After heavy criticism, Australia's leading science agency doubles down its findings that the cost of nuclear power for Australia would likely be double that of renewable energy, and it would take at least 15 years for a plant to be built.
It is a political strategy. It isn’t intended to solve our problems or the worlds problems. It solves problems for the coalition (getting the teal vote) and the fossil fuel industry (increases life of their assets by diverting investment and attention from more competitive alternatives). People will vote for it based on the feels and their echo chamber. It isn’t supposed to make hard headed intellectual sense. It is supposed to win votes and it probably will.
It is a political strategy. It isn’t intended to solve our problems or the worlds problems. It solves problems for the coalition (getting the teal vote) and the fossil fuel industry (increases life of their assets by diverting investment and attention from more competitive alternatives). People will vote for it based on the feels and their echo chamber. It isn’t supposed to make hard headed intellectual sense. It is supposed to win votes and it probably will.
Only way it works is if they use it to counter the “turning off solar at peak times” threat.