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Russell Broadbent supports nuclear energy for reducing emissions and ensuring energy security, citing its reliability over renewables

Russell Broadbent, Federal Member for Monash, emphasises nuclear energy's crucial role in achieving emissions reduction and energy security, contrasting its reliability with the uncertainty and limitations of renewable energy sources.

By news@gippsland - 16th July 2024 - Back to News

Labor, The Greens, and Teals have got a real problem if they remain ignorant to the undeniable role that nuclear energy must play in our energy grid. If the goal is to reduce emissions and reach net zero by 2050, surely nuclear power is the obvious option. Nuclear beats renewable energy, fair and square. Nuclear provides continuous and reliable energy. Renewables provide intermittent and unreliable energy.

Government's renewable energy focus faces uncertainty; flawed business cases and regulatory shifts stall investment. Intermittent renewables can't reliably provide baseload power

Renewables' uncertain future

The future of renewable energy is riddled with uncertainty. Investment in renewable energy projects has stalled because of their flawed business case and governments changing the rules, moving the goalposts. Yet still, the government of the day is persistent to focus on renewables only. And if the government is so sure that the market does not approve of nuclear energy, just lift the ban and find out!

Labor's obsession with renewables as a source for baseload power doesn't stack up. Renewables can't be a source for baseload power due to their intermittent output. It has already gotten to the point where state governments are paying for the continuation of coal-fired power plants because otherwise, we'd be in for blackouts!

In a country where we are wealthy in natural resources, we should surely have our energy security figured out. But the failed effort to conform with global standards of 'sustainability' will impose a negative supply shock on energy, on ourselves! In the long run, we need to be thinking about sustainability in its former meaning - the ability to maintain productivity, and that is not possible if Australia is left in the dark.

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