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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Problem is we do not have technology for that yet which is scalable

Yes we do. And projects like Snowy Hydro 2 are significantly cheaper and quicker to build than a nuclear power plant.

Tasmania is near as makes no difference 100% renewable now. South Australia is rapidly heading in the same direction. It's going to take time, but eventually the entire country will get there - because renewable power is just cheaper.

Hydro is not modern technology - humans have been using it for thousands of years. Coal is far more recent, and we never should have switched to it.

Australia could easily run entirely off hydro and we'd be paying less for power than current prices. That won't happen though, because there are even cheaper options than Hydro (solar, for example, is significantly cheaper if you don't need baseload power, and a lot of use cases don't need that).

I agree, it's not possible to run the country off batteries. Nobody (who knows what they're talking about) is suggesting that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hydro is great. Problem is we will never have second Snow Hydro, there is no place to build second one. And we also nearly out of places to build hydro generation plants. TAS have some resources but transmission to/from is pita.