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Yes, major hurdle is the high capital cost in the western world. Hinkley Point C has blown out because of design changes during the build and covid. The UK are still planning another EPR though. (Sizewell C) France is looking at building another 6(EPR's again.) Snowy 2.0 has blown out from 4$B to probably $20B by the end of the build so this isn't just a NP thing. Decommissioning reactors will be easier with the newer build as more thought ill be put into it in the design phase. Sellafield and Hanford get a fair bit of press, but we need to remember these reactors were built for primarily for plutonium production at the start of the atom bomb race and were built quickly with only 1 thing in mind.. Finland have a deep repository due for opening this year. The spent fuel sitting at npp's is harming no-one and getting less radioactive every year. 300 or 500 years(depends on where you get your info from) the real nasty stuff will have decayed away. The rest is potential more fuel for fast reactors. Russia also have there BN series reactors that use lead for a coolant. India have recently fired up a 500MWe Big first of a kind) fast reactor to eventually use thorium but the same sort of reactor can turn the uranium 238 and plutonium's into fissionable fuel. We need to also think that the older reactors where designed in the 1950's with the first large ones in the late 50's. less than 20 years after the Chicago pile first fissioned.(1942)This is like flying around in a Vickers Vimy. We will get a workforce as more get built. A few companys are looking at building micro reactors to replace diesel generators at remote sights. This sound good in practice but again the capital cost will be expensive because the are planning to put 10-20 years worth of fuel in them at the start. These will probably use Haleu fuel which is enriched between 5-20%. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-criticality-for-indian-fast-breeder-reactor

they add a cent? per kWh to take care of decommissioning costs. They also make a lot of money exporting energy to country's who have spent billions on intermittent. Germany has 170GW of installed intermittent generation for a 60GW (72GW max 2025) grid and are still building. They also reprocess some of their spent fuel. If the spent fuel is buried in the proper way, i would not have a problem. Spent fuel is a public perception and political problem, not an engineering one. There is more chance of getting hit by a truck than injured from spent fuel. These costs seem large but NP can make a lot of energy. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germanys-renewable-electricity-generation-capacity-rises-11-driven-solar

Couple of my nieces have 1/16th aboriginal in them. They went to university and now we have some interesting family discussions. Their mother says they embarrass her quite regularly. They do the big talk but they wouldn't last long going back to their aboriginal roots. Makes me laugh, they are 1/4 English as well.

Pretty basic really. Green is good black/brown is bad. Yellow mediocre. Close to 17 at the moment. Even exporting 1.8GW into Spain which doesn't happen much. Make your own minds up. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/72h/hourly -

Good thing, shows who is doing the best at CO2 emmisions.

France exporting approx. 18GW of very low carbon electricity at the moment

We all have our moments! Unfortunately with social media you can't get away with anything.

Ol' Barnaby works pretty hard on stopping other stupid politicians allowing stuff in that can wreck our bio security.

Why pick Pauline out, they are all puppets and none really have any talent except for bull****. Sick of career politicians. at least she has had a real job. Gave you an example of shallow Albo is with his carrying on about the fuel reserve in 2020?. and no doing anything about it when he came to power. all muppets.

I see this making it expensive for large users who unfortunately are the employers of people. the hatched lines are the constraints for the last couple of days and I have seen it worse. By the time we add enough generation to cover the bad times, the good times are going to have a lot of oversupply. Are the generators going to just accept this or make their energy more expensive. Also shows how much smore storage we need. (SA grid)

Yep, I am a part of the problem. I could take the ethical stand and disconnect but it saves me money. I am a hypocrite!

Been watching the price closely in SA since 2010.(was working for a windfarm) Limited intermittents on the grid back then. Price use to be between $45 and $65 every day all day. As the penetration of intermittents increased so did the volitility. Its parasitic because it eats at the stability of the grid that base load generation can provide. Has not always been volitile as above Because I can save money at the time and still do. My next door neibour who hasn't got panels and my kids unfortunately.

use to be regularly. Know happens most day. Bit like the price, Use to variable, know it is volatile. No wonder it is so expensive with all the parasitic intermittent gen. No one knows whats happening next day.

no such thing as free electricity, just grid mis management

I have the early contracts, put in as much as I like at 50c/kWh

Yes, but someone pays it. the retailer adds more to someone elses bid. people that can least afford it. The retailers are going to be out of pocket.

try amber.com.au

They do charge it but if you make enough of the power you put in the grid you don't pay it, it gets absorbed in your energy payment, but someone pays it!

What I am saying is that some people (me included) still have their grid connection and end up getting a cheque a couple of times a year. I don't pay for my grid connection. My energy company does and I am pretty sure they would pass the cost onto others. e.g industry, those that rent and have no solar and people living in apartments and people that can't afford to buy a house. (I have kids in the last category) This energy system is expensive for those that can least afford it. These are politicians constituents who they are suppose to look after, not make life hard for those that can least afford for a policy(ideaology) that is going to make no difference to the problem it is supposed to fix until the big players catch up.

Meant to say inverters don't contribute to the stability of the grid. if people manage their battery systems properly they won't have and electricity bills so aren't contributing to the construction and maintenance costs of the grid. You are right about the progression of cars. Electricty has seen a similar path. More people are getting access to it and up and to recently it the generation was getting more energy dense and more controllable, now we are heading back 200 years when work was done with windmills whenever the wind happened to blow. Base load is only dead because of parasitic intermittent generation which is causing us to have to use traditional base load generators as peakers. I am not anti intermittent generation but trying to run a whole grid on it in an industrilised country is expensive and probably wont work. Germany has a 160GW of installed wind and solar and are still importing from France and Sweden. How much of an overbuild do you need. Germanys max demand goes somewhere between 40 and 60 GW. France is exporting 15GW into into countrys all around it at the moment. Writing and punctuation isn't my strong suit, but I can lift heavy things though(use to be able to.)

I should have specified intermittents. Hydro is pretty well base load if managed well. Has good heavy stuff turning with synchronous generators. As I understand some pumped hydro uses inverters so they get the varispeed/load for pumping operations. need to be confirmed. Offshore wind is very expensive, still is intermittent. Contribute to the grid by supplying power to it but don't really contribute to the cost of it if you export enough to cover off what you draw. Someone has to pay for it and unfortunately that will be people who can't afford it, renters and industry. The grid is getting larger as well that needs to built and maintained by these people. Inverters don't contribute to the grid. See Spain april 2025. from what I understand was caused by solar inverters playing up at a solar farm. I know you won't believe me! Will try to find some links. grid scale grid forming inverters haven't really been tested. They are installed at Broken Hill but weren't commissioned at the time of their blackout. Would have been a real good test since their GT's hadn't been maintained and were unreliable. They may have been able to run the town on solar and batterys.

Yep all good for domestic, thinking about getting a battery myself. The problem is we are taking people off to fund the grid. This will be industry and people that can't afford the solar and batterys or afford the house to put them on. We need to look at the bigger picture as we can't do without a grid.. Yes I am being hypercritical with a battery purchase.

Not being negative, just being realistic. Australia is/has become a quarry and I am concerned for my kids and grandkids future. Recently did a course with some workers from Bell Bay. All were in their early 20's, I wander how they are feeling! Build a new plant. We need some industry. Exporting our carbon emissions overseas is not good for Australia prosperity or the worlds carbons emmisions anyway. Far better to do some value adding here economically or environmentally even if it does mean keeping our coal for longer. Even if intermittents are going to work, we aren't ready for them and jumping the gun is costing us.

Australian industry is moving overseas! Bell bay smelter is closing down by the looks of it.Solar is high cost when you look past the generating electricity part.

Specifically talking Australia. Yep, remember when that report came out. Pumped hydro also has a round trip efficiency of about 80% which is pretty good.