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The fastest way to get people thinking about where their power comes from is to deprive them of it. A lengthy evening blackout will do it, every time.

Australia’s Eastern Grid (that connects Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia) is a veritable house of cards – a coal-fired power plant closure away from complete collapse. Having power as one thing, being able to afford it, is another. Prices are rocketing at unprecedented rates. Retail prices will jump by 20% to 30% in June, following annual, double-digit increases every year, for the best part of a decade

In Australia, with its idiotic ban on nuclear power, the conversation is turning to the only, stand-alone generation source that can deliver reliable, affordable power without generating CO2 gas, in the process.

Both the green-left Labor/Green Alliance and the notionally conservative Liberal party have signed up to the…