Dumb question, have you read the CSIRO report on fracking? Especially the one on the Condamine river - when it first starting hitting headlines and the EPA weren’t doing anything, I started looking for science as opposed to farmers opinions - I think everyone should look towards the science personally.
Disagree with the first part. Agree with the outcome though. We should have done nuclear like 40 years ago. Right now any nuclear we might build will purely be to manage load, not to generate the bulk of it. Renewables have overtaken it in terms of roll out speed and we will likely get better at storage before we even produce the first MW of a new promise to build nuclear.
'It's what's happening under ground that you don't see that's the problem but I've also worked in the past on the exploration side of things and there was a scenario when the gas blew a capping off from a drill hole and gassed some of the farmers cattle. Most of those farmers will pull their pants down in hope that some large mining giant will buy or lease access land from them.
Hold on didn't you have a go at me for supporting nuclear?
Most of the jobs to build mining plants are short term but an electrician I know, worked on the LNG plant in North Qld and they waited on a job for 2 weeks to buy bolt washers from the US for cable trays while the local companies all stocked up thinking they were going to get sales.
Nope, but I don't think it addresses my issue wih nuclear. I have no qualms about nuclear waste or risk etc. My issue is that Australia is special. If it takes us more than 10 years to not even hit 80% coverage in a massively watered down version, then yeah we are not going to get nuclear from policy to megawatts in 30 years.
Not aimed at me, but I rekon its a respectable trait that people are able to chop and change opinions on issues in a discussion. Unless it's about loose ball bearing hubs - they are just shit.
This is the bit that always gets me. Most of the eyeballs as on an easy problem - stationary energy. And even then we can't make progress quick enough. We haven't even touched on the other bigger pieces of the emissions pie. Yep we are stuffed - 2 degree scenario. my bet is in 15 years we will stop talking climate change mitigation and be squarely in the adaptation conversation.
Or geo engineering + nuclear plants hooked up to carbon scrubbers.
Dunno. What day is it today?
It's less than a minute long!!!
Sweet. And many countries can't even participate as they have no adaptation options!
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