Yeah, yeah. I'm sure those will be built around the same time that the stupid nuclear submarines they're so proud about turn up: the 12th of never.
The RWNJs hate renewables so, so very much that they simply can't help indulging in these bizarre fantasies.
It's all about putting off the end of fossil fuels, at the end of the day. Nothing more than that.
Whoops! When even the legacy coal-powered electricity industry doesn't want to invest in nuclear over renewables - which they are eagerly investing in now, to be fair - you'd normally predict that the right-wingers would back down.
However, modern "conservatives" can't back down on anything. It's as impossible for them to admit that they're out of touch with reality as it is to admit that experts and facts exist.
And now, former Liberal Prime Minister - and not a little bit bitter from being knifed by his own party guy - Malcolm Turnbull gets a few punches in on his old mates:
He's right, to be fair, but never underestimate the capacity of a scorned politician to seek political vengeance on those who he believes did him wrong 🤷♂️
@DyDave And yet, this battle is still ongoing.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/06/05/alberta-rockies-coal-mine-court/
"Australian-owned Northback Holdings" 😠
I wish the ranchers luck, but my dad worked in the oil business in Calgary in the 60s, and he would occasionally joke about them having the best politicians money can buy out there...
@DyDave I'm not sure if you know much about Alberta and it's politics now, but it is a safe comparison to refer to them as a Texas/Florida hybrid. Yeah, it's a goddamn shit show. Most are Trump backers. Along with just about every other conservative politician in Canada. It's shameful.
Yeah, even though I moved out here 40-odd years ago, all my family is still in Canada, so I keep an eye on the goings-on there. Alberta Tories and guys like Doug Ford and Poilievre and their mates are shockingly awful. Sadly, just like our formerly centre-right, they've all swung right out there these days as the Overton window keeps shifting 🤷♂️.
@DyDave I have seen some reporting and discussion of the viability of the use of hot rocks (graphite) for thermal storage in conjunction with renewables to retrofit coal fired turbines for electricity production that look quite promising. For example,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSQ0i4b-5ug&t=564s
#ClimateChange
I think all innovation in this space is 👍.
The problem is that politicians secretly want to keep burning coal longer because both sides have created a problem for themselves by:
1. Pandering to the coal $$ lobby, and
2. Failing to do anything to help ordinary voters in coal areas transition
We have to move ASAP, and we can do it with existing tech if we want.
Check out South Australia on this chart: they decided to swap to renewables and just did it. Eastern states, not so much.
This is exactly the thing:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/19/coalition-austrailan-nuclear-power-plan-energy-sector-business-scepticism
The Liberal/National coalition had almost 10 years in government to do something - anything - about energy and mostly failed.
Business likes stability. It doesn't care about ideology as much as many people think; it cares far more about profit, and that comes from being able to plan for the future with fewer risks.
These half-wits never understand that constantly moving the goalposts to suit their donors/lobbyists is destabilising.