Dick Smith: Why Scientists Are Biased Against Nuclear

Aussie entrepreneur Dick Smith has claimed Australia's top scientists are biased against nuclear energy and are minimising renewable prices while inflating nuclear costs.
He told us why he's weighing in on the nuclear debate.
#Nuclear #DickSmith #NuclearEnergy

[@arclux]

Can you get some actual independent industry experts on?

[@mikldude9376]

They won’t do it , clearly they are biased against nuclear.

[@tinto278]

This is an entertainment program, not a science or news show. 😂😂

[@arclux]

@@tinto278 It's not even an entertainment program 😂😂😂

[@darrencarter-fk3oo]

LOL the Gencost review, has been discredited on so many levels, it would be a fail/ resubmit for a 1st year uni student 😂😂😂😂

[@marcox978]

That incident in SA where renewables powered 100% of the state happened on only one day. Optimum renewable production with minimal consumption. It only happened once!

[@ashleydavidson4072]

Just make something up or repeat something you heard once?. Google it mate! "From December 12 to 19, National Energy Market data showed wind and solar contributed on average 103.5 per cent towards the state's energy demand."

[@thewayneflyinghigh9128]

That’s becuase it had backup. Renewables are unreliable.

[@Herbert12864]

And our prices are still high. We were sold a con

[@marcox978]

@@Herbert12864 Labor is failing at their experiment and they need to go

[@lisafoodie8443]

i remember hearing this somewhere: australia exports high quality australian coal to china so china can manufacture wind turbines and solar panels... 🙃🤡

[@JohnHorsley-ct3rk]

Ideology blind to facts ,use some deception, repeat lies and have stooges back your narrative .

[@benjamingriswold2564]

We only listen to Kogan now

[@benwilson6145]

Maybe since its so good he should fund his own reactor

[@eezeetoo]

It is illegal - the ban needs to be lifted.

[@benwilson6145]

@@eezeetoo what are you on?

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Nuclear only works economically is if PV and EVs are made illegal. What if the sun is shining for days and days and days ??? What if the sun shines for months and months 🤔 ???? How does the national electrical grid get its $100sbillions in cashflow ???? The national electrical grid is a $TRILLIONS infrastructure investment and needs cashflow.

[@BardCanning]

I'll make up my mind once Bing Lee releases a statement.

[@PeterKhan-s2g]

If that bloke who has 40 years experience in power grid is very blind when Finland went down the renewables path and that country almost went bankrupt until they turned on their new nuclear power plant and the price of power dropped to 30% of baseload power supply

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

Cold latitude solutions are wrong for warm latitudes countries. 😊

[@marcinmorun]

And I love weiners!

[@quietackshon]

Cope

[@carlaburgers3088]

Who listens to SCIRO anyway. They're a bunch of people who can't do their job at all. SCIRO is most probably going to split up.

[@zen1647]

CSIRO is a government funded scientific research organisation. They produce excellent work.

[@KenDyer-wl4lf]

Could it be that scientists are biased against nuclear because they actually know what they are talking about?

[@kreagle]

Mr Smith needs to retire and enjoy life. Leave CSIRO alone

[@mikldude9376]

Why , the csiro gets their money from the government, do you expect the csiro to play any tune that does not align with their paymaster ?

[@kreagle]

@@mikldude9376 wake up and smell the coffee. Leave the conspiracies to professionals 🐒🙈

[@rosso4014]

Amazon just purchased a data centre ($650 m US) so they can access 24/7 emission free nuclear power. Constellation Energy supplies 20 per cent of US nuclear power stock price up 70 per cent this year. Every advanced economy in the world is marching out of step except us. 🥲

[@benwilson6145]

Maybe do some research! No body is installing nuclear reactors, just name on actual company that is. It would take 30 year before it produced power. Potatoes tell lies

[@michaelchilds3305]

Not true Germany is moving away from Nuclear and investing in more renewable energy. Norway relies heavily on Hydro and renewables.

[@zen1647]

@@rosso4014 In 2023 about 5 GW of nuclear power came online globally. Also in 2023 507 GW of renewable energy was deployed.

[@evil17]

@@michaelchilds3305Germany is actually regretting their shutting down of their nuclear reactors as an overstep reaction to the Fukushima incident, they are considering powering up their reactors again because their energy prices have gone way up with renewables, as they have to import expensive (mostly nuclear) energy from neighbouring countries to make up what their renewables can’t.