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Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nitpick: Nuclear isn't obsolete, it's as modern as the design you choose.
Nuclear isn't a replacement for renewables (like the coalition tries to suggest), and it isn't evil (like an internal faction in the greens tries to suggest).
We need:
Sidenote: Since whenever anyone suggests that nuclear isn't to be abhorred whenever it's brought up, here are the 3 common things brought up so no one has to ask it.
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2013/04/baseload-power-is-a-myth--even-intermittent-renewables-will-work
That source doesn't have a link to their paper that works.
But based on what was stated just in your link, they say if we build enough storage then we wouldn't need any baseload generation, which is technically correct.
In particular, they're relying on hydro and gas storage.
(specifically renewable gas and not natural gas, because natural gas is still bad)
But as far as I know we can't build anywhere near enough hydro in Australia. Gas storage could technically work, but you'd have to build a ludicrous and economically infeasible amount of gas storage, or pump it into empty spaces underground (but I don't think we have enough of those in Australia either).
I'm under the impression that modern nuclear plants as baseload production would still be cheaper than the renewable gas storage we would need to maintain power.
Do you have a working link to the original paper or a study into how much renewable gas storage we'd require and the costs associated with it?
Yeah, link rot.
I did some googling for you: https://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Low%20Emission%20Fossil%20Scenarios.pdf