What Powers Australia?

Where does Australia get most of its, uh, electricity from? I would think like wind turbines or something, solar, wind, um, solar panels, water power. I think you have one nuclear power plant. I don't think we have thermal yet; hydro and nuclear, don't they? No, coal. Coal and coal. Mostly coal, it's coal.

Nonrenewable sources such as coal. What about having nuclear in Australia? Would you want that or not? I don't think I would be supportive. I'm more for like solar and wind power. I would not want it. I would like to see other cleaner technologies pursued, such as wind power, green energy, solar power.

I mean, I don't really know everything about it, but it can be pretty dangerous if it does get damaged. So, I don't know. I think there's better options from my point of view. We have actually many, uh, nuclear power plants in Japan, right? So, it's almost like normal now.

I can't say anything, but yeah, people might feel or might go against it. The population as a whole, like we don't know much about it. But I think mass publicity is very negative about it because of the mistakes. That's debatable.

It is debatable. Which side of the debate would... well, it's kind of hard to say because it does, like, well, it generates energy and whatnot without using the coal, which is running out. And there's different, like, they're making more efficient ways to get rid of the waste. Although there's still, like, some waste.

But then again, if you do have a meltdown or something along those lines, then it can be really harmful too. A lot of people, I'm for nuclear energy as long as it's away from populations, where those sort of stuff can't happen. I mean, we have a lot of like spare land. So, if we stuck it out in the desert somewhere, I don't think that it would affect too many people.

Would you want nuclear power in Australia? Oh God, yes, yes, yes! Tell me why. It's clean, apart from the waste, but I'm sure we'll figure something out with that. Um, but what about the potential of something like what's happening in Japan? That the main one that they're worried about, there was an old reactor that was supposed to go out of commission very shortly.

They couldn't have foreseen a natural disaster coming. I think it was a bit of a fluke accident. And I think every year they're developing these, uh, nuclear power plants more and more. We're getting a better understanding of it, and I think it's a very safe, viable way of generating power.

Well, yeah, I think it's probably the cleanest alternative we got at the moment. As you know, like, coal releases a lot of stuff into the atmosphere, and I think it'd be very naive to think that doesn't have an effect. Also, if you're using something like wind power or something like that, you have to clear a lot of land to make it viable because it's not really that efficient.

So, I think nuclear is our only option for mass production of power, and considering we have a growing population, it's the only option we've really got.