The Guardian Australia: Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sounds about right for his party. They love dumping insane amounts of taxpayer money on obsolete technology. They literally stopped the rollout of a fibre network nationally part way through to switch it with a bullshit "multi technology" solution which turned out to be a dogs breakfast.

EDIT: for comparison, the cost to build a 100% solar wind and battery system that would supply all the power needs for Germany, a nation with more than double Australia's electricity demand, was estimated to be $367 billion (source)

[-] CTDummy@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

Excuse me, don’t you mean they bitched about cost before the roll out, stopped the rollout, then promised a cheaper solution (MTM as you mention) that retained old shitty infrastructure and then it still cost $11 billion more than the initial FTTP proposal due to cost blowouts. All in the name of partisan politics.

I agree, I trust LNP and by extension Dutton as much as that party deserves with proposals like this, fuck all. They didn’t even have any figures for the project cost when he proposed it.

As someone who grew up in the bush with shit internet until their late teens I’ll probably never get over the nbn fuckup.

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