and found this to be the case.

nuclear power is a problem. It takes a long time to build and is very expensive. Small modular reactors have supporters BUT they exist mainly on submarines not in commercial use. In addition they only use a certain form of uranium that is only sold by Russia! The other problem is that advocates who say they could easily slide into old coal fired power stations do not realise they would not have the same output as that of the stations they are replacing.

We  will ignore for the moment base load power is only needed when the State government owns the assets ( to avoid blackouts.) In a system owned by the private sector it is dispatchable power that is king.

Short Term

We talked about this very recently. Rod Sims and Bruce Robertson are on a unity ticket. Use the export powers to lower gas prices. After Gas examine coal and do something similar.

Lastly Graham Readfearn has a very good point.

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