Power Vacuum: Australia’s Energy Crisis Screaming Out for Nuclear Option

Crippled by its suicidal obsession with wind and solar, Australia is screaming out for politicians with the wit and temerity to push the nuclear option. Power prices will continue to rocket, and the routine load shedding and blackouts suffered in SA will eventually burst across the border, plunging Victorians, among others, into Stone Age gloom. … Continue reading Power Vacuum: Australia’s Energy Crisis Screaming Out for Nuclear Option

Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer

  How to squander ₤4 billion of other peoples’ money. **** If policy is driven by petulant, infantile ideology, instead of cool-headed economics, the result is, without exception, an unmitigated disaster. Here's a nice little wrap-up based on the latter policy approach, that unpicks the falsehoods of the former. (Guaranteed) power to the people Scientific … Continue reading Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer

South Australia’s Wind Farm Fiasco Heralds a Nuclear Powered Future

**** Earlier in the week, we detailed how South Australia’s wind farm fiasco has left its taxpayers on the hook for tens of $millions in subsidies, to be directed to the French owner of a mothballed Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant at Pelican Point, on the Lefevre Peninsula north-west of Adelaide. Not that its … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Farm Fiasco Heralds a Nuclear Powered Future