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I'd say this is a real shot across the bow for Australia, as it signals decoupling from the coal economy.
Incidentally, Australia has huge reserves of uranium, so a nuclear economy would rely on them as well. Unless you're using breeder reactors and/or thorium reactors.
Australia isn't looking so happy.
They've been saying fusion is right around the corner since the 50s. What's the chance they're right this time?
They're much more right than they were in the 1950s.
There are multiple reactors right now, utilizing different design approaches, which can fuse and contain plasma. The work right now is on increasing the net-energy and reaction time
Dunno. I also don't know if they were containing plasma in the 50s.
They weren't.
China has a lot of mining operations and therefore a ton of thorium just laying about.
Every country has huge deposits of thorium.
Learn this one neat trick to decouple yourself from the hated English post-colonial dregs.
Australians hate it.
But modern container ships don't burn coal, they burn bunker fuel which is an oil product?
Australia's days are numbered either way with China moving towards renewables an nuclear at speed but I just don't see the connection here.
Noo! Maybe if we just insult them a couple more times, insinuate they are inhuman oriental savages who should be grateful that our blessed white nation is willing to give them our wonderful coal, they'll change their minds.