Peta Credlin highlights Labor’s selective truths on renewable energy

Sky News host Peta Credlin says if the next election will be a “referendum” on nuclear energy as Labor says then the Australian public will know more on transition costs.
“If, as Labor says, the next election will be a referendum on nuclear energy it will turn on voters’ understanding of system costs,” Ms Credlin said.
“It is true wind and solar power is cheap, when the weather cooperates, the problem is we need power 24/7.”

[@knight2425]

Watch Labor in parliament and you see they never ever answer a question but instead go off rambling rubbish trying to deflect answering questions because the truth is very damaging to them

[@paulstarrXposed]

one cannot reply to indoctrination - especially when huge corporations and their shareholders are more important to the political partys open pockets.

[@janemelrose7208]

You can’t say the coalition party don’t do the same thing. You are hilarious 🤣

[@johnmancini4700]

Standard practice for any labour government. Where’s there’s smoke there’s fire. So they do everything to hide the details and whole truth.

[@knight2425]

@@janemelrose7208 have you watched parliament lately? Nowhere near as much as Labor and it was Albo that promised transparency wasn’t it? lol

[@lukeclifton4392]

@@janemelrose7208Would you elaborate on where you think the Liberals are being “influenced/bought”?? Because as far as I see it, you’ve got Labor donations from the mining company conference, donations from the major unions, Labor running “renewable” energy propaganda (that happens to support Chinese manufacturing in every facet)… and more.

[@rachaelcourtnell7275]

Why did all Australian Federal governments decide Australia would no longer be "The lucky country"? Why?

[@memine3704]

Because our 'leaders' march to a foreign tune. :(

[@garystrahan4601]

WEF

[@user-rq2zu6gm3n]

greed and self interests!

[@marcbra5074]

I’m in grief at the destruction of the ecology. Farm land can’t be renewed once the turbines expire in 15 yrs & cement foundation unusable, & glass panels expire. No they are not renewables.

[@PK51X]

100%, we may have power but won’t be able to feed ourselves as there will be no farming land left

[@tassied12]

Look up agrivoltaics. Solar farms can actually improve land productivity. One of Australia's largest solar farms shares its land with 6,000 sheep. The Connerville property in Northern Tasmania is installing a large (288MW) solar farm. This is what its owner had to say about the project: “We can look after some of the natural element of the pasture and we can provide a bit of habitat for sheep under the solar panels, a bit of shade to shield them - it’s a win-win,”

[@tassied12]

@@PK51X Renewables and farming can be compatible. Look up agrivoltaics. One of Australia's largest solar farms shares the land with 6,000 sheep.

[@PK51X]

@@tassied12 agreed they can be compatible, but unfortunately is not how it’s being rolled out. Prime farming land is being consumed for solar farms then miles of poles and wires run to connect it all to something.

[@tassied12]

@@PK51X Agrivoltaics - Renewables and farming can co-exist

[@trevordutch6748]

Peta...RUN...PLEASE...RUN for PM.

[@countyorga764]

The whining murdoch turd thought she was running the country when chief of staff 👅to the mad monk. That went well 😂😂😂.

[@janemelrose7208]

Hell no

[@colinjones5100]

@@janemelrose7208 And why would that be??

[@janemelrose7208]

@@colinjones5100 there are so many reasons one being she just doesn’t bother to do full research of facts. She really doesn’t care about those who are not of her class/ilk. The biggest reason she is just a puppet for Murdoch so hence a right wing bigot.

[@janemelrose7208]

@@colinjones5100 for so many reasons 1. She doesn’t bother to look at all the facts 2. Is self serving only concerned about herself and those of her ilk. 3. She is a Murdoch puppet. 4. The fact she was an advisor to Abbot speaks volumes ( what a clown car that was 🙄)

[@rosssayer6524]

Labour has not told us how much their system is costing ???? More lies

[@clydesimpson1462]

$1.5 Trillion so far. One million hectares of pristine flora and fauna destroyed. Add in 28,000 km's of transmission lines and the destruction of seabeds and arable farmland. And we learn today Australia requires 6x more wind and solar farms than it currently has to reach 85% renewables.

[@1knightinbangkok946]

Nuclear is no dearer than renewables like wind and solar. In fact, Nuclear is cheaper over the life of the power station...

[@smartgoku9048]

not to mention it works 24/7. how thoses idiots think the sun shines on the night side of the planet baffles me.

[@tassied12]

If nuclear is so good, then why is its share of global power generation being replaced by renewables? The IEA forecasts that, based on current construction activity, global power generation from renewables will increase by 3200 TWh over the period 2023-26 while nuclear will increase by a paltry 250 TWh in comparison.

[@janemelrose7208]

That’s not true the CSIRO have proof it costs 85 million dollars to build a nuclear power plant and twice as much as renewable energy to run.

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

@@tassied12follow the money. Corruption runs deep.

[@tassied12]

@@paddlesmcbean2366 Historically nuclear has not happened without the investment of huge amounts of government money, as the LNP is proposing here. I can point to a laundry list of corruption cases that have resulted from the misuse of those government funds by the nuclear industry around the world

[@pieterwiffers3095]

Sack albo now

[@stewatparkpark2933]

Panels and windmills need replacing every 20 years or less .

[@raymondparnell439]

Much much less they've been known to spontaneously combust 😂😂

[@raymondparnell439]

A bit like the left 😂

[@RogueElementMkII]

Try 5 to 10 years max. We don't have the amount of service technicians required, in order to be able to maintain them all.

[@aussie5183]

Not to Menton the gear boxes in wind turbines only last 3 years

[@PK51X]

Exactly, a convenient truth they always seem to ignore. And there will be hail storms that wipe out entire solar farms too so I’d say 5-10 years at best for a solar farm.

[@user-se2rz5cf3z]

Why is Australia becoming a third world country and being forced to keep our resources in the ground? Use them to make Australia a rich and powerful nation.

[@LuciferBlack-y7c]

Lol.. And when those resources run out......? 😆😆😆......... everyday there's another fool.

[@wyatthurts1729]

@@LuciferBlack-y7cthey are already exporting gas and are the second largest exporter so just keep it for ourselves instead, but the government sold it allowing it out of the country, without taxation on profits or royalties

[@dontbeasheeple5883]

@@LuciferBlack-y7c every day there's the same fool - you.

[@user-zd3xs4ts6f]

Common sense has already run out with buffoons like Bowen and Al-pinocchio 😂😂😂

[@LuciferBlack-y7c]

@@wyatthurts1729 10th year clean energy reliant via moving water Hunter valley... Just imagine that Australia was an island surrounded by moving water 24/7........🤔 🌋🌊🌬️☀️ - powering mother earth successfully for 5.432 billion years and counting. 👍

[@billrandalls973]

Plus the cost to replace the wind and solar every 15 to 20 years

[@KookaburraAU9908]

Casanova Bowen has failed in every portfolio he has ever had. Nuclear energy plant 90-100 years life span. Wind and solar farm lifespan maybe 20 years.

[@Prognosis__]

It’s not about cheap or expensive…it’s about a stable energy grid

[@johnwoodrow8769]

Not even these media commentators understand the role that large spinning generators play in maintaining grid stability, the critical role of VARs and frequency control. All things that wind and solar don't do particularly well.

[@janemelrose7208]

It’s also about protecting the environment for all future generations I.e your children and grandchildren,

[@tassied12]

@@johnwoodrow8769 Do you still use your CRT TV? Its a shame that media commentators (and those that comment on them) dont understand the history of new technology replacing old. Big batteries have cornered the Australian market in frequency control services because, as electronic devices, they provide faster and more accurate frequency response than the gas generators that used to do the job. The Tesla battery did so well at this, it paid for itself inside 3 years. The original Tesla Big Battery in SA was doubled in size from its original installation to provide inertia services to the grid, something traditionally carried out by large spinning generators. Electronic syncons in SA have carried out a similar role, and grid forming inverters are being added to solar installations

[@Prognosis__]

@@johnwoodrow8769 exactly

[@ThatGuy-ze5kk]

@@tassied12 and two weeks ago SA's renewable power generation fell to 11% overnight... they were literally burning diesel in a desperate attempt to keep the lights on!!

[@user-hs8qj2fi9y]

If Labor and their advisers think they can pull green energy over the line they need to look over seas to see what is going on. Their over seas trips must of been beer, wine and sun tan.

[@johngeier8692]

Germany has based its energy policy upon the same 3 ridiculous popular delusions as the ALP is doing in Australia. Electricity prices have skyrocketed and heavy industry is leaving the country. People are realising that Net Zero is economically destructive delusional insanity and they are voting accordingly. The largely useless renewable energy equipment will soon end up in landfill.

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

We should be going back to Coal as it works well and has for our entire history of electricity.

[@johntomasini3916]

Coal is losing it's value because fewer countries are using it. Many mines have closed down in the US because the owners say it's not viable.

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

@@johntomasini3916 BS and China has over 2000 plus Coal power stations let alone alone India you fool. Vietnam is building 80 and it is still the second biggest earner for Australia in export earnings. Get your facts right first.

[@RogueElementMkII]

​@@johntomasini3916Investors don't see it as viable, because there's more money to be made through their share portfolios, and investments in renewables. Which will be made in countries like China and Vietnam, who WILL BE using even more coal fired power, gas, and oil resources to make these so-called renewables. China currently has 6 times more coal fired power stations under construction, than the rest of the world combined. Let that sink in.

[@hadrian3487]

Plus our coal is clean, not like in some countries it’s dirty, hence the pollution. Are our cities polluted, no they are not, I can see the horizon and it’s sharp, not like in some overseas cities where it’s constantly think haze and grey skies with no clouds. Some cities never see blue sky.

[@PK51X]

@@johntomasini3916that should make coal even cheaper. We could have endless supply of cheap electricity and then replace it over the long term with nuclear.

[@christopherharrold3045]

wind and solar and batteries are only good for around 20 years then its more expense to replace it all if cyclone's or bad weather doesn't destroy them . do you like to gamble.

[@gregtanner1444]

Wind turbines and solar panels have limited useful lives. What will the replacement costs be?

[@johntomasini3916]

I owned two irrigated Dairy Farms in Northern Victoria, left the industry in 96, Irrigation water is now to expensive to irrigate pasture, both farms are dry now and no dairy cows on them, if I still owned them I would cover them with Solar Panels. The are three Solar Farms with five kilometers of where I farmed, change your thinking.

[@UncannySense]

@@johntomasini3916 how do panels supply people with meat and milk? what made water so expensive? Did the 3 farms pay for the panels themselves and install them. or was it all done with tax payers money and government subsidies. I'm not upset about the alternatives I'm just disappointed we live in a country where farmers cant farm.

[@RogueElementMkII]

Trillions.

[@johntomasini3916]

@@RogueElementMkII That is an over statement. The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed. Most of the commercial-scale turbines installed today are 2 MW in size and cost roughly $3-$4 million installed.

[@RogueElementMkII]

@@johntomasini3916 $9 trillion to reach anywhere near Net Zero isn't an overstatement, it's a fact. Then, before we're even finished, start the decommissioning, and reinstallation all over again. That won't ever end.

[@MarkForbes-dr4ie]

They have their own money invested in renewables.

[@johngeier8692]

They are a very bad investment. The largely useless renewable energy equipment will soon end up in landfill.

[@NeverGonaHappen]

No "Renewables" are NOT cheap, EVER; The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from a new nuclear power plant is estimated to be 69 USD/MWh, according to an analysis by the International Energy Agency and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. This represents the median cost estimate for an nth-of-a-kind nuclear power plant to be completed in 2025, at a discount rate of 7%. Nuclear power was found to be the least-cost option among dispatchable technologies. Variable renewables can generate cheaper electricity: the median cost of onshore wind power was estimated to be 50 USD/MWh, and utility-scale solar power 56 USD/MWh. At the assumed CO2 emission cost of 30 USD/ton, power from coal (88 USD/MWh) and gas (71 USD/MWh) is more expensive than low-carbon technologies. Electricity from long-term operation of nuclear power plants by lifetime extension was found to be the least-cost option, at 32 USD/MWh. NB: Remove the Carbon Tax from the cost of Coal and Gas you get Coal @ 58 USD/Mwh and 41 for Gas. PLUS facter in the Production vs Installed Capacity 33% for Wind and 13% for Solar (98% for Coal,Gas & Nuc)and the REAL costs are; Solar 56 / 13% = 430 per GENERATED USD/MWh Wind 50 / 33% = 151 Nuclear 69 / 98% = 70 The Winner if you agree with the Carbon Tax and believe that manufacturing Panels and Turbines are Net 0 Coal 88 / 98 = 89 (Without the "Carbon TAX" = 59) Gas 71 / 98% = 72 ( "" 42 The Clear Winner)

[@tassied12]

You glossed over a couple of key points that are important in the Australian context and likely to make any nuclear builds unviable here. To get a lifetime extension of a LTO plant, you actually have to have a plant in LTO. Australia has ZERO plants. Plants in LTO were built 30 years ago in a very different technology landscape to what we have now. Plants in LTO have been able to pay off their massive initial capital costs by operating over decades at near full capacity with predictable demand profiles. That world no longer exists, especially in Australia. The IEA paper also notes that nuclear costs are particularly sensitive to the discount rate, because it means repayment cost on loans blow out and destroy the economics. The rise of renewables and recent project blowouts for nuclear projects (Hinkley, Vogtle, Flamanville, Olkiluoto) means that a risk premium is now attached to nuclear investment. The modular nature of wind and solar construction means an investor can see a ROI within 2-3 years, whereas for nuclear, they may have to wait over a decade to see their first watt of energy generated. This is one of the main reasons 85% of global power investment is going to renewables and just 1% is going to nuclear - the financial risk is simply too great. Based on current construction, the IEA forecasts global renewables output will grow by 3200 TWh over the period 2023-26 while nuclear output will grow by just 250 TWh.

[@russellcullen9913]

How much energy do you use to make a solar penal or wind turbines.

[@drdoug007]

Unreliable Energy (Wind/Solar), is great at all the wrong times. The power bills shows it is certainly not the cheapest

[@alexfagyas9342]

Thank you Peta Credlin for your hsrd work and thank you for your time and effort to inform us about the national and international issues. You Peta, have a wisdom and knowledge about issues .... God blrss you Peta, and your family.

[@wongnaichungrd]

Bowen can’t even pronounce the word nuclear correctly. Pretty much sums up his incompetence.

[@chairmandan1794]

I'll have the last laugh! People laugh when I carry around my fart bottle (renewable energy).

[@PK51X]

I’m sure there will be a fart tax at some point.

[@johngeier8692]

The average adult expels 400 ml of methane per day.

[@RichardCawte]

Last I saw. $ 460b for nuclear. $ 1.5 t for green. Do the math.

[@johngeier8692]

Worldwide over $10 trillion has already been spent on renewable energy projects and carbon dioxide emissions are continuing to increase. Net Zero is economically destructive delusional insanity. It needs to be abandoned and the most economical energy resources available need to be utilised.

[@clydesimpson1462]

Just this week: $288 million for sport $245 million for Aboriginal health $45 million for advertising renewable energy $22.7 billion for future made in Australia fund

[@scottnewton9619]

Peta Credlin, you're the bomb. I never miss your column in the Herald Sun & agree with all of what you have to say. You really should go into Politics, we need someone hard hitting, honest & straight to the point. You have more spine and guts than any of the others.

[@paulpedersen295]

Bowen is, and has been a disaster for Australia. He has never had a real job, and has mishandled every political portfolio he has held. Bowen is a serial incompetent and has cost ordinary Australians thousands of dollars with his idiotic actions and ideas.

[@nikolastsatsaronis5544]

Peta Credlin! We can make solar and wind power far more efficient! 1. Their abc would only be allowed to operate when the Sun is shining or the wind is blowing! 2. abc funding would be cut on a pro rata basis. This would save the taxpayer hundreds of millions every year. 3. Electricity blackouts would be introduced strategically! 4. Teal, Green and Alp electorates would be blacked out first and reconnected last protecting manufacturing, rural industries and Coalition electorates!

[@chopperking007]

Labor are clueless...who's model are the following ?

[@lornatodd4750]

My little rainbow 🌈 pony's.

[@MrMikeV00]

Fact. Fact. Fact. Fact.. I'm ducking behind a chair.

[@takis012]

Tell this to all the South Australians who are paying the highest prices in the world.. And now the government wants to also charge the people with solar to pay for power taken onto the grid.

[@AlanRailton]

The renewables also have a lifetime of around 25 years max and must then be replaced. Thats all wind turbine, solar panels and batteries. Labor are living in a dreamworld.

[@tonyheron3228]

I wonder if all the mum and dad’s super funds are with current govt blessing very heavily invested in renewables. So back flip on renewables would be devastating on fund returns ?

[@timcoller177]

Bowen is full of hot air - maybe he could power the wind turbines ?

[@jamesaustralian9829]

If the gov was serious about renewable and keping your costs down, they would put solar on your roof, with a small turbine and battery.

[@geckoesncrows]

What's so hard about saying the word: "nuclear", pronounced 'new-clear'. Why can't people pronounce it correctly?

[@user-dk7mg4ht1z]

Now, if only we could muster the wind and filibuster of Labor, we will never want for power for a long time! They are big on talk but no substance or sincerity. Sadly, a lot of our countrymen fall for this sort of theatrics. I grieve for our country and what these madmen have turned it into.

[@craigharris7236]

Can someone just ask , if renewables are so , so , cheap, why are Bills going up ??

[@tassied12]

Our power prices have been going up because our coal plants keep breaking down, not because of renewables The Australian Energy Regulator sets the benchmarks for consumer power prices. When they released the benchmarks for 2023/24 they gave the main reason for price rises as outages at coal plants over the last 2 years forcing expensive gas to be used to fill the gap. In the winter of 2022, up to 14 out of 47 coal generators were offline at once. Callide C still has a unit offline after a catastrophic explosion in May 2021 that caused blackouts in SE Qld and into NSW. It had another unit offline for months due to a cooling tower problem. All that is going to cost over $400 million to fix at the latest estimate Current wholesale prices are highest in the most fossil fuel dependent states (Qld and NSW). The AER also said that prices would have been even higher had not increased renewables output filled part of the gap left by failing coal plants

[@alanh5187]

The bills have been going up because of a decade of inept LNP energy policy. Industry were reluctant to invest because of LNP climate change denialism. Going forward a more considered stable energy policy will support investment, so what does the LNP do in opposition? They start raving on with more anti renewable reteric and propose nuclear power plants that would only supply a small portion of the total and industry investment will run a mile from.

[@craigharris7236]

@@tassied12 that is the most ridiculous crap I've ever heard !! Renewables are only cheap when coal plants are running ..have a good read of the rubbish You wrote in defence of windmills and mirrors ....

[@craigharris7236]

@@alanh5187 only $275 .00 how could he make THAT promise ?? He had all the info...

[@tassied12]

@@craigharris7236 The AER sets the benchmarks for consumer prices. Because of the way our merit order power market works, THE biggest influence on Australian power prices is the price of gas

[@DogSKiD]

FREE AUSTRALIA FROM BIG BUSINESS TAX THIEVES!!!

[@ralphmogridge8364]

Travelled and lived in 3 regions over the last twelve years only blackout or power outage was the one where we didn't have Solar!!! The weather doesn't play nice for generation transmission and distribution either!!!

[@pkd6369]

a triple AAA battery has more power credebility than the whole Labor Party

[@Beechwood-tm9pu]

Someone should get Labor to commit not to sign contracts for renewables if they look like loosing an election. What they will do (as was done by Labour in NSW some years ago) is sign contracts locking in future governments to their policies or face massive penalty costs to break the contracts.

[@chopperking007]

Renewables will never give the poor cheap power let alone manufacturing

[@matcole1975]

Ok If we need to make a change in power supply, For faarks sake not at the expense of Australian people.

[@johngeier8692]

We don’t need to change it as the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are mainly beneficial. Benefits include greening of the planet with increased agricultural yields, reduced winter heating costs, fewer deaths from hypothermia and postponement of the next glacial maximum. Net Zero is economically destructive delusional insanity. We need to stop this UN sponsored nonsense.

[@ausbare140]

I have solar and have not seen a $300.00 hand out. Is the hand out only for some?

[@sirstiffpilchard]

If wind and solar is so good then let's make our shipping all wind and solar - bring back all those sailing ships!

[@wyattfamily8997]

A new nuclear reactor was commissioned in Finland last month, and power prices to consumers DROPPED by 75%.

[@BarbaraHambleton]

Ain’t no free anything

[@lynettemahoney1710]

Wind and solar is cheap but cost a bloody fortune to build the infrastructure.Solar is expensive to build but cheaper,because the infrastructure will last 80 to 100 yrs. Not 30 like the wind turbines and solar panels

[@shaneburns4349]

If you want large industrial parks, then you need centralized big energy. If you offshore manufacturing, and become beholden to foreign states, then solar and wind is the way to go, and we lower our living standards.

[@MrMikeV00]

Nuclear can push a higher voltage and transmission is the most expensive part of any system FYI. Spot on Peta.

[@MrMikeV00]

Wouldn't selective truths be "misinformation"?

[@kathleencook3060]

'Different From", Not "Different to". Mr Bowen.

[@clydesimpson1462]

So let me get this straight Bowen: wind and solar are the cheapest form of energy. Then why has electricity increased 22.5% in the last two years under your watch.

[@tassied12]

Our power prices have been going up because our coal plants keep breaking down, not because of renewables The Australian Energy Regulator sets the benchmarks for consumer power prices. When they released the benchmarks for 2023/24 they gave the main reason for price rises as outages at coal plants over the last 2 years forcing expensive gas to be used to fill the gap. In the winter of 2022, up to 14 out of 47 coal generators were offline at once. Callide C still has a unit offline after a catastrophic explosion in May 2021 that caused blackouts in SE Qld and into NSW. It had another unit offline for months due to a cooling tower problem. All that is going to cost over $400 million to fix at the latest estimate Current wholesale prices are highest in the most fossil fuel dependent states (Qld and NSW). The AER also said that prices would have been even higher had not increased renewables output filled part of the gap left by failing coal plants

[@scubaaddict]

Then what happens when a hail storm takes out a solar farm, how long will it take to fix and replace the panels and what about spontaneous glass breakages of panels due to thermal fatigue. Having 100% renewable is a huge risk. We need a healthy mix, that is reliable and cost effective. There is too many politics and scaremongering and at the end the consumer and the economy suffers. Nuclear might be complex but Australia can do complex, Its the politicians and ALP that cant understand complex and by the looks of it simple maths too.🤣

[@user-fr5nm1yx8o]

we will go through this again when the turbines need replacing. Lets vote for the party that will bring back our land and industry and decent morals again

[@MrMikeV00]

You could almost be an engineer. Wow.

[@ralphmogridge8364]

Fossil Fuel Warriors fighting hard for their mining masters!!

[@johnwoodrow8769]

No, just people with an ounce of intelligence. Wind and solar MUST be firmed up with some technology. That MUST be either hydro, gas, coal, or nuclear (the idea that you can run an modern economy for possibly days on a battery is the stuff of idiots). So that is really what the debate is, what technology is necessary to firm up renewable. We are never going to build the dams, so that rules out hydro. The politics of the left rules out coal. So that just leaves gas and/or nuclear. These are the FACTS!

[@iewatson9277]

Cost it out on a per anum over a 50 year time period. Renewables would need replacing 3 times, whilew 4:31 w

[@bards7443]

Careful. Or this will be labelled "misinformation" hahahaha

[@olddog-fv2ox]

Japan is building new nuke generators inside four years

[@KenDyer-wl4lf]

Something the Colaition has not told the people of Australia. Nuclear power stations produce high-level radioactive waste. It is dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years - and so far, the world has failed to deliver a safe, permanent storage method. Is this a problem Australia really wants to take on? Perhaps Peta might like to address that issue.

[@johngeier8692]

As my physics professor said in 1976, you put nuclear waste back into the ground where it came from. You should reprocess it first as 239 Pu is good reactor fuel and good for nuclear weapons production.

[@KenDyer-wl4lf]

@@johngeier8692 And also as your physics professor should have admitted, the radioactive waste would have to be a very long way underground, which probably explains Finland's Onkalo project that has been built over 20 years to store nuclear waste hundreds of metres underground in solid rock. Cost that!

[@snowman1959]

Well if that’s the case why do we have. 449 nuclear power stations on the planet. it’s good enough every where else China will have 60. this year.

[@snowman1959]

Well if that’s the case why do we have. 449 nuclear power stations on the planet. it’s good enough every where else China will have 60. this year.

[@neilstammers8366]

Could build a lot of reactors for the same money being spent by them now

[@tassied12]

Just ONE new nuclear reactor construction start outside China last year and only TWO so far this year.(IAEA reactor database) Nuclear is going nowhere.

[@troy6882]

Little more truth you know a hundred mega watt gas turbine generator has no gearing or torque converter to cut emissions by 1/3 that total year gas amount just to start and incompetent to a industry to service got why you get nothing done and costs well your a endless cost your cut right...

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Wouldn't trust solar, We already have billionaire idiots wanting to spray atmosphere with fine particles to try block out some of those suns rays, Good luck.

[@vindenis9049]

Nobody explains the grifting, subsidies, cost of constructions, lifespan, plus cost benefit analysis. One Polly states renewables are cheap and nuclear expensive. Produce some figures to support your argument please

[@MrMikeV00]

How did the journos suddenly get so smart. I know always have been right. Dangerous breed.

[@janemelrose7208]

You’re taking about the ABC journalists and not the clowns on Fox?

[@MrMikeV00]

@janemelrose7208 I don't watch fox. Not for any particular reason. I find if I watch ABC and Sky, then I can observe a lot with a comfortable perspective.

[@AussieDJRemixes]

yeah well the sun hasn't been out for three days where I am, I'm sure people's solar isn't generating much power. There has been more cloud cover this winter than seeing the sun out, pretty useless with the sun behind the clouds most of the time.

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Don't worry, Mr Microsoft wants to help out even more by spaying atmosphere with particles to block out some of the suns rays, Expect your panels to produce even less if he gets his way.

[@DontFearAnything]

Thelightaustralia

[@batmanlives6456]

Wind and solar is cheap on the face of it …. But factor in the extras to make the renewables work and they are prohibitively expensive… Tell the truth Bowen …. Not just your selective narratives…..

[@johngeier8692]

He is delusional. You cannot reason with a lunatic.

[@clydesimpson1462]

There is no way in the world a wind turbine can be built and installed and connected to the grid for $600,000. The access road, footing and connection would be that much alone.

[@onlymelbourne2842]

maybe albo and blackout can turn farts into energy similar to Monster's Inc and blackout and albo would have the most 'wind'

[@troy6882]

Free power well once this is payed its free right ??????? Where paying it ????? For this con ?????? And class complaining about everything my my 🐑.

[@creditelectric]

Sky never would be selective with the truth of course.

[@paythepiper6283]

What lie was told, quotes please?

[@richardfox6595]

It's not true that non-renewables are cheap, look at your power bill.

[@johntomasini3916]

The Coalitions selective truths can match that. That's how politics works.

[@kane-vn6bn]

....yet its labor n greens doing so much damage to our present and future right now worst thing for Australia that's ever happened

[@johntomasini3916]

@@kane-vn6bn Please explain. How many years had the Coalition been in power and not solved these problems. Look to your own party for their excuses as to why things were not done. Btw, during the Dairy disputes in the eighties, where were our local Conservative politicians when it all hit the fan. At that time we were dealing with high water tables and salinity, it was through the Labor Government that we were able to put in mitigation controls to save our farms.

[@kane-vn6bn]

@@johntomasini3916 no need to explain... just look around at the current destruction of australia. coalition not much better but you have no cause to deflect, your mate albo and greens are a disaster. shame is what you should feel

[@tassied12]

Just ONE new reactor construction start outside China last year and only TWO so far this year. It's share of global power generation has fallen to half what it was 25 years ago and on a falling trend Nuclear is on a road to nowhere.

[@travstar5447]

Bullshit

[@tassied12]

​@@travstar5447 PRIS reactor database - look it up. The only new reactor construction start last year outside China was EL DABAA-3 in Egypt, being built by the Russians. The rest of the world - zip! At its peak in 1996, nuclear generated nearly 18% of global power. Its down to around 9% now (Statistical Review of World Energy)

[@tassied12]

@@travstar5447 PRIS reactor database. The only new reactor construction start last year outside China was EL DABAA-3 in Egypt, being built by the Russians. The rest of the world - zip!

[@travstar5447]

@@tassied12 Fourteen G20 countries operate nuclear power plants, two are considering adding the technology to their energy mix, and six joined the pledge to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 made at COP28 in Dubai. How many nuclear power plants are there in the UAE? Unit 1 of the country's first nuclear power plant was connected to the grid in August 2020, followed by unit 2 in September 2021, unit 3 in October 2022, and unit 4 in March 2024. More & more & more advanced Nations understand how supreme new generation Nuclear is. Facts

[@tassied12]

@@travstar5447 Triple not much is still not much. At COP28, 22 countries pledged to triple nuclear by 2050, while 122 pledged to triple renewables by 2030. IEA data shows that over the last decade global solar generation has grown ninefold to reach 1500 Terawatt-hour (TWh) per year while wind generation has tripled to 2300 TWh per year. In that time nuclear has barely moved. Solar's growth rate is 22%, enough to double capacity every 3 years. After giving nuclear a 50 year headstart, within 2 years wind and solar will each be generating more power globally than nuclear. In all but 2 of the G20 countries running nuclear, they generate less power from it than they did 10 years ago. Nuclear is going nowhere.

[@1JohnnyUTAH]

Not going after Dictator Dan Peta?? LoL Full of Sht these media Propaganda expert's.

[@rosriggs9728]

Can you not see... we had the cheapest form of power for individuals and business. and now look, its a dogs breakfast. So , no , I am not believing that we as a country need to be the flagship for net zero, no I do not believe that a country as big as Aus needs to ruin itself to show off and say... here look at us. we achieved the net zero but now we are broke. Broke in moral too. Countries who emit much much higher carbon emissions do not care. Why does Aus need to take up the cudgels.. Oh... of course, for a elbow photo op. Never mind that the country goes broke... pppfffttt. look at mee look at mee.. I managed net zero, and dont talk about the economy, it will come good someday. This elbow and blowen morons need to be kicked solidly.

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

abc isn't propaganda? open your eye's

[@alexdrake5048]

Just plain LIARS

[@trevorbyrne-pp6lc]

Please explain to me solar energy gives you cheap energy bill, what a load of bullshit. I installed a 9kwt solar system on my property seven yrs ago. I am retired and there us only me and my wife we have dedicated gas cooking. I have disconnected my off peak hot water system and had a timer installed on the system. We are still getting electricity bills in the hundreds, why. At the moment I recieve a 7 cent feed in tariff from my electricity supplier. SOLAR ENERGY SUPPLY SYSTEMS ARE NOT WORTH THE INITIAL INVESTMENT, The electricity company you are with is responsible for the feed in tariff you recieve the electricity regulator makes recommendation as to what the tariff should be. SOLAR ENERGY US A WASTE OF FUCKING TIME AND MONEY

[@clydesimpson1462]

22.5% increase in electricity since Labor got in. Just think how much your bill would be without solar.

[@St.Thomas-er9iu]

By then, you will be sweating inside of the hell... St.Thomas

[@frankcoates4609]

A useful liar

[@garryharrington8255]

LOVE YOU.. LOVE YOUR HAIR.. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME HAPPY.... COAL IS THE BEST POWER

[@nivid01]

Peta Credlin wake up to yourself, ‘renewable’ energy IS NOT CHEAP, that’s why our electricity bills are so high!