Oh Chuck.....

[binthere]

stiffening competition compliments of the tax payer sounds familiar.

[oneoff]

The horseshit above coming from the cut and paste service of someone who plans on burning all the fossil fuels that he may need "for a long time into the future"

His words printed numerous times lately.

So although there are staunch supporters who will lecture; they are certainly not those who lead.

Look at the powerhousesolar.ca for Ontario Hydro Solar PV for the month of January just finished.

A two week stretch of diffuse sunlight producing a fraction of a few measly Kwh from a bit of diffuse sunlight for a very limited number of hours. Just the example Western Canada should follow?
In case some haven't noticed; a certain Mr Trump praised good clean Kentucky coal and vowed to get those miners back on the job. And for those who are intent on making their economies uncompetitive and running on uncontrolled debt....does anyone think this economic plan will turn out well?????

I'm going back to sleep and quit wasting time on nonsense.

[chuckChuck]

What is wrong with cutting and pasting relevant articles? If you don't want to read them don't.

Before you make any decision do you rely on only what you know or do you do some research and get some analysis from other sources that have some expertise or opinions?

We have heard you argument about solar production in winter. This is not news.

What about wind? What is your analysis on the proposed Sask Power 1600 Mw of wind?

[chuckChuck]

Where is your leadership on coal? Are you using coal to heat your numerous houses and shops, dry your grain, power your farm machinery? If coal is so wonderful and cheap why are you not building a small scale coal burning generating station?

[bucket]

Coal plants run 24/7 rain or shine. ..with or without wind.....sun or no sun....pretty important for a industrialized country.

Even more important for a exporting nation like Canada. ...


It's really too bad that fukashima didn't have a small wave for them to make improvements to factor in a 1 in 1000 year tsunami.


Not sure if engineers factor for that....

Just a random thing that occurred that isn't textbook....until it happens.


Nuclear should be safe on the Canadian shield one would think....they mine it there. ...they could refine it and have it making power as well....


But you never can tell if something might go wrong up there as well....so coal is probably the best pick...near the coal mine....

[binthere]

small individually operated coal fired power supply is unsustainable as large solar or wind power is unsustainable or economically viable. now reverse this scenario and voila.

[chuckChuck]

Binthere, If wind is not viable why is Saskpower proposing 1600 Mw of wind capacity?

[chuckChuck]

I realize small scale coal generating is not feasible, but space heating with coal is still in use on farms.

[blackpowder]

Long pastes tend to not get read completely chuck.

Annoying thing about sovereignty, it allows you to do whatever you think is best for you. The Japanese must drag their knuckles too. But I guess they'll just develop better technology instead.
Sad their using their own numbers and not poor Oxfords. Funny how the books look when the artificial carbon market is ignored.
A lot of coal used to ship from the west coast to Japan. But look, we can all sit and wait for the magical cap and trade income to arrive, like Ontario.
Like a Disney script. Waiting for Tinkerbell.

[wakopa]

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Worldwide coal plants
And this doesn’t include the many in the U.S.A. A Google search suggests they have over 1300 plants.
….perhaps it may interest You…isn’t Canada nice ? or what !!!!…

Here's Just a small sample of how many coal plants are out there
EU has 468 plants building 27 more for a total of 495
Turkey has 56 plants building 93 more total 149
South Africa has 79 building 24 more total 103
India has 589 building 446 more total 1036
Philippines has 19 building60 more total 79
South Korea has 58 building 26 more total 84
Japan has 90 building 45 more total 135
CHINA has 2363 building 1171 total 3534
But here comes Canada to shut down our 5 plants and save the planet!

[oneoff]

My tolerance meter for those who can't/won't readily admit the foundation arguments that one should not expect to need to be arguable...is wearing mighty thin.

When something like solar (at approx 15%) or even wind (at maybe 60% on a good stretch) obviously still needs a 100% backup from some other energy source (for 85% or 40%of time)...then please quit pushing so hard.

Its a whole like organic food production .....promoted as 100% safe...the nutrition source of the future..and it probably represents 1% of American continent food and couldn't be ramped up fast enough if promoters ever got what they are pushing for.

It would serve us right if we did end up in your ideal world. In the meantime your're talking about 1% of food and energy......and not even close to being reliable sources for even 1 per cent of food or energy.

When it does come; it will not be attributable to your ignoble efforts

[biglentil]

Chuck let me guess you have never used solar panels or wind turbines. Just preconceived romantic notions of how great it is. Wind turbines never hold up. The wind is gusty and not always from the same direction. The loads placed on the turbine and housing are tremendous. Bird kill is a big problem. Then there is the "noise".


Solar is great until you get a week without sun. Snow, ice, dirt reduce its poor efficency to next to nothing. Hail in the end will inevitably turn it into a junk pile. A typical panel requires almost an ounce of silver. Silver demand is multiples of supply for some time. Where is all this silver going to come from? Leave the solar panels for calculators.