Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "" video.

  1. HEY MICHAEL I am an engineer who's been looking into Australia's energy issues since a small project in 2016 alerted me to how bad BOTH parties are doing. If you would damn well talk to me I'd explain how the Labor Renewable plan is flawed but can be made to work and how the ALP plan is a DISASTER that will cost every Australian household around $25,000 before we get the system built. the ALP Nuclear plan is idiotic. The problem with BOTH plans is they are ostensibly the whims of economists with very little input from engineers. The Labor 82% Renewable energy plan can't work for some technical issues and ITS NOT JUST STORAGE. Right now Australia's 54GW of renewable energy is delivering less than 50% of what it should be because of bad planning BUT that's not the problem we are running towards. The bigger issue is a phenomenon NOBODY with harmonics on top of the 50hertz AC power signal. With previous generations of power stations this was not a problem because of how the power was generated and then "pumped" our grids. I first heard about the problems in the late 90s but it was such an obscure subject most engineers have never heard of it let alone dealt with it. The ALP plan on the other hand is a disaster in the making. Once they disclosed that they intended to provide 38% of Australia's energy using nuclear at a cost of $330 Billion I was able to workout the basics of their plan. The funniest is that number 38% was calculated. The crazy thin was how its calculated. The simple fact is the only 2 realistic options to "start construction" in MAY 2025 is to build EITHER: - European (French) EPR 2s like those under construction ay Hinkley Point C in Britain; or - American (Westinghouse) AP1000s like those recently finished at Vogtle in Georgia. Yes there's the South Korean Kepco APR-1400 but Kepco got caught falsifying records and paperwork to their own Government and NO amount of spin will get that past a skeptical Australian Public. Yes there's also the Canadian CANDU but considering their latest design the Advanced CANDU was rejected by their own government makes it a dubious choice but possibly worth considering. Yes there are Japanese reactors but after Fukushima who's going to buy those again. Yes there's Molten Salt Reactors that might also run on Thorium but who has one working. Yes there's SMRs but even the best experts put their first deliveries AT BEST in 2035. Basically for $330 Billion you can buy 8 x EPR2s or 11-12 x AP1000s depending on exchange rates. So the ALP plans to have some of their 7 sites to have more than 1 reactor. But that's not the crazy thing. Right now we have 27 million and by 2050 that will be around 40 million and by 2090 when these reactors will react end of life the population will be over 60 million at current rates. So either we become a lot more efficient with energy or more than 1/2 - 2/3rds of the population wont have electricity at all OR to maintain that 38% we will need to spend more like $2-3 Trillion. BUT THEN If our population continues to grow to the estimates a few people propose then we will need to spend several Trillion on basic infrastructure like roads, rail, bridges, water, sewerage, schools,.............and a lot more other stuff just to keep up. The problem is our governments are trapped in 3 year planning cycles and the only people allowed into the conversation are ECONOMISTS or those few who agree with the ECONOMISTS, but that's another story. YES I have done what's called research on the subject.
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