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She's no longer the boss, she finished in March but, yeah, it seems outside of Laura Tingle the ABC is all about platforming "the opposition". It seems to me that whilst the LNP are correctly referred to as the opposition on the ABC the government are referred to as "Labor".
That might be because the new boss, Kim Williams is and ex-News Ltd CEO.
Bronwyn Bishop copped a fair bit of flack for her $5K helicopter ride to Geelong. Jebus, how was that 9 years ago already? That feels like it happened right before the last election?!
Yes, the media landscape was a bit better then and Bishop did a good job of making herself look entitled and unlikable. So far, according to my news search on Google, the only sites reporting Dutton's flagrant abuse of us, the tax payers are Guardian Australia, Pedestrian TV and Crikey.
www.theguardian.com
Holy goddamn shit this is getting stupider and stupider.
Coalition to impose ‘cap’ on renewable energy investment, Nationals leader says
David Littleproud claims Australia doesn’t need ‘large-scale industrial wind farms’ like the planned offshore zone south of Sydney
Don't forget that even on Dutton's utterly made-up 2035 timeline, there's still at least 5-year Callide + Eraring + Yallourn + Collie sized hole in power generation with no plan to fill it.
www.theguardian.com
reneweconomy.com.au
I mean, if there is too much generation on the grid, you need to shut something off, this is basic grid management. From a cost perspective, once the plant is built, both nuclear and solar power are essentially free, so the question of which to shut off is mostly one of ease and response time.Definitely a good choice:
Former Liberal NSW treasurer Matt Kean named new chair of Climate Change Authority
Kean, who has been one of the Coalition’s most outspoken voices on the climate crisis, last week announced he would quit state parliament
And on the opposite side of things, the nuclear lobby says they're going to have to switch off rooftop solar in order for fixed base-load nuclear to be on the grid.
Nuclear lobby concedes rooftop solar will have to make way for reactors
Nuclear lobby groups admit that rooftop solar will be a major casualty of the push for “always on” nuclear. Is the public happy to have their PV modules switched off?
Not that this wasn't obvious, but they've actually been forced to say it out loud.
If you are going to build a load following NPP, you are going to have to deal with many more thermal cycles than one designed to run at high capacity factors, so adding to the capital cost. While the bulk of the cost of an NPP may be capital and financing, it still has an opex that is pretty much fixed. You have to pay for the operators, the maintenence and armed guards regardless of whether you are generating electricity or not, so it's not all free. Solar's opex is a rounding error in comparison to its capex.
Nuclear powers operating costs are also essentially a rounding error on comparison to capex. The huge costs associated with nuclear are all embedded costs, mostly construction costs beyond defrayed over decades, and, perhaps, water management when you do it then dumb way. So, once you have built the thing, you have already spent that money / incurred those costs.
The party of freedom and free markets prove yet again that it's freedom and free markets except when they and their mates might lose some money.Definitely a good choice:
Former Liberal NSW treasurer Matt Kean named new chair of Climate Change Authority
Kean, who has been one of the Coalition’s most outspoken voices on the climate crisis, last week announced he would quit state parliament
And on the opposite side of things, the nuclear lobby says they're going to have to switch off rooftop solar in order for fixed base-load nuclear to be on the grid.
Nuclear lobby concedes rooftop solar will have to make way for reactors
Nuclear lobby groups admit that rooftop solar will be a major casualty of the push for “always on” nuclear. Is the public happy to have their PV modules switched off?
Not that this wasn't obvious, but they've actually been forced to say it out loud.
Australia has HUGE installed rooftop solar, because all governments have supported it.
