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Electricity from nuclear power is continuous, uninterruptable, emission free, and utilizes the least amount of earth’s natural resources to generate electricity.
Reliable, available 24/7 and affordable electricity underpins our economy and is critical to our future prosperity (if we have one as a sovereign nation).
There is one fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control so loved by the bureaucracy – it fails to encourage the survival and multiplication of resistant individuals.
All the parts and components of the net zero emissions fantasy from wind turbines and solar panels are 100% dependent on the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil, the same oil that net zero enthusiasts want to rid the world of.
The current push in Australia to deploy nuclear power reactors once again contrasts an excessive optimism by nuclear proponents against the continuing stagnant situation of nuclear power worldwide.
Everyone is probably fed up to their eye teeth with cyclone talk after Ex Tropical Cyclone Alfred has stopped pirouetting and taken his final bows before exiting stage left.
Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, only the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources to bolster their economies and provide prosperous lives for their citizens.
For the 5th largest economy in the world, the State imports most of its demand for oil from foreign countries and imports more electricity than any other state in America.
Official figures show that Australia’s emissions were 465.9 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent in the year to March 2023. This was an increaseof 0.1 per cent despite huge spending on 'renewables'.
The world faces critical energy crossroads, with Energy Literacy conversations needed on the role of crude oil, renewables, and nuclear power in driving future growth.
