The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

Not sure what to make out of the current debates around COP28, if I take anything out of this it is probably that the politics of reporting is dragging us all into the mire!

In summary the reporting seems to be;

- It's only green if it's my green, your green doesn't count.

- One solution fits all, my solution.

- It's everybody else's fault.

- No matter what is really happening around the globe, don't mention the "N" word.

Because the various green solutions are all cutting each other's throat trying to be the big player in the town, "N" is now back fairly and squarely in the plans from all the big economies. It will screw a country like us over, because we'll develop renewable technologies that need export scale sales to make ends meet, and there will be no major economy market left to sell them to!

If China, USA, Germany(EU), Japan and India go "N", it's pretty much the death knell for every local major green energy technology initiative I know of!

Too late...China have 21 new Nuke Power Stations underway or semi completed and India are second place with around eight.
China will more than likely have to build our Nuke plants if we ever went that way given we would need infrastructure upgrades as well as multiple plant builds unless overseas companies like Brookfield stump up the money along with Cannon-Brookes and the like. With more Greens, Teal's and minor parties likely entering Parliament its unlikely though we would see Nuclear in Australia in the near to medium future..however with increased migration and push to grow the population its going to put more pressure on energy resources and with Natural Gas on nose in some states I cant see how a already stressed power grid system will cope with the extra load and even with upgrades/fixes the prices will only go up and make life harder for most unless we get a Government who will bite the bullet with Nuclear and risk political demise.