Wind turbines all have the same inherent problem….. noise. Talk to anybody adjacent to a “Wind Farm” what they think.

So apart from the Visual Pollution when a well meaning neighbour erects one that is right in the middle of your view and the very reason you purchased your high priced home you also now have the noise of dozens of them around your home. Everybody wants to remove street power lines and poles. What would Streets of these look like!!

Sorry but Solar has to be the way for Australia.

Old-Bonez

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Regarding water consumption, it's a non-argument. A nuclear power plant is a thermal engine, just as a coal-fired, geothermal or gas-fired plant is - and a thermal engine with a body of water in the environment as its heatsink, with the same power output and the same heat source temperature requires the same flow rate of tertiary cooling water from the lake or whatever it is. Nuclear power plants are subject to exactly the same laws of thermodynamics as a coal-fired power plant.

It doesn't have to be water from a body of water used for tertiary cooling, either - cooling towers can of course be used, just like a coal-fired power plant.
Basically, the short story is that the water requirements of a nuclear power plant aren't very different to the equivalent coal-fired plant, which they can replace.
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Water consumption is a serious problem. I agree that a coal-fired plant would consume as much water as a nuclear plant, but that is exactly my point. Both types of plant expend enormous amounts of energy to boil water to make steam to turn a turbine to produce electricity, either by mining the coal and burning it or mining the uranium and enriching it, and both types of plant use enormous amounts of surface water in the process.

Geothermal, on the other hand, uses no surface water, only the water that is already in the ground which is pumped down into the hot rocks where it turns to steam which comes up to turn the turbines and the condensate is pumped back down again. Once the plant starts operating it is self-sustaining, producing its own energy to operate the pumps. It requires no more raw materials and produces no waste or pollution, just clean, green electricity. So it is a form of nuclear power, but the nuclear materials stay buried deep underground where they belong.

How could anyone even think of embracing nuclear power when all our coal-fired power plants could be replaced by geothermal?

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