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Author: David (Australia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 06:44:13 01/24/05 Mon In reply to: Andrew(Canada) 's message, "nuclear power" on 23:41:20 01/20/05 Thu I am a strong supporter of nuclear power and I would like to see a French style energy policy (ie. over 75% of electricity coming from nuclear) in Australia and an FC. Global warming in an enormous problem that must be confronted urgently. It is a problem that will affect many of our Commonwealth friends, particulary island nations in the Pacific. We need to urgently reduce our greenhouse gas emmisions before it is too late and global warming becomes irreversible. The only way to realisticly do this is to adopt nuclear power and phase-out coal and other carbon-based power stations. Hydro power has a role to play but wind power typically costs about three times the price of nuclear power and solar fifteen times. We can't solve the problem of global warming by covering the countryside in windmills and trebling our electricity bills, the only way is through nuclear power. Australian energy policy is an area of policy that constantly annoys me. We are the largesrt emmiter of greenhouse gases per capita in the world because we have no nuclear power stations. Even the notoriously inefficient US is worse than us and so are countries such as Finland which use enormous amounts of electricity. Despite this we are becoming even more carbon dependent (the NSW government is even planning new coal-fired power stations!) Australia has about 30% of the worlds uranium reserves (the world's largest), inclunding the largest single reserves at Olympic Dam in South Australia. Unfortunanltly though, we don't produce 30% of the world's share. I think Canada has the second largest reserves at about 20%. Combined, an FC would control at least 50% of the world's uranium reserves. In my opinion we should be looking to take advantage of this valuable natural resource through the peaceful use of nuclear power. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |