Dear EFF, it’s time for radical renewable transformation - The Mail & Guardian

shows that a transition to a renewable energy system can lower the cost of energy by 25% compared to sticking with a polluting coal system. It would also make our energy system more reliable , save 196-billion litres of water a year, and remove our biggest source of air, water and climate pollution.

The world is undergoing a renewable energy revolution with prices of clean technologies such as solar and wind plummeting. In the face of this reality, the EFF’s proposal for so-called “clean coal” will lock us into an uneconomic and polluting power source for decades. What’s more, whereas renewables can be rapidly brought online, coal would take many years, thus leaving us languishing in load-shedding for years to come.

Apart from hypocrisy on the question of privatisation, it seems the EFF might also be fighting for freedom from economic reality, too. Nuclear power plants have proven simplyWhat’s worse is that, after 25 years, the EFF wants the private sector to hand over the nuclear plants to government ownership. That’s towards the end of the

of an average nuclear plant, when hugely expensive upgrading, retirement or decommissioning costs tend to come in. So the government would get stuck with owning aging and deeply uneconomic plants. While Shivambu has previously called for the government to “massively invest in renewable energy”, it seems like the EFF wants to have its cake and eat it too.

RET shit. I mean it.

Alexlenferna blocked us, constant lies from these white Energy lobbyists SiphoKings

Simple & unambiguous. Don't know why with do much proximity to research students, why the EFF isn't tapping on that to harness their position. I am for energy mix now and gradual transition into the future. Although there isn't clean coal, good quality coal will be too costly

We can't trust anything from you nina, we recognise IsolezweNews how can we trust people who publish news that are not verified. Media credibility is under scrutiny and just not reliable at all nowadays.

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