. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.If federal and state Labor governments wanted to improve their chances at upcoming elections they should placate regional voters by spending more on renewable energy delivery systems. Most people think wind, hydro and solar are a great idea but not too many want ugly and dangerous transmission towers on their land and towns.
I recall two instances of this. The first was when one of my daughters, when in grade 2, was showing me her maths work. She showed me a division problem – what is 13 divided by 3 and had her answer 4.1 marked correct. I spoke to the teacher about it, who said it represented 4 with a remainder of 1. I explained that it would confuse students when they actually moved on to decimals and should be represented as 4 rem 1 .
Coal and gas are being wound back. Wind and solar provide more than enough electricity in the middle of the day but not at other times. Investment in renewables is declining. Battery development is still primitive. Electricity prices are rising. This looks like market failure. In this context, government intervention to support nuclear power is an obvious and necessary course.