Mark Boscawen 💧🐀🌻🌎🌡🚴🏼‍♂️🤿🔊💉💉💉💉💉💉😷

Political Watcher, Lover of serious subwoofers & ‘70-80’s mellow rock, Netball tragic. Likes & retweets are generally, but not always, a show of support.

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@salubrious55 @SuDharmapala Racism is an action or belief which disadvantages or demeans people based on race or gives unfair advantage based on race.

The Voice isn’t racist because it’s doesn’t disadvantage or demean anyone based on their race.

Creating equity for a race isn’t giving unfair advantage.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Ummm, you do realise the original reactor has been decommissioned after a 50 year lifespan & a new OPAL reactor commenced operation in 2006, don't you?

So, whilst the site is still there, the original reactor isn't operating 'just fine'. Replacing it no different to replacing RE

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings If sufficient solar & batts are installed, it's possible to be completely off grid.

But yeah, blame the Govt because a big enough system wasn't installed in the first place.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Wait to you see the maintenance required at a nuclear power plant. Deep maintance cycles every decade & mid life refirb at 30 years.

At end of life only things that are original are the concrete foundations, the containment vessel & the building structure.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Then you won't see it if you don't pay a bill.

But to remove any doubt it's a thing:

https://t.co/K3Zu7PJmPB

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Power bills are going down in Aust by 100% between 11am-2pm due to solar.

Up to 24kWh a day of free electricity.

You'd never get that if the energy was produced by a nuclear power plant.

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@Zeuskemp @MikeCarlton01 Or put another way: Don't spread your cream where your bread & butter is at.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Globally, Nuclear's total generation has fallen to below 10% for over a decade.

Any sector growth from new N plants coming on-line is negated by decommissionings.

Whereas over the same period RE has grown by 140+% to be ~35% of global power generation.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Well Darrin, you may believe RE is a fantasy. But the AEMO Electrical Engineers are confident a RE system grid is viable & cheaper.

Even China, which is building N power plants, is currently installing >150 times more RE than N gen capability.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Sure the US has 92 operating standard reactors. And zero COTS SMRs

By the time a fleet of standard reactors could be operational in Aust, >70% of coal fired gens will have reached end of life

Only RE can be built in time to avoid blackouts. Once RE system built, N not needed.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings An ongoing real time simulation, extrapolating current solar & wind gen with Snowy 2.0 & batt storage, is proving 98.5% p.a. RE is viable. The shortfall met by gas peaking & demand mgt to minimise CapEx.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings SMRs have yet to reach Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) maturity. There is not one operational mass manufacturing facility anywhere in the world.

And you're assuming standard built to will be the safety standard Aust legislates.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Regardless of the quality & quantity of uranium, Aust will never have sufficient demand to make processing N fuel rods here economically viable.

Aukus subs don't require locally enriched fuel. Reactor is fuelled & sealed for life of the boat.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Nuclear isn't a viable option for Aust. Before a fleet of N power plants could be built & online, >70% of our CF gens will reach end of practical life

Result would be a decade of power shortages with rolling blackouts

Only RE can be installed quickly enough to replace coal
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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Which means you are describing variable load, which changes during the day & the time of year.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings All of which means, what some call Base Load is an artificially high construct which comes from a soon to be redundant generation technology.

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@canzyD01 @BenPennings Firmed RE can reduce output to match natural minimum overnight demand.

Non-time critical demand from appliances like hot water & EV charging can be timeshifted to periods of high RE output through reduced tariffs. Eg 3 hours free power between peak solar output of 11am-2pm.

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@NellShel @tim_blee So Pauline letting her version of perfect be the enemy of the good.

Baby, bathwater, out, is just having a tanty because couldn't get own amendment up.

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@isaacrrr7 Overall, support a Government that is committing genocide in Palistine & attacking civillian areas of Lebanon.

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@renew_economy The fact that gas generators in SA charged $20,300/MWh is proof they are extortionists & so don't deserve any social licence.