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Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says (reneweconomy.com.au)

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The head of the Australian energy market operator AEMO, Daniel Westerman, has rejected nuclear power as a way to replace Australia's ageing coal-fired power stations, arguing that it is too slow and too expensive. In addition, baseload power sources are not competitive in a grid dominated by wind and solar energy anyway.

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[–] ticho@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (20 children)

FWIW, Baltic countries are going hard for solar, see https://lemmy.world/post/17098210

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Everyone is or at least tries to portray they are. Your article could be written for almost any country in the world.

But that doesn't mean a country can be run on solar alone.

[–] ticho@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, the article definitely could not be written for any country in the world, because it lists concrete actions, numbers for past few years, and concrete plans for next few years.

But judging from your comments here and elsewhere in the thread, you do not care about discussion, and will move goalposts whenever it suits you. You are not a nice person. So, PLONK.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not true. You don't seem to know much about energy policies in EU.

But well... Bye

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