Accelerate the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy - to fight Anthropogenic Climate Change, page-35523

Lol.

The armchair expert chimes in . Sounding just like a politician that has never been on a large industrial site.

You clearly have never been involved in the maintenance of heavy plant . Particularly baseload power stations.

Using the example of 40 year old nuclear power stations today. They are all knackered . Completely knackered. Very similar to baseload coal stations of a similar age. That's why they are desperately patching them up to last a few more years while we transition to renewables . lf we'd started the transition 5-10 years ago better investment decisions could have been made.
Those power stations have been successfully maintained over that 40 years but just like an old car, there comes a time when it is just not worth fixing . Hence it needs a complete replacement . Not just repair and refurbishment like it saw in the past . So the claim that a nuclear plant will last 80 years is just nuclear industry bs.

Nuclear power stations haven't changed that much over 40 years . The safety has been improved massively and control systems are much better but at the end of the day they are still just making steam to spin a turbine . The entire guts of the power station will need to be replaced . Given the pace of technological change today, do you seriously think that 2024 technology will be relevant in 2064 let alone in 2104 ?

l see you are quoting the " lnstitute of Energy Research ". That's hilarious .

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) was founded in 1989 from a predecessor 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered by Charles G. Koch and Robert L. Bradley Jr. IER claims to conduct "intensive research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets," and argues that the free market provides "the most efficient and effective solutions to today's global energy and environmental challenges."^[1]

IER acts as a front group for the fossil fuel industry, receiving significant funding from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Peabody Energy, and various Koch charitable foundations. In return, IER advocates against fossil fuel industry regulation and policies reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research

" If Nuclear replaces coal + gas, that is ~60-80% of the mix in 2016-2022 according to the above graph."

Best you look at the 2024 graph and take particular notice of the long term trend .

Baseload coal is slowly going broke in 2024 as it tries to compete with cheaper renewables . How could much more expensive nuclear baseload hope to compete in a market that baseload coal can't ?

Just because Australia has uranium means nothing . The " shortage " of domestic gas that we are experiencing is living proof of that .

Your comment about the " South Australian battery " demonstrates how little you know about the industry and how you rely on old baseless fossil industry rhetoric.. l suggest you get your information from somewhere other than Sky after dark.

Don't bother replying old mate . You'll just embarrass yourself even more if you do .