{"id":7107,"date":"2013-03-22T03:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2013-03-22T03:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T07:35:48","slug":"exploding-australias-nuclear-delusion-business-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/exploding-australias-nuclear-delusion-business-spectator\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploding Australia&#8217;s nuclear delusion | Business Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Russell writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>France has been producing most of its electricity using nuclear power stations for an average carbon dioxide intensity of about 80 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (gm-CO2\/kWh) for two decades. In that time, Australia&#8217;s electricity has just gotten dirtier, rising from 817 in 1990 to 841 gm-CO2\/kWh in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.Switzerland and Sweden have been using a mix of hydro and nuclear to achieve even lower carbon dioxide intensity than France.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/www.businessspectator.com.au\/article\/2013\/3\/22\/energy-markets\/exploding-australias-nuclear-delusion'>Exploding Australia&#039;s nuclear delusion | Business Spectator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Russell writes: France has been producing most of its electricity using nuclear power stations for an average carbon dioxide intensity of about 80 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (gm-CO2\/kWh) for two decades. In that time, Australia&#8217;s electricity has just gotten dirtier, rising from 817 in 1990 to 841 gm-CO2\/kWh in 2010. &#8230;.Switzerland and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/exploding-australias-nuclear-delusion-business-spectator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploding Australia&#8217;s nuclear delusion | Business Spectator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,22,33],"tags":[723,2515],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz-countries-regions","category-other","category-uk-europe-countries-regions","tag-coal","tag-nuclear-energy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Exploding Australia&#039;s nuclear delusion | Business Spectator - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exploding Australia&#039;s nuclear delusion | Business Spectator - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Geoff Russell writes: France has been producing most of its electricity using nuclear power stations for an average carbon dioxide intensity of about 80 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (gm-CO2\/kWh) for two decades. 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