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‘Coalition’s much-vaunted nuclear modelling was - despite Peter Dutton’s insistence it was “independent” analysis - created by a pro-nuclear think tank with a cosy relationship w. Nuclear for Australia, a lobby group with links to the Liberal Party.’ crikey.com.au/2025/05/02/pet…
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Wow. I posted this less that an hour ago and was inundated with responses from accounts created within the past two years and linked to @ShackelWill. Coordinated? I think so.
The pro-nuclear lobby is well funded and relationships to big $$ rather opaque. A
‘Coalition’s much-vaunted nuclear modelling was - despite Peter Dutton’s insistence it was “independent” analysis - created by a pro-nuclear think tank with a cosy relationship w. Nuclear for Australia, a lobby group with links to the Liberal Party.’ crikey.com.au/2025/05/02/pet…
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Nuclear power is shaping up as an election loser, and the Murdoch media is not happy reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-…
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Whatever happens on election day, it’s certain that the Coalition’s promotion of nuclear power will cost it votes. It will probably cost the Coalition seats and may cost them the #election reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-…
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Late yesterday the Liberals buried this in their costings. Make sure you send this on to everyone you know.
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Cost of electricity from renewable sources is £38 to £44 per MWh. Estimated cost of the same electricity from #nuclear (at the new Hinkley Point C reactor) in 2025 is £150 per MWh.
commonweal.scot/daily-briefi…
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No batteries, no flexibility: Spain could have avoided blackout with lessons learned in South #Australia
#auspol #auspol25
reneweconomy.com.au/no-batte…
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Mark Carney elected Canada’s prime minister ow.ly/1kZB1067hSL
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United Firefighters Union of Australia says Dutton’s nuclear power plan introduces a “new, more dangerous threat” that emergency services are not prepared for reneweconomy.com.au/fireys-p…
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Found him! 23 days. That’s how long @CharlotteGriev1 at The Age spent trying to track down and question Liberal candidate Zahid Safi.
Running for office without facing the public is standard Liberal political strategy apparently.
Has your local Liberal been in hiding? #auspol
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EDF #nuclear France try to manage significant cost and time over-runs at Hinkley C and ramping proposed costs at planned Sizewell C.
Not a good look ...
cityam.com/edfs-two-nuclear-…
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Australia’s battery moment is here, but not everyone knows where to start.
We’ve created a new guide to help renters and homeowners cut through the noise, understand their options, and get more from their solar and storage.
amber.com.au/blog/what-rente…
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A thread on flexible generation on Australia's NEM.
Historically, flexible gas & hydro generators have complemented less flexible coal, to ensure supply can meet demand.
In the future, flexible generation will be dominated by batteries & they'll be also used to firm PV & wind.
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@roobar99.bsky.social retweeted
This giant battery is powering up ⚡
T️he huge renewable energy project in Collie is almost complete, and it'll be able to store power for up to 800,000 homes.
That's what Labor’s doing: delivering clean, affordable energy to cut power bills now.
Peter Dutton wants to put a nuclear reactor here instead. It’d drive power prices up and take 20 years to build.
We're not waiting decades, we’re getting on with the job of providing cheap clean energy now.
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"he's revealed a fundamental fragility in the American economy, which is that if we elect a leader who brings forward an economic program of destruction, our political institutions are not strong enough to stop them."
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Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand)
Results:
Last week: 100% RE
Last 191 weeks: 98.7% RE (1/5)
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Let me explain how I can be both optimistic the rest of the world will avoid a global recession, but pessimistic about the United States. Betting markets reckon it's more likely than not that the U.S. will slip into recession this year.
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This is quite crazy.
According to former Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas Freeman (one of the rare senior US officials that I admire), the Trump administration couldn't even explain to the Japanese negotiating team what they were looking to achieve with the tariffs.
Here's what Freeman said: "The Japanese have just been in Washington. Their experience apparently was they went to talk to the American leadership on this matter, and the American leadership said 'what are you offering?' And the Japanese said 'well, what is it that you want?' And the Americans could not explain what they wanted."
Freeman also noted, correctly, that "the United States [broke] virtually every agreement it has agreed to in recent decades including the replacement for NAFTA with proposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico that was negotiated by Mr. Trump in his first term."
Which doesn't exactly encourage countries to make a deal with Trump: what's the point?
Which is why Freeman believes that China won't go for negotiations and has instead decided to "wait [America] out".
As he puts it: "What is [China's] incentive to negotiate with the US when the US has no stated objectives that make sense and no record of compliance with its own agreements? I think the Chinese have decided they will wait us out and see how Americans like Walmart and Amazon denuded of products."
Fundamentally and somewhat paradoxically, that's the thing Trump the self-anointed "dealmaker" obviously doesn't get: at the end of the day dealmaking is built on credibility and consistency, and America has now neither.