Australian energy sector - discussion paper

[GregLocock]

I've attached a report by Industry SuperFunds on the future of the energy sector in Australia. It basically recommends investing in nukes, wind and solar, in preference to pumped hydro, and not much in the way of batteries. I haven't been through it in detail yet.

I was led to it via the following article

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/in...n/news-story/f3faf4befb3d68cedc01c6735d467976

It caused the usual histrionics.


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Greg Locock


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[GregLocock]

Weird, that didn't work



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[ashtree]

Is it because The Australian sits behind a paywall?

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Ashtree
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[IDS]

Thanks Greg.

From a very quick glance at the introduction it seems to have a sensible and non-partisan approach, at least in principle.

What were the "usual histrionics"?

Doug Jenkins
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[rb1957]

a google for "industry superfunds nuclear power Australia" got the same (hidden) content and several commentaries (like from the ABC).

Whilst the abundance of Uranium might suggest that as a fuel, there's some thought about using Thorium which offers safer designs.

Hadn't heard of "Snowy 2.0" … building large scale hydro-power is considered desirable to a nuke ?? Australia … ah yes, well known for it's rain !

another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?

 

[IDS]

The Snowy2 proposal is for pumped storage, which is a much better fit with intermittent supplies than nuclear, especially when much of the infrastructure is already in place.



Doug Jenkins
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[GregLocock]

Snowy 2.0 is a rather expensive project, currently at $5B. It will provide 2000 MW, ie about one power station (I don't know how much water inflow there is), and 350 GWh (I think) of storage. Compared with Musk's battery that is expensive for power, but very cheap for storage.

The usual histrionics are from the various anti nuclear people who have successfully kept nuclear reactors out of Australia, alone in the OECD.

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