Ignoring inconvenient truths and facts

with spent fuel and the end-oflife of the reactors.

This is not a reason to dismiss nuclear out of hand given that stand-alone renewables (solar and wind) are not fit for purpose for Australia’s electricity needs.

Nuclear needs to be assessed better, as do renewables.

This proponent of renewables states that renewables are free.

Any large-scale electricity generation facility is NOT free.

It is called capital cost. Those who do not understand that need to go back to school.

Sheep are forgiven as they do not go to primary school.

That solar and wind are dependent on the vagaries of the weather are not old cliches, they are inconvenient facts for prorenewable die-hards.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the metric used for comparison of electricity costs among different generation methods (LCOE) is flawed (for the comparison).

Fossil and nuclear respond to demand whereas most renewables (solar and wind) do not and are dependent on the vagaries of the weather and not on demand for electricity.

This means that stand-by capacity of renewables will increase capital cost by a number of integers.

Another way of looking at it is that the capacity utilisation