Nuclear energy is the “silver bullet to climate action”, says environmentalist and photographer Steven Nowakowski.
“The nuclear plants can go into the existing coal-fired power stations, those locations, so as they retire we can swap them out like for like and use the existing transmission infrastructure,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“With renewables, we need to overbuild the entire energy generation network.”
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Nuclear is the most dense form of energy (highest energy produced per weight and land space used) and despite the challenges is far more sustainable than so called renewables BUT the debate is NOT correctly framed because it remains stuck in an unscientific ideological inaccuracy (or lie) that CO2 has anything to do with climate change and global warming, all based on manipulated models that purposely exclude water vapour (AKA clouds) and the outright lie that 97% of scientists agree (the Cook et al study which excluded those who did not agree and misrepresented the rest). CO2 is a green gas NOT a greenhouse gas.
If Labor and Green scum were truly after zero-emission, mega-baseload power for business and Big Australia, they would embrace Nuclear. But it's not about that, it's about raping the taxpayer, ruining small business and giving that money to their evil masters who benefit from all this fake renewable lie. Simple.
One of the biggest problem with wind, it how it will affect the planets rotation. In physics we like to operate in a vacuum, or on ice, because we refuse to accept things like resistance. The gas layer if affected by the sun and by the spin of the earth, when you lock down these highly resistant machines, that energy has to come from somewhere. In Phyics we sort of relate it to the N, or Normal force. Equilibrium might take some years but its not as simple as throwing these down, over hundreds of years they could cause excessive damage. Look at the moon its literally tidal locked and then you get into the economics of it all, wind and solar isn't just a bad investment, its fueling the Chinese superpowers energy sector, while Russian oil and gas is isolated and flooding into China cheap as chips and Israel is putting a target on the USA for a conflict. There is a war on oil and gas, because that is what has made superpowers and with Solar/Wind China will be the only global super power and give in 30 years, countries will collapse with massive blackouts becoming 3rd world countries, heavily indebted to China.
Net zero with solar and wind farms only and this will be happening in Australia with no nuclear BS!
War on carbon needs to stop
Wind turbines are so ugly and unreliable
To keep up with a growing population and replacing old solar and wind turbines (that leach toxins into the soil when buried) they’ll be building these things forever.
All this infrastructure has to be replaced in 20-30 years. Who is going to dig up the massive steel and concrete foundations that MUST be replaced if a new turbine is to be put into place. Where will all the carbon fibre junk be dumped. By the time all is recycling, restoration of the environment and so on, all the investors and the politicians who have cause this all have moved on into the sunset with the electricity consumer left to pay for the mess that has been left at that time.
With these wind turbines it is not all plain sailing either because these gear boxes used in the nacelle needs constant maintenance and many break down prematurely because of the high stress. This is going to be an ecological disaster, not environmental but ecological.
Well done Steven 👌
Windfarms are hideous both visually & environmentally. Their impact on flora & fauna is shameful.
The Greens/Labor/Teals are happy to destroy our beautiful Queensland mountain rainforests in the name of net zero. These politicians are environmental vandals, and they need to be called out LOUDLY.
Stop this bull shit wind farm we need nuclear that is the answer
Albo & Bowens & the greens , fans mirrors & batteries that spontaneously combust , the ncms federal Gov's taxpayers subsidised Ponzi scheme that's just a nightmare and a utter failure waiting to happen as it rolls out .
Literally everything about nuclear is better than "renewables".
They're still telling us nuclear will be too expensive, yet we had one single wind turbine catch fire locally, and the damage bill was $2.2 million. So $2.2 million x 15,000 turbines, equals $36 billion. And they last how long? Add to those, the thousands (or is it millions?) of acres of solar farms, they wouldn't be pocket change.
Hurray, an honest climate scientist 🎉
Where are all the politicians who base their life & politics on a premise that they care for the environment & ecology of the nation. There was once! This group with Bob Brown as their leader. It looked like they were true believers, but no,they have sold their soul to a lying Labor party.. The Tasmanian Greens I believe. An remember those contagious individuals who would put their body between a bulldozer and an old growth tree. supporting the erection of these wind factories in the midst of a perfect, no
nature given sustainably assured countryside. Worse still, when they stop working no one will take the responsibility to restore the site to it's pre green zealot destruction. If it was a hole in the ground mine all the rejuvenation requirements would be guaranteed. And it's not like those requirements are not well documented, just not read and understood by .😢 NoBaseLoad Bowen
Anyone who favours turbines that need trembling for capacity. Plate output. Then doubled up for electrification and then some So 17 becomes 51 thousand then that becomes 100,000. Plus others foe continued electrification. All that could be replaced by less than 30 nuclear power station . The 100,000 needs backup that will cost trillions in batteries where nuclear is self contained and constant for 80 years where the renewables has tobe replaced every 10 years for batteries and 20 years for turbines.
don't build it because of the climate cult , built it because we need it !
Been following this man for a while now, he should be watched more often
You mean they get fast tracked by WEF acolytes ?
waych how quickly the goverment is going to shut this guy down
dont dordle….get it started !
No need for climate action.
The IAEA reactor database shows just ONE new reactor construction start last year outside China and just TWO so far this year.
At the moment there are 59 reactors under construction around the world with a total capacity of just 60GW. Some of those started construction over a decade ago. That's not even enough to keep up with the IAEA's projected retirements over the next 10 years.
Nuclear is no silver bullet. It is going nowhere
An absolute eyesore and just 4 wind turbines together is very noisy…..like a jet plane taking off !
Nuclear energy is a delaying tactic.
We need to slow global warming now. We can't afford to wait another 10 years.
Are they surveying bird kills? I doubt it! The Greens aren’t at all concerned about the damage caused by renewables. 🤬
This Bowen is a total joke who going to clean the mess up our will just let them fall down and leave them there
All you descenting souls, that peddle your BS, about Nuclear, are so far off the beam, China has many successful stations, that you conveniently fail to mention. And Europe is well advanced in the field, you make yourselves look stupid, putting your faith in the Renewables Scam
If this subject of climate change is so important for the planet's future, Put it to a national referendum then, But no they put the voice out to one instead, Idiots running the country.
On 17 Jul 2024, the Czech government announced that KNHP had submitted the winning bid to build at least two, and possibly four 1,000 MWₑ reactor units, which set the cost per APR-1000 reactor unit at $8.6 billion. Sadly for nuclear advocates, that figure is in $US. Converted to $AU, it’s 12.8 billion, around 50 per cent more than the CSIRO/AEMO's 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 estimate. The LCOE, even on the most favorable assumptions, will exceed $225/MWh.
Czechia is offering a brownfield site, at no additional cost. The new plants will replace existing Soviet-era reactors at Dukovany. By contrast, under Dutton’s nuclear proposal, the costs of any nuclear plants in Australia would need to include the compulsory acquisition of existing sites, from mostly unwilling vendors.
The Czechia nuclear project cost (US$8.6 billion/GWₑ) and duration (tender process started 2020 though to target date for electricity generation in 2038 – that's 18-years) are so far estimates/expectations, yet to be demonstrated.
Meanwhile, there are multiple examples over the last 2 decades actually demonstrating higher LCOEs, like the USA's VOGTLE-3 & -4 units, per 𝘓𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘓𝘊𝘖𝘌+ 𝘷17, for a total capital cost of ~$31.5 billion, capacity factor of ~97%, operating life of 60 – 80 years, at 𝗨𝗦$𝟭𝟵𝟬/𝗠𝗪𝗵 ≈ 𝗔𝗨$𝟮𝟴𝟭/𝗠𝗪𝗵.
VOGTLE-3 has demonstrated it took around 17 years to get up-and-running (from Southern Nuclear's formal application for an Early Site Permit in Aug 2006 to full commercial operations on 31 Jul 2023), and yet to be fully operational VOGTLE-4 will have taken around 18 years.
Then there's some APR-1400 examples:
* UAE’s BARAKAH-1, -2, -3 & -4 units; with 1,337-1,310 MWₑ net capacity each; and took more than 15-years to get BARAKAH-1 up-and-running & more than 18-years to get BARAKAH-4 (yet to be) fully operational.
* Project cost for the Barakah four reactor project including finance is estimated at US$34billion (circa AU$51 billion).
Even under the favorable conditions of a brownfield site and an established nuclear industry, new nuclear power is hopelessly uneconomic and far too slow to get-up-and-running.
Is it any wonder the Coalition won't reveal:
1) How many reactors are proposed?
2) What generating capacities these proposed reactors have?
3) What the total cost of the proposal is?
3) What the cost of electricity will be under the proposal?
Ofcourse nuclear is the most clean, efficient source of energy
Easier just to go nuclear and we should have been thinking about this decades ago, if we are that desperate to reduce emissions.
Common sense= do the math!! Not gonna stop eating beef
Nuclear power in 15years people won't power in 2023 4 .
It used to be dud rud now it's dud Dutton.
Word up Aussies!