We have to 'move to nuclear' because we 'need a baseload power' 

Australia would be a superb balance of entrepreneurship and environmental pride if more people channelled Dick Smith's ideas.

I live near the Dungeness Nuclear Power Station. They used to do free tours. Very interesting day out.

*We Should Never have sacrificed people's livelihoods, peoples jobs, people's businesses and farms, our regions*

*We have to stay with coal.*

As long as it's fuel source is thorium, rather than uranium, it may not be too objectionable.

Put nuclear energy on the same referendum sheet as the voice. Let Australia decide.

I'm 100% for solar. Please sign my petition to ban CLOUDS..!

Do my ears deceive me? Is the debate starting about nuclear power? Thank God.

These alternative energy sources include thorium, solar power, natural gas and hydrogen. Thorium can be used as a fuel in the nuclear cycle as an alternative to uranium and the technology to facilitate this has been around since the 1960s.

Australia has destroyed the energy sysyem's economics, to the point where no investment in baseload, of any type, is viable. Power poverty is now certain, within this decade

They haven’t got a bloody clue , and by “they” I mean all of the so called leaders and scientific gurus ,

What's wrong with burning coal?

Instead of paying 650mil for nothing to the French sign a new deal for the French to build a nuclear plant in Australia if the 640mil payment be used as a downpayment for it instead of wasting it!!

Don’t see the point, stick with what works..coal!

There has to be a formal unbiased process where parties are held accountable for the information government used to make policy upon! Have my vote as I read email from my power supplier that prices are going up!!!

Men with common sense like him are so badly needed in politics, certainly here in America.

What a great man.

The problem with this whole debate around climate. Is the people who understand reality, know it wont take much to knock over the reliability of the Australian electrical power grid network. It is teetering now. As State governments sold off their electricity networks, and then told the people buying those assets, that by the way we are going to legislate you out of business. And that is essentially what the State Governments did, sold off their electricity assets, then outlawed coal and gas. And you think to yourself, with the population rising, and no new power stations, just the sheer fact, of demand versus output becomes a major problem. Throw the coal and gas power plant owners under the bus, and they refuse to maintain or expand those assets. Green energy machines are not as reliable, and cost a lot more, given you need a lot more of them means more cost. And little green ferals running around gluing themselves to road and blocking traffic don't get it. If the electricity grid becomes unstable, voters will not be interested in climate change. And that is where the loony left will lose this debate as they have done in the U.S. Is enforce their ideas upon the country, when they don't work, it's never their fault it's the people who don't believe them. And the left never get it, you can't force people to do something, it if does not work, or creates problems that were never there before they demanded change. The problem has been the left had put the arguments on what they will accept as green energy. It's just the cost of those machines in the form of solar panels - wind farms - solar batteries, cost a lot of money, and each one has a problem. With solar -they don't work at night - wind farms don't work when the wind does not blow. Solar batteries, can only do so many cycles before they are work out. Think of your car battery. You cannot drain even solar batteries down much more then 30% - 40% of their capacity. Anyone with a brain between their ears will understand this. A solar battery, might have a life of 20 if, and the if is a big one. You can store the battery not out in the sun or cold which also degrades them, at 25 degrees Celsius. Next, when you look up the battery specifications. Look at depth of discharge, versus how many cycles you will get from the batteries. It is there in the specifications. So the more depth of discharge, less battery life. All these things in particular solar panels and batteries are good for an individual house. When you try to do this on scale the problems just blow out. How do you keep the batteries at 25 degrees Celsius, depth of discharge, means you need a lot more batteries to carry the load demand on them. If you use the batteries heavily, they wont last long. Lithium batteries overheat, and can catch on fire even as solar batteries. What the left failed to see was, they needed an answer for base load electricity. Or a new source of base load power generation. And pumping water uphill and releasing it overnight is small scale hydro stuff. You wither go, nuclear, and here you really have to look at the latest technology, not the misleading 1950's photo of a nuclear power plant, that were first generation. The latest designs like pebble reactors are cooled by by gas, and can't melt down, as the uranium is made into round spheres like a cricket ball size. Or the small reactors from nuclear powered ships or submarines, sit in a building about the size of three shipping containers high. While ever the climate change debate remains locked on renewables, the loony left are going to get tarred and feathered. They forgot to do their homework. And that was what do coal and gas fired power plants put out now megawatts in terms of power each day. You can say what you like, about wind solar and batteries. They don't work on scale. They work on individual houses and as the solar panel scheme was originally rolled out. And people assume just put them together it must work. It works until the sun goes down, or you get repeated cloudy days blocking the sunlight reduces panel output. The other problem is no-one is asking right now what is the amount of electricity does Sydney or Melbourne use in ONE DAY. And the climate ferals don't think. Go and ask an electrical engineer what would it take to replace that capacity in solar panels, and the answer would more then likely be, you could not make enough of them to power a major capitol city in Australia. That's the reality that's going to ruin these ideas of climate change this or that. You have to look at existing technologies, and what generates base power load for a reasonable cost. If you go green energy, the costs will blow out, simply given the scale you have to replace once you take coal and gas fired power plants off line. And people will then realise politicians have been lying, and they can't play GOD with the climate.

Dick Smith has always made Sense and not Nonsense 👍

Yes yes and a thoroughly thought out yes, that time is now.

SMR baseload with more numerous smaller grids are future for all Anglosphere nation's. Sooner leadership figures this out the better we'll be

Nuclear.power for electricity and desalinated water to water the deserts. It's a win win.

Lets just do the coal again. Its cheap and already available. Yeah right tassie with their $1000 bills each quater for a family, using minimum shower time, no heater and short showers, get a grip on the situation with ordinary poor people.

Just thought I'd check in with Sky News to see if they were saying anything stupid and I wasn't disappointed.

Well said Dick! I couldn't agree more

Yes that’s because there mates have invested interest. The joke needs to stop.

I find it Amazing that the world still has one real news channel left for we the people so thanks sky news from America.

We need nuclear because it the best option at this point in time unless we’re living in the planet of rainbows and unicorns expecting windmills to produce iphones

Uh, why can't we use ALL FORMS OF ENERGY..?

Dick Smith demonstrates again that one successful businessman is more intelligent than 1,000 career politicians. Exhibit 2: Trump.

It’s politics not science.

The Batterys Only LAST Like an HOUR. Thats why they need SO Many. They WONT keep Industry going or the Lights on.

Their ABC will be hounding Dick Smith to come on their channel with his facts.

No we don't want another Maralinga Christmas island in our backyard thank you very much. Australia can utilise the Great Artesian basin to produce steam to run power turbines

*Wake up to this fraud.*

What is your plan for the waist, deadly to all life for 200,000yrs Molten Salt reactors or Thorium-based nuclear power produce the same output with less fuel and no danger and also can be switched of with a flick of a switch. The only thing you can't do is make purified uranium for bombs, but that's a good thing right.

Over the past 50 years, we should have had a multiple reactors at Radium Hill feeding the national grid and Australians with cheap, clean and unlimited energy. Australians have been ripped off

Chernobyl, Fukushima. What could possibly go wrong.

No we don’t think again

Nuclear is the way to go. It’s extremely safe these days, not like it used to be.

Because of China?

go find a company to build one that won't need public money.

Well said!!!

they covered a lot in a couple of minutes

Can someone please share a link to Chris’ documentary?

Nuclear Power ? No thanks !

happy days well wes got a clean green labor govenment at last?? they know how to keep us safe worm and dry well fed and happyaaaa??? im so happy now?? whens the new vaxin comming i think i might be getting sick ?? but still happy

Mr. Smith may have done a lot of walking but he seems to have both feet firmly on the ground!

Dick Smith you’re a commonsense thinker and maybe Dick Smith should look into industrial hemp as a rural energy resources and manufacturing industries.

why is CSIRO and the energy operator lying?

Habahahaha. How's that ac and electric car doing during the summer

That’s all very well and fine, but what are you planning on doing with all the nuclear waste? Ship it off to 3rd world countries to be buried?

Modular reactors is the way to go!

Why solar farms , how about install solar panels to individuals' homes and businesses

Do you want a green base load look at the Sydney Harbor the TIDE comes in the Tide goes out . What great way to generate power

how convenient in times of fuel prices going high .. ,,convenient ''

Dick said nuclear power plants 🪴 hummed and churned out energy carbon free, could someone ppl lease explain carbon. Is that the same carbon growers pump into their greenhouses to aide in the plant's growth? I'm very confused about the carbon footprint that we leave behind us .

Yes we all need nuclear!!

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No. Use less power.. its unsafe, kid.. undeniable, kid..

all power is evil shut all power down leave oil in the ground?? its for the gods to use??

wakey wakey wakey Australia...safe nuclear reactors have been built in Central Europe in 1960's...Czech republic has 6 running nuclear reactors...only 10 million people....you have everything to build and run nuclear reactors in OZ but something else very important is missing...(it's not the money)!!!

We have been stung in the short term because too many existing plants were off-line for maintenance. 1/3 of our capacity was offline! Clearly maintenance schedules need to be coordinated/approved by AEMO. Forgetting in the first instance about all forms of subsidy and penalty in using one form of power or another and for which location. If Albo can come back from his global gallivanting to his constituents and tell us that he has engaged 2 separate Aussie engineering consultants to analyze the options for additional power, that would be a grand first step. One report is to examine the short term (1-3 years) and the other would look at long term options. This would provide hopefully some unbiased information to enable decisions to be made. This power must be financed, planned, designed, constructed, operated and owned by the federal government for at least the next 10 years. No option should be ruled out. The reports should be made available to all people.

Fear usually paralyzers reason

Steam machines.

The main world resources of thorium are associated with monazite placer deposits in India, Brazil, Australia, the USA, Egypt, and Venezuela.

I say go nuclear. If that's the path we have to take.

Just checking what Dick and Chris are saying here is that the government needs to pay for Nuclear Generation either via direct ownership or subsidies to providers ?

Norman Mazlin, Stop "Fantasizing" and Start Supporting Australia's Amazing Solar Opportunity.

*There is the net-zero policy which I vehemently disagree with on the basis that it is only going to cost jobs.*

The latest parliamentary enquiry into nuclear energy in Australia found that it would be a poor fit for Australia's energy market. The chief engineer at AEMO said it was the last thing we needed in a 21st century market. Australia is a sunny country with the highest market penetration of rooftop solar in the world. From spring to autumn we now regularly have negative wholesale prices where solar is eating into baseload demand. In such a market, a nuclear plant would quickly go broke.

I can't seem to remember sky news Australia being so for nuclear power during the last 9yrs 🤔

Sky news is ling to you all again! After watching this show I would suggest getting familiar Dave Borlace. BSc in Technology youtube shows on Nuclear which further suggest the Nuclear is not the answer link to shows. ru-vid.comsearch?query=Nuclear

What are two things Australia has szhitloads of?? Wind. Sun. Fk nukes

It would take at least 20 years to move to nuclear. We don't have the expertise in building nuclear power stations let alone manning them. It would have been a fantastic idea if we adopted it decades ago.

CONG

It's Sky; It's Dangerous Lies.

Nuclear is a good medium term solution as apart from SMRs, they take quite a while to build. In the short term, High Efficiency, Low Emissions (HELE) coal fired power stations are a pretty good interim solution.

GOD BLESS DICK SMITH A TRUE HUMANITARIAN AUSTRALIAN

What is a news channel doing promoting nuclear every week ?

Geez sky is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for nuclear guests.

Not in the southern hemisphere. You already ruined stuff with the Maralinga testing.

Dick, We Will do it. Australia Will Run on Renewables. Stop Doubting Our Capabilities. Yes the Fact that there is No Genuine Large Scale Solar Power Station makes Our Renewable Capabilities look Poor. So We Must Fix this. Dick I Challenge You to Admit Nuclear Needs Storage, Multiple Types, Very Expensive, Very Long Term.

Yes the super rich and powerful want to build a billion dollar plant charge you for the cost, plus for whatever power you use. Win win for them. Lose lose for you.

Fusion reactors Go online in France in 2025 - free energy

more baby boomer ADVISORS ...sigh

Nuclear Energy Production uses a hell of alot of water for cooling the rods. So the Nuclear Reglatory Commission or NRC should be investigated for plausible environmental contamination of underground water and waterways and lakes due to radioactive water.

Actually, with new advances in battery technology, we could well be on the brink of a storage revolution... and similar advances in solar panels make them more efficient, too.

We are doing nuclear whether they like it or not

Despite the economic downturn,I'm so happy☺️. I have been earning $ 60,000 returns from my $7,000 investment every 13days.

i vote we put all our politicians on bigger versions of those wheels that rats and mice use.

If we can somehow harness enough nuclear energy then vincey can mobilise his giant kangzilla weapon under the grear barrier.

Yeah let's have another fukushima or Chernobyl disaster but this time in Australia 👍. Its safe! And have media pretend to be inside fukushima reactor 4 building. A building that blew! To trick the world that everything is okay 😃

Just to correct something Dick said about Nuclear not being cheaper than coal and gas, etc , on Credlin they gave out the following costs published by an Australian Trade Union a couple of years back :- Cost per kilowatt (Australian dollars) = Nuclear $5596, Fossil Fuels $10,000 Wind $12,373 and Large scale Solar $14,882. So that makes Nuclear at less than 60% of Coal and Gas, and an awful lot cheaper than the wind and solar sources. Let's be honest, if there wasn't such a massive amount of money going to the "renewables" sector in subsidies and promises of "more to come", this would be no contest.

Don't be ridiculous, tell people about cold fusion technology and Tesla free energy!!! Nothing can stop what is coming, nothing!

Lazard’s 7th Levelised Cost of Storage report puts the unsubsidised cost of wholesale PV and storage (50MW/200MWh) at between $US85-$US158. Nuclear costs between $131 and $204 $/MWh.

*Net-zero emissions will mean net zero jobs. And posibly alter your soon to be net-zero credit spending if the WEF gets its way.*

We are more informed about Nuclear.

It's too sensible.

On tonight's episode of sky's groundhog Day.. Same bat time Same bat channel Same sky puppets Same complaints Same result Australians voted in support of clean renewable energy sources. 🌏 😆😆😆😆