Nick Ward

Engineer, Linux user, bike rider and futsal player.

[Tanya Plibersek @tanya_plibersek]

With Labor, renewables are at record highs. Unlike Dutton’s plan, we’re reducing pollution NOW and transforming Australia into a renewable energy superpower.

[💧simon holmes à court 🦋 @simonahac]

an hour ago, france connected its first nuclear reactor to the grid this century.

construction was to take 56 months.

timeline:
• decision: 2004
• initial works: 2006
• reactor concrete: 2007
• grid connection: 2024
• commercial operation: 2025Q1

…20+ years end to end.

[Squizz @SquizzSTK]

The media tries to convey that the public will get confused by experts on nuclear reactors.

Albanese says the LNP's expert is Dutton who tried to hide from the media and was "hoping it would disappear - what's disappeared is the Coalition's credibility"

#auspol

[Tanya Plibersek @tanya_plibersek]

We’re turning Australia into a renewable energy superpower.

[Nick Ward @nixwardy]

Tesla says one million EVs would barely make dent on Australian grid, and mostly soak up excess solar https://t.co/xD3xH9cDJf

[Rewiring Australia @RewiringAus]

CSIRO confirms today that building a nuclear power station would cost twice as much as renewables. And we already know nuclear couldn't be built fast enough to bring people's bills down. https://t.co/t7NBHx09ca

[Squizz @SquizzSTK]

"how do you respond to Peter Dutton's claim ... ?"

Jim Chalmers "It wasn't modelling - it was a meltdown. It was a proper nuclear meltdown from Dutton"

#auspol

[stranger @strangerous10]

PM Albanese rips into Peter Dutton for making “no mention about the impact on consumers” in his latest Nuclear announcement saying it “does not stack up” & he’ll “listen to the CSIRO” over Dutton who “wants to stop investment in Renewables as part of his ongoing culture war”🔥

[☮️💧 Sleeping Giants Oz 📣 @slpng_giants_oz]

Standard practice from Peter Dutton and the Liberals

The party website quotes Alan Finkle completely out of context on more than one occasion in relation to the introduction of nuclear power generation

BUT IGNORES his warnings on following the nuclear path.

#Auspol

[MattGolding Cartoons @GoldingCartoons]

The Coalition lists their nuclear policy plan in the Trading Post
@theage

[GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo]

Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest. PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs. #Debate2024

[Jason Clare MP @JasonClareMP]

Peter Dutton's nuclear fantasy is the biggest hoax since Milli Vanilli.

Nuclear reactors will cost a bomb, take too long and jack up your power prices.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Nuclear headlines in the Murdoch press - better get used to it!

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The Coalition’s nuclear plan would limit our energy production and stop Australians putting more solar on our roofs. It allows for 40% *less* electricity by 2050 - so no AI, no crypto, no EV for you!

It would cost our economy. It would cost our climate. It would cost us all.

[Nick Ward @nixwardy]

"Currently, rooftop solar in Australia is generating energy at just five cents per kilowatt hour, compared to new nuclear power in the United States, which costs 20 cents per kilowatt hour before even reaching the grid." https://t.co/vF0COysndh via @Australian Manufacturing

[Nick Ward @nixwardy]

"Industry needs energy to be very cheap, something that nuclear is not" https://t.co/vF0COysndh via @Australian Manufacturing

[Australian Manufacturing @AustralianM]

Rooftop solar and distributed energy are set to provide the most cost-effective energy for Australians, while nuclear power remains too costly and slow, says Dr Saul Griffith, founder of Rewiring Australia. #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #Australia

https://t.co/gywET19BP0

[💧simon holmes à court 🦋 @simonahac]

👇 by 2040, QLD would need to shut off 45,000 solar systems on an average day to allow just one nuclear power station to run.

that's because nuclear power has limited flexibility — economic and technical — making it unsuitable for our grid.

https://t.co/XTPkQYZDvo

[Nick Ward @nixwardy]

Global oil giant starts work on huge Australian solar and battery projects, takes swipe at nuclear https://t.co/e03n2YqCjw via @renew_economy

[Nick Ward @nixwardy]

@JackK Access to bard from Google speakers and display devices.