Prairie Clean Energy

[WiltonRanch]

Heard an advertisement on my local radio station for this company. They’re having a meeting in town this week about their deal. Another straw burning deal by the looks of it. Does anyone ever tell these guys about drought, semi dwarf varieties, better residue management, and building organic matter? Maybe they could take the defunct straw board plants and convert them over. There’s a ready supply of bales there already to burn.

[Guest]

There will be lots of liberal “free” money hanging in the balance
Maybe they need to talk to a cowboy anywhere and he can explain to them how hard it is to get straw?

[fjlip]

Similar to BURNING life giving trees for electricity?

[WiltonRanch]

Classic pump and dump to secure govt funding or to dupe naive investors. Speaking of which f’n’eh is having a meeting about an ammonia plant. Christ you’d think they ran out of suckers. God I hate to see people get took by these scams.

[Blaithin]

Local county having meetings about building a nuclear plant. That would be world changing there. Hard to even imagine the implications that could have.

Much more profound than the wind and solar popping up, and the straw plants that come and go.

[blackpowder]

Which county?

Never grew flax.
Is it really still just burned?
Neighbor always bales and sells it.
Company website sounds all too familiar.

[Blaithin]

Starland.

[WiltonRanch]

The amount of uranium we have in this country and we’re spinning our wheelS spending billions on lower output intermittent sources or pie in the sky things liking burning straw.

[furrowtickler]

The amount of uranium we have in this country and we’re spinning our wheelS spending billions on lower output intermittent sources or pie in the sky things liking burning straw.

Absolutely spot on

[Guest]

Which county?

Never grew flax.
Is it really still just burned?
Neighbor always bales and sells it.
Company website sounds all too familiar.

every bit gets burned here unless a honey guy needs a few bales

[chuckChuck]

SMRS are the most expensive option. None have been built or licensed in Canada. Ontario will maybe be the first and come on line much later than planned. Everybody else will wait and watch to see how much over budget they are. Alberta and Saskatchewan will subsidize the hell out of them, even though they don't pick winners and losers! LOL

[furrowtickler]

Add up what it costs for all this intermittent power like wind and solar is costing, has cost , and will cost , then times by 2 because it’s only producing 1/2 the time or less
So nuclear maybe cheaper option , and it will be 24/7 , 365 days a year , emissions free . What is the cost of the new generation smaller nuclear plants ? Are they really cost prohibitive, or is that just a crutch used by those heavily invested in wind and solar ?
don’t know , but it’s an extremely valid question.

keep solar and wind for window dressing intermittent use , that’s all it’s good for but stop pouring billions of tax payers money into something that can’t supply reliable constant power during a Canadian winter or at times even summer .. it’s absurd already .

[furrowtickler]

Local county having meetings about building a nuclear plant. That would be world changing there. Hard to even imagine the implications that could have.

Much more profound than the wind and solar popping up, and the straw plants that come and go.

Keep us updated on those meetings please if you don’t mind
would be great to hear about the real numbers involved in that proposed project .

[chuckChuck]

We can maximize wind and solar at higher levels than now. Make sure there is reliable backup when needed and over time storage will become a better option and that will help.

Both Alberta and Saskatchewan are both installing solar and wind under the AESO and Sask powers management. How much more will work? That's a good question. Some countries have larger percentages than we do. So we can probably still add more without risking supply shortages.

Remember the grid in Canada is out of date in many ways. The smart grid that's coming will help manage more renewables effectively.

[furrowtickler]

A lot of assumptions there , that may or may not turn out .
nuclear works and nothing more efficient than small nuclear reactors. The US navy is proof of that .