Fiona J Beck
@fjbeck.bsky.social
🏴🇧🇼🇦🇺 Energy Transition, Engineer, Physicist, Grappling with economics and policy in Australia. Choosing radical optimism that humanity can manage a just energy transition.
To be fair, AFR has published pro and con opinions on nuclear, as well as an article questioning the costings followed by a rebuttal. Not a cheerleader for AFR but credit where it is due www.afr.com//policy/ener...
Economics of Coalition’s nuclear modelling are worth nothing
There may well still be good reasons to favour nuclear. But on the basis of this modelling, the economics isn’t one of them.
www.afr.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:21 AM
To be fair, AFR has published pro and con opinions on nuclear, as well as an article questioning the costings followed by a rebuttal. Not a cheerleader for AFR but credit where it is due www.afr.com//policy/ener...
evidence shows that gas is not necessarily cleaner than coal, depending on where it comes. Some gas fields contain a lot of CO2 that needs to be stripped out of it during processing and methane leaks during processing, transmission and distribution can be large www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Exported gas produces far worse emissions than coal, major study finds
Research challenges idea that sending liquefied natural gas around the world is cleaner alternative to burning coal
www.google.com
December 17, 2024 at 8:09 AM
evidence shows that gas is not necessarily cleaner than coal, depending on where it comes. Some gas fields contain a lot of CO2 that needs to be stripped out of it during processing and methane leaks during processing, transmission and distribution can be large www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
