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"A former CSIRO energy director has said Peter Dutton’s attempt to politicise
the national science agency’s work on the likely costs of nuclear reactors is
“incredibly disappointing” and “absurd”.
The opposition leader attacked the CSIRO after its latest GenCost report
reaffirmed that electricity from nuclear energy in Australia would be at least
50% more expensive than power from solar and wind, backed up with storage.
Dutton claimed: “It just looks to me like there’s a heavy hand of Chris Bowen
in all of this.”
Bowen, the energy minister, said GenCost was “an independent report with no
role by any member of parliament or minister”, and said Dutton should apologise
to the agency.
Prof Glenn Platt, of the University of Sydney and an energy industry
entrepreneur, was research director on energy at CSIRO before leaving the
national science agency in 2021.
He said instead of debating the substance of the CSIRO’s report, Dutton’s
response was “lazy” and undermined the scientific process.
“It’s incredibly disappointing. It’s lazy just to say that you must have been
politicised because the answer isn’t what you like,” said Platt, a fellow of
the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
