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"You can’t prevent people from having bad ideas and you can’t prevent people
from talking about their bad ideas.
But sometimes, a piece of legislation can prevent bad ideas from taking up
large amounts of money and community time. This is what Australia’s ban on
nuclear power achieves.
Nuclear power is a bad idea in Australia.
It’s really expensive. It takes a long time to build. It doesn’t respond easily
to big peaks and troughs in electricity demand. Nuclear waste is a bummer, it
needs lots of water and when things go wrong, they REALLY go wrong.
Australia’s electricity companies and major consumers like aluminum smelters
all know this. None of them are interested in developing nuclear energy.
And yet, despite being such a bad idea, a lot of people in Australia are
talking about nuclear energy.
But talk is all they can do, thanks to the Howard era legislation that bans
nuclear development in Australia for power generation.
Thanks to the ban, all these ideas and all this talk will probably generate
plenty more inquiries, but no proposals for public money and community time.
This is the great benefit of the ban. The benefit is not that it prevents
serious nuclear development, for which no serious proposals exist.
The benefit is that it holds back all the speculators, shysters and con artists
that feed on Australian climate denial policy."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
