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Office of Nuclear Energy
5 Ways the U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry Is Evolving in 2024
September 30, 2024
Nuclear Complements Renewable Energy Sources
“Finally, another key takeaway from the report is that building nuclear power plants along with renewables and storage is actually a cheaper way to decarbonize the grid than just nuclear or renewables alone.
Nuclear energy can provide clean electricity during the most expensive hours when wind and solar are unavailable and also reduces the amount of generation capacity, storage, and transmission needed to ensure grid reliability.
A diverse mix of clean firm generation, variable renewables, and energy storage creates the most cost-effective system.
Across multiple power system models, pairing renewables and storage with nuclear energy could lead to a ~37% reduction in generation and transmission system costs.”
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-ways-us-nuclear-energy-industry-evolving-2024
This really is BIG and Dutton should run with it especially knowing that we have AUKUS (if it actually does happen) and the Lucas Heights Nuclear Reactor.
Albo and Blackout Bowen and the entire LayBore Party are Luddites.
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More climate “science”.
They ship 19,000 tonnes of wood chips from Canada and dump them into Icelandic waters for “carbon capture”.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/nova-scotia-wood-chips-dumped-into-iceland-coastal-waters-and-called-carbon-capture/
Nova Scotia wood chips dumped into Iceland coastal waters and called ‘carbon capture’
by Joan Baxter
June 27, 2024
SEE LINK FOR REST.
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DM – good spot!
Looks like the guy has scammed various folk – including the good souls from Microsoft.
Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind.
Whilst it is possible Marty Odlin [for it is he!] has not enriched himself, I doubt if that’s where the smart money has gone.
Just remember P.T. Barnum’s wise words – “There’s one born every minute!”
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Sorry – intended as a supplement to #1 – Johnny Rotten.
“A diverse mix of clean firm generation, variable renewables, and energy storage creates the most cost-effective system.”
Hmmm.
Clean firm generation, alone, would be cheaper – no need for endless rows of pylons from where [it is hoped] the wind blows to where the juice is needed, for a start.
And, also, no Chinese-made – although obviously utterly secure – bat-busters or slaver-panels.
And batteries at half a billion per Gigawatt-hour … ??
Really??
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I tend to agree but now that the Wind Towers and Solar Panels are already here then let’s use them in conjunction with Nuclear Energy.
Australia should dig up all the Coal that it can and export it. The country needs the export income to pay for all the other stuff. Same for Gas except that enough Gas should be set aside for Domestic use. WA already does this. It works.
With Australia getting back to cheaper electricity, the Country can get Manufacturing back and start processing those raw materials and adding value. Processing Rare Earths should be a “No Brainer” really. Hey, the Country could even enrich the Yellow Cake and add value.
The potential money spinners are there for the taking IMHO.
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“I tend to agree but now that the Wind Towers and Solar Panels are already here then let’s use them in conjunction with Nuclear Energy.”
Okay – those that exist and are connected – even if not reliable.
As you know, even in the absence of heavy hail, their lifespan is limited – might TPTB recognise that?
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The looming disaster in Australia’s mobile phone system.
The regulators and the telcos have no clue what they are doing, they don’t even understand the technology they are trying to regulate or use.
There must be some DEI there somewhere.
This is very important and little known.
Please watch the video. (14.5 mins)
https://youtu.be/RPlTz-3estM
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Video:
The Left’s war against female beauty, as explained by Matt Walsh.
https://youtu.be/1VP7bt0p2KY
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I prefer Joe Walsh:
https://youtu.be/BciS5krYL80
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A better, live version:
https://youtu.be/09839DpTctU
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On the subject of the Left’s war against beauty, in all its forms:
Why is modern art so bad?
https://youtu.be/lNI07egoefc
Why modern architecture sucks.
https://youtu.be/GapUEKYLE1o
And notice how Leftists destroy classical art such as in galleries or statues?
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Really good article by Matt Ridley in Spiked:
There is now very little doubt that Covid leaked from a lab
“What was the worst industrial accident in history? Bhopal in India, where in 1984, at least 25,000 people died as a result of a leak of methyl isocyanate from a pesticide plant? No, if – as most people who have examined the evidence now believe – the Covid pandemic began as a result of a laboratory leak, then what happened in Wuhan, China was worse than a thousand Bhopals. It killed around 28million people – and was by far the most lethal industrial or scientific accident that has ever occurred.
Yet the silence of members of the scientific establishment about even the possibility of a laboratory leak in Wuhan is deafening. They refuse to debate it – quite literally. The World Health Organisation studiously avoids talking about it. I tried to get the Royal Society to organise a debate: it’s not a suitable topic for discussion, it replied. I tried the Academy of Medical Sciences, of which I am a fellow: too controversial, it said. A former president of the Royal Society told me he hopes we never find out what happened, lest it annoy the Chinese. Would he have said the same about Bhopal, I wondered, or a plane crash?
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Grid scale battery fires loom large
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/10/01/grid-scale-battery-fires-loom-large/
The beginning: “America faces a growing threat from grid scale lithium battery fires. Construction of huge battery arrays with no concern for potentially catastrophic fires is out of control. There are no established standards to follow and local permitting authorities seem oblivious to this very real danger. What follows is a brief introduction to the issue. To begin with look at this photo of an existing grid battery array called Desert Sunlight:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_Sunlight_(52290008686).jpg#
The batteries are teamed with a big solar facility because until recently that was the only way to get the battery subsidies. Each lithium battery unit is the size of a tractor trailer or big shipping container and there are well over a hundred of them, with a rated storage capacity of 230 MW. This is a medium sized storage facility. That these units can spontaneously burst into flames is well established. The question is how to design and prepare for this destructive event?
To scale the problem consider the following event. A battery powered tractor trailer rig recently crashed and it’s battery burned on an interstate in California. Lithium battery fires cannot be put out so this one burned for around eleven hours. In order to keep the fire from spreading to create a wildfire the fire crew continuously sprayed it using a reported 50,000 gallons of water in the process. The interstate was closed due to the toxic fumes from the fire. One of these grid scale battery units is easily 10 to 20 times the size of that truck battery. If the water usage required to keep a grid battery fire from spreading scales with size that is 500,000 to a million gallons of water. The actual amount is an engineering calculation that needs to be established and incorporated into battery facility design standards.
Note that we are not talking about the fire spreading to create a wildfire although that is certainly a concern. The vital need is to keep it from igniting the nearby batteries. If this happened the whole facility could go up with a hundred or more giant batteries burning. That would be truly catastrophic. So now look at the Desert Sunlight photo and note there is no water tank. There should be something like a million gallon water tank with a high volume system to deliver that water to every unit in the facility. Clearly there is not.”
Lots more in the article including a glaring example of ducking the issue at Horse Heaven renewables in Washington State with a proposed 300 MW battery facility..
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Desert Sunlight link works if you copy it. Would not paste properly.
Trying again with brackets.
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