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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What happens in case of a sudden abnormal weather event that blocks out most of the sunlight

The neighbor has sun then. Buy it there. Or store the power.

Always the same old platitudes.

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Australia doesn’t have neighbors…

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