The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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The timing is the key.

90% of our coal powered power plants will be decommissioned by 2035 and there’s no way that we could have nuclear power stations operating by then, even if the obstacles to construction could be overcome.

It won't happen, it's an arbitrary target / assertion that is largely completely ignorant of the global supply chain for renewables and batteries, demand is already exceeding supply and in the short term global supply is actually falling. Due to war, politics and economic profiteering by governments. When the world needs a tenfold increase, it's getting less.

This global shortfall is the primary reason for a push for countries like Australia and the USA to further open up resource mining, which is ironically being opposed by many of the same groups that push renewables. The take a NIBMY position, wanting SolarPV and Wind, but only if the materials mining is NIMBY.

Some may even argue, the best way for tiny little trivially polluting Australia to assist global carbon reduction targets in to not need or restrict any of the critical resources itself.