Carlton Supporters Club

Bit like buying a EV vehicle, high initial expense and you need to drive a certain number of K's to break even and then you start saving money.
You need all States working together and a network of reactors which deliver no more than 10% of the total output each for safety and maintenance.
It's the initial outlay, selling the cost/reward and setting up a controlling administration with the usual politics involved which are the barriers to entry for Australia.
The technology is there but it's pushing the go button in people's minds that is the hard bit...

Wouldnt have an EV vehicle if you gave it to me for nicks EB.

Im 50/50 GTC...my brain says the next car we buy has to be some form of EV either Hybrid, PHEV or Full electric but when you sit down and do the maths, pros and cons its hard to justify the expense. You look at the resale value on a EV with old batteries for example and it isnt going to be great and we just dont do the Km's anymore.
Also do you want to be stuck with a combustion only vehicle in 5-7 years time when Governments are going to be insisting you go some form of EV and making life harder for non EV cars/owners.
Long gone are the days when you keep a car for ten plus years like you and I might have done in the past...with tech changing/safety equipment getting more advanced etc you feel more inclined to upgrade to keep your family safer and thats how cunning car makers market and make their cars now...what to do?

the same applies to renewables about the grid and storage of energy. 

Its still moving forward.

  Im not arguing right vs wrong here, I'm saying the bean counters don't always measure things with saving the most amount beans, rather they count beans with politics involved, and will waste more beans for many reasons not to do with being efficient with the beans.

We all know that a nuclear power plant is unwanted on anyone's doorstep and thats the main blocker behind any of them being built and consequently a political loser which is the main blocker behind them being built.

I have looked at swapping my car for a new one a number of times in the past couple of years but I just don't seem to be able to make a good case, apart from the temptation of getting into a bright shiny new toy.

I don't think EVs are quite there yet and I am reluctant to invest significant funds into a new internal combustion model at this point. I don't travel long distances these days so I think I'll just keep running the old bomb for as long as it keeps going. It's still low Ks and has good service history so fingers crossed it's good for a couple of more years.

I have looked at swapping my car for a new one a number of times in the past couple of years but I just don't seem to be able to make a good case, apart from the temptation of getting into a bright shiny new toy.

I don't think EVs are quite there yet and I am reluctant to invest significant funds into a new internal combustion model at this point. I don't travel long distances these days so I think I'll just keep running the old bomb for as long as it keeps going. It's still low Ks and has good service history so fingers crossed it's good for a couple of more years.

I made the decision to buy a new ICE vehicle last year and took delivery in November - a 2 litre turbo.

No doubt owning an EV would give me a feeling of keeping up to date with technology but I see far too many problems with every day motoring.

Just to mention a few:  how long will it be before the infrastructure is in place which will enable  millions of cars to be re-charged at home at night, and how will it be financed?  What will be the infrastructure and its cost which will enable cars parked in units and on every suburban road in our cities to be charged every night?

Today it took me under five minutes to fill my tank, pay the attendant, and drive away.  How many thousands of charging units will be required, and at what cost, to allow motorists to charge their batteries during the day to 80 percent charge in a time remotely close to filling a petrol engine car?

The overseas experience seems to be that approximately 50 percent of charging units are out of order at any one time and can take several days to be brought online again.

I believe that by the time these problems are solved I will be too old to worry about driving.

Leaving Australia aside with its ban on nuclear power, it's economics that is stopping investment in nuclear power.  The 2019 World Nuclear Industry Status report gives the following energy production costs:

You do realize this is a false flag entity, the name is a direct contradiction to the interests of those on the panel, they masquerade as a nuclear industry panel when they are in fact an assemblage of nuclear abolitionists claiming to be impartial.

That panels behaviour is the exact thing that has turned me away from green and renewable energy, a lie is a lie no matter which direction it comes from.

They are the nuclear industry version of the Australian Vaccination Network!

I think you may be stretching things just a tad there LP 

The WNISR is up front about its opposition to nuclear power.  However, that doesn't detract from the data presented in its reports, most of which is drawn from sources such as nuclear power generator companies' annual reports, the IAEA, Nuclear Energy International magazine, the Economic Commission for Europe, the US Department of State, White House Fact Sheets, and other national governments' status reports.  The WNISR even presents a comparison of its findings with those of the IAEA so you can drill down and satisfy yourself about the reliability of conflicting data sets.