>CSIRO says by far the lowest cost way of producing electricity
You've just copied and pasted their opinion from their website.
Have you read and critiqued the actual report?
https://www.csiro.au/-/media/News-releases/2022/GenCost-2022/GenCost2021-22Final_20220708.pdfThey make a few assumptions, eg, they assume technology will progress at certain rates. They can't guarantee that.
So, they assume wind, solar, and storage will be developed which will lower the cost.. but when it comes to other technologies, they do not offer the same assumption
If you look at the report, they're talking about SMR's, not large scale reactors.
And, additionally! They do not consider the *lifespan* of these technologies.
If an SMR costs $7000 per KW in capital costs and lasts 45 years, thats cheaper than $2000 per kw every 10 years for a wind turbine, isnt it?
(And before you question this $7000 number, that's also from the CSIRO report, which you can find yourself).
Read the report. They're not really comparing apples with apples.
Additionally they talk *INSTALLED CAPACITY*. Do you understand the wind doesnt always blow?
"Per KW produced". You see?
>Official estimates by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) show that the cost of nuclear energy creation is $16,000 per kilowatt.
No... thats not their estimate, they have not done any research into this themselves. They even acknowledge they have no idea.
>In contrast, the costs of building and operating nuclear in Australia remain prohibitively high.
Regulation makes things expensive. And, you know, we don't *know the cost here*. We haven't seriously investigated it. Because, again "unpopular".
I'm not interested in "post regulation cost" I'm interested in directly comparing the cost.
Materials
labour
Not money. Materials. Labour.
>This is a ridiculous view as the current electricity grid needs to be updated - regardless of electricity source.
It "needed to be updated" in Germany too, what happened?
I ask you the same questions that made Acorn block me, and that you wouldn't answer before.
How many turbines and or solar panels will we need
How much will they cost (materials, labour)
How long will they last
