Wind turbines are great why do greens never consider how quick the blades wear due due to pitting, other words very high maintenance costs.
Yes, exactly like an aeroplane's propeller. Also just like the vanes and bearings on a steam driven turbine.
Solar panels also wear out and die, depending on the force of the light they're exposed to they'll only last between 8 and 15 years. And the batteries have a maximum life of around 15 years too. That's a part of life that has never changed and never will, nothing lasts forever.
What is driving the nuclear argument here is the large corporations that have been controlling our electricity markets for the last 25 years, before that all electricity generation in Australia was owned and operated by the government, it was a government utility.
With lots of little privately owned electricity farms all over the country these large corporations are losing their market and they're buying politicians to push their agenda. They don't want lots of little privately owned electricity farms, they want singular large and expensive power plants supplying whole cities because only they can afford to build and own it and then only they will control it and with this model they get to manipulate prices and increase their fortunes.
One of the big differences between Australia and a lot of other countries is that all the infrastructure for electricity distribution is still owned by the government. They privatised the operation of power plants but retained ownership of all the infrastructure. The same with our phone systems, the government owns all the infrastructure.
Centralised electricity generation is incredibly wasteful. Unless you can afford to install heavily shielded cables for your entire electricity network a lot of power is lost in the form of electromagnetic radiation from overhead high voltage cables. The further along a line the electricity has to travel the greater the loss. Decentralising power generation makes simple practical economic sense.
The shift has been a godsend for many farmers in Australia's drier regions too. There is a deliniation between two different climates in Australia called The Goyder Line, south of that line we can grow wheat and sheep, north of that line we can't. Due to climate change that line has been steadily crawling further and further south, farms that were viable 10 or 15 years ago are now too dry to grow much at all. No rain, no clouds, nothing but dust and sunshine. This is how those farmers are diversifying:
