A special noon-day edition of reptile nuking of the country to save the country ...

 

Truly, speak from the heart, did anyone miss an early morning edition of the pond which focussed on the thoughts of the Major and the Craterist?

The pond has to hand a psychiatrist available for consultations for anyone who felt a deep sense of loss ...

That said, it's not the reptiles' fault that they're gnawing yet again on the 'nuke the country' bone. 

It's in their nature. It was Bowen that fed them the bone on the weekend, and sent them into a wild-eyed nuking frenzy, with the tree killer edition this morning rekindling the frenzy ...

Simplistic "here no conflict of interest" Simon led the way with a poll, which was lucky because it helped the pond avoid Fergo, the killing fields and the genocide ...

Long ago when involved in polling, the pond discovered that it was only necessary to ask the right question to get the right result ...

Ah, and the support for unicorns and mermaids grows stronger by the day too ...

The closest the pond could get to the question was in another simple Simon yarn about the poll was the line "when asked if they would support building SMRs."

They weren't asked about function and current practicality or costs, and they probably weren't advised that this was simply a way of fear mongering, distraction and division, a chance to provide the mutton Dutton and sidekick Ted with a new angle.

To be fair, the pond would support unicorns and would even contemplate the building of an SMR, provided it was adjacent to Parliament house, was economical and competitive, and arrangements were made for the disposing of the waste in the chamber ...

Never mind, simpleton Simon was on a fanatical war footing and ready to strike the first blow in the crusade of the day ...

Then the reptiles made it clear what it was all about. A bold, brave leader with a vision of the way forward for unicorns, mermaids and SMRs ...

After all the huff and puff, simple Simon then dropped off the twig ...

Talk about a thought crime: "A debate over nuclear power is unlikely to shift either way", but in simple Simon's world it translates into "political bravery" ...

The pond doesn't intend to traverse the curious history of SMRs because there on the far right in his favourite perch was the climate science denying Major.

Why the Major should get so het up under the collar about a solution to a problem that doesn't exist in his fertile mind has always mystified the pond, but mystification is a key reptile skill, as valued as reeling and writhing ...

Once again Bowen had to take the blame. You can't rattle the cages and toss the reptiles a bone without expecting a feast. They'll go on chewing on this for months, at least until the election or someone works out the cost of sticking an actually functioning SMR in Muswellbrook ... (maybe a unicorn instead?)

Followers of the reptile cult, aschannelled by the pond, will recall that snap of Twiggy and Bowen has been given a real work out.

As for the Major, he's delighted he can consign the planet to the pleasures of climate change ...

It's a reptile vow. You'll never ever read a story like 'It looked like we were at sea': UK River and Rowing Museum faces up to climate threat.

The museum’s director, the former British rowing champion Steve O’Connor, said significant flooding around the 26-year-old museum was no longer a “once in a generation” event, with the climate crisis increasing the frequency and severity.

“We’ve often heard these floods as once in a generation but we’re having that now every 10 years,” O’Connor said, looking over the nearly overflowing flood plains outside the windows of the museum cafe.

“I don’t think it’s fair to say now that it’s once in a generation, it’s once a decade, and for years we’ve had warnings that we will have wetter winters and I think now we have to agree that those wetter winters are here. So we should be planning for that now.”

Pshaw, feeble doubting Steve, hearken ye unto the Major, discoverer of missing Order of Lenin medals ... we can always gas the planet ...

Naturally at this point the reptiles couldn't resist slipping in a snap of their favourite technology ...

Then the Major changed tack, back to a pet hobby horse, the EV (confession and declaration of interest, the pond is a contented user of an EV, which happily is quiet and goes like stink, and yet is merely a base model. Zero problems and the only anxiety encountering a Tesla driver).

Then it was time to end with a rousing Major rant that the pond seems to have read a squillion times before ... you know, dear, sweet, innocent, dinkum virginal coal and all the rest of the jazz ...

Of course a tour of nuking the country to save the country wouldn't be complete without a trip down below the fold ...

There was the Caterist, flood water quarry whisperer cheek by jowl with simple Simon and madness was in the air ... and once again it was all Bowen's fault ...

On the upside, the pond had been relieved of the burden of a bout of transphobia with cackling Claire - is there a hermaphrodite in the house to talk of the science of sex? - so the Caterist could take the floor.

At this point, some without the strength might start whining and moaning that they've heard all this before, and start to blather about SMRs, their costs and finding an actual working model built to a. price, but relax, the flood water quarry whisperer is a firm climate science denialist. Just like the Major this is about distraction, and creating confusion and chaos in the aged reptile readership ...

Of course it collapses at the first brush with reptile reality. Be fair, give credit. The mutton Dutton and Ted are just stooges, it's the reptiles who have decided that nuking the country is the perfect culture wars distraction.

The pond is already so over it that the pond feels no need to link to SMR news...

Who needs to read yet again this sort of negative neighing ...

...In this context, it's unsurprising that a debate around nuclear power has been reignited. Nuclear proponents suggest there is potential for SMRs to be used for low-emissions electricity generation in Australia, providing essential firming capacity to support variable renewables. 

However, a review of the available evidence makes it clear. Despite nuclear power being a component of electricity generation for 16 per cent of the world’s countries, it does not currently provide an economically competitive solution in Australia. We also do not have the relevant frameworks in place for its consideration and operation within the timeframe required. In summary:

• Nuclear power is not currently legislated for in Australia
• Large scale nuclear power is not the appropriate size for Australia’s relatively small electricity grids
• The time needed for nuclear SMR to prove commercially viable, and overcome other hurdles, rules it out of any major role in the electricity sector emission abatement required for Australia to reach its net-zero emissions target in 2050

Who needs another bloody graph?

This isn't an ABC finance report. Enough already with the graphs. Trust in the Caterist flood waters in quarries whisperer ... he's got a degree in sociology!

And there you have it. More evidence that Bowen set the pigeons scampering about in fear of the cat.

Lest the point of this enterprise not be clear, the reptiles provided a snap ... of Captain Potato and lurking in the background, the beefy windmill hating boofhead from Goulburn ...

And the mere sight of his fearless leader sent the Caterist into a Mingian frenzy ...

Say what? For a moment, the pond was unnerved, with the Caterist talking of the mid-2030s and offering the most subtle of hints, what with "reform of the energy market" being code for the need to drop squillions on nuking the country ...

Still the reptile nerve held steady with a shot of a magnificent beast in action ...

That helped the flood waters in quarries whisperer regain his nerve ... he too knew, just like the Major, that the way to nuking the country lay through gassing the country ...

Why all the fuss, why all the to do and carry-on? As any fuel would kno, this whole nonsense is for an "imagined climate emergency."

So we have to nuke the country for an "imagined climate emergency?"

Indeed, so.

This is just a terribly expensive way of humouring religious fanatics, or if you will, because the flood waters in quarries whisperer is a bear of few brains, and even fewer words, the virtue signallers...

Ah yes, sit down and eat a lunch with the flood waters in quarries whisperer...

"Plenty of other people have made the case against nuclear on the basis of issues such as a lack of social licence, or the challenges involved with location. Those issues are not unique to nuclear – but unlike other technologies, nuclear hasn’t had to go through siting or approval processes before in Australia," Paul says.

"Taking all that into account, and knowing the longer it takes to build something the more likely it is that real costs will increase rather than decrease, it’s very clear that nuclear is going to find it very challenging to compete against renewables in Australia."

Gad sir, not in reptile la la land, where they're desperately searching for new ways to deny climate science by pretending to embrace it and provide a solution ...

Well some of them are,  though the façade is inclined to drop ... and we end up in this farcical parade of nuking the country façadism ...

You see how it works, the Orwellian touch beloved of reptiles. Where once the talk was of big pharma or big tobacco or big fossil fuels, now it's "big renewables."

As for Michael Buffer, given the way that insurance costs are going, perhaps we should embrace his other slogan. "Let's get ready to bundle!".

Given a chance to rate this day's pond experiences, the pond vastly more enjoyed David Hardaker singing a song with Hillsong than it did experiencing the mind-numbing stupidities of the Major and the flood waters in quarries whisperer, but there the job is done for another day.

And so to end this special nuking the country edition with a catch-up of the latest special Pope and Rowe ...