The entrepreneur claims agency exaggerated the costs of the Coalition plan despite it using best-case scenario South Korea as the benchmark
If CSIRO had used the cost of UK reactors such as Sizewell as its benchmark, the price of nuclear energy would have shown up much greater.If CSIRO had used the cost of UK reactors such as Sizewell as its benchmark, the price of nuclear energy would have shown up much greater.igh-profile entrepreneur Dick Smith entered the ongoing radioactive debate on nuclear energy this week, accusing government agencies of misleading ministers over the costs of reactors and the practicalities of renewables.
Aemo’s latest blueprint for the electricity system says: “This gas generation is a strategic reserve for power system reliability and security, so is not forecast to run frequently.”Smith claimed CSIRO had exaggerated the costs of nuclear “by looking at the worst-case scenarios everywhere” – but did it?
He said: “A fair reading of GenCost makes clear that CSIRO have been pretty careful, if not generous, to avoid any overestimation of nuclear capital costs.”After being hit by two cyclones and then plumes of sediment flowing out over near-shore corals after major floods in north Queensland, according to the Australian Institute of Marine Science , extreme levels of heat-driven bleaching covered for the first time all three regions of the reef this summer.
But three of those five sectors were actually surveyed well before this summer’s bleaching event began. “To determine mortality of corals associated with bleaching, surveys conducted in the weeks to months after the peak of heat stress are necessary to assess mortality from bleaching,” she said.Lloyd interviewed Dr Peter Ridd, a marine physicist who has long-claimed the reef is not facing a crisis and who has also signed a declaration that “CO2 is plant food” and that there is no climate emergency.
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