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Coal: the missing link

26 May 2023

5:00 AM

26 May 2023

5:00 AM

Coal will be indispensable for electricity generation in Australia for the foreseeable future. Of its competitors; natural gas is much more expensive for base-load electricity (that is, continuous electricity); nuclear power is at least a decade away; and wind and solar energy are weather and cloud-dependent and thus unreliable. In addition, they are both proving expensive.

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