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.
I mean, it’s fair to compare the two techs but that’s different from suggesting that you need a single approach to generation. No one is seriously suggesting that only solar for generation is sensible
I’m not sure if this is your first conversation on the topic but the debate is almost entirely on renewables vs nuclear.
Did you notice yourself using the word “solar” in this conversation rather than “renewables”?
Yes. I used renewables. But I used solar before because that was specifically the conversation. What a funny and irrelevant question.
