Thread: Power prices, gas prices- ouch or Solar perhaps?

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Again.. you're looking at the tree.

I trust that there are people who are clever, and have thought about this. We are all paying these people to ensure grid stability now.

You'll remember I stated that they think that even if we stay with coal we will still have to undertake substantial grid stability work. I don't know if you know - but Australia's population growth has been nearly half a million people a year for the last few years. Not that anyone has asked anyone but here we are. Even if we stay on coal we're going to need to build some very expensive coal stations. Also, we now have a lot more things to power now.

Change is inevitable. There will be no one correct answer. Everything is going to be needed.

We need some big cheap generators that match the coal power stations output and stability that will last the next generation or two ... Given the way technology is moving, this gives a good buffer to wait for anything that will appear over the next 20years. solar and wind is stupidity for anything other than a small percentage of power. Who know, we might end up with modern small nuclear power plants...

what we are trying to do is an absolute failure across the entire world, so why do want to replicate horrendously expensive failure ??

I don't often go to this site, but it's excellent and I'm glad when I do.

So they had a bit of a background on my Centre for Independent Studies which I'd managed to determine was a disinformation pump. This article from 2024 mentions that they were actively set up to promote nuclear and attack renewables and grid stability.

So my noting that none of the people who work there had ever worked in the industry, or had any qualifications in it was spot on. They were employed to pump the plausible disinformation. So when our Policy Officer headpiece says she's "passionate about nuclear" .. I guess whatever you need to say to get the job. As plausible disinformation is her career - she's got nothing to loose by publishing this stuff. In fact it will probably help her in the future. I hope she can sleep at night as she ages.

Just a moment...

Like the IPA, the Centre for Independent Studies has strong links with the Coalition parties – promoting the works of Coalition MPs, and several of the group’s ‘alumni’ going on to serve as Liberal Party MPs or candidates.

The group recently launched a new campaign to promote nuclear energy and to actively attack the efforts of energy market regulators and institutions, including the Australian Energy Market Operator and the CSIRO, to plan the transition to renewables.