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"Choosing a nuclear power future over renewables will blow up Australia’s
carbon emissions budget and create a carbon time bomb of up to 2 billion tonnes
in extra greenhouse gases by 2050, a new analysis from the federal government’s
Climate Change Authority says.
The analysis, released on Monday, poses a grim picture of what the nuclear
future, as painted by Opposition leader Peter Dutton and analysed in a
controversial and contested Frontier Economics’ report in December, would look
like from an emissions perspective.
Extra emissions from the electricity sector alone would spike by a cumulative 1
billion tonnes come 2050, and this number would double when adding emissions
from a broader economy unable to use zero-carbon electricity.
Australia would miss its 82 per cent emissions-free electricity target by more
than a decade, reaching that target by 2042, and those emissions would also be
consistent with global warming of 2.6ºC, rather than the 1.8ºC currently
forecast for a renewables-led transition.
It will also ruin short term targets, causing Australia to miss its legislated
43% national emissions reduction target for 2030 by more than five percentage
points, and still not achieving this level of reduction by 2035.
The Coalition plans to build nuclear plants at seven sites across Australia for
an estimated $331 billion over 25 years. The locations are all old or current
coal power plant sites of Mount Piper and Liddell in New South Wales, Loy Yang
in Victoria, Tarong and Callide in Queensland, Port Augusta in South Australia,
and Collie in Western Australia.
Retaining coal fired power stations to hold space for the first nuclear
generators, which would come fully online in the late 2040s, means the worst
years for emissions will be 2034-2040."
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
