Quebec Energy Rationing

[jazz]

Well look at that. All that expensive hydro Alberta paid for isnt up to the job.

Quebec says it is 15-20yrs away from another hydro project (basically admitting another hydro dam will never be built in this country), instead needs 8000 windmills in the meantime and a 50% increase in baseload. Look at all those hill tops sc****d off for windmills with powerlines trenched up to each one. What an ugly site.

Meanwhile Quebecers asked to skip showers. LOL

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[jazz]

[furrowtickler]

A 50% increase in base load eh ?
That be nuclear or gas power .
Gas would be by far the quickest, but oh ya , they won’t approve western Canadian pipelines .
Oh well , wood pallets from trees should work . BC has zero issue with that idea .

[sumdumguy]

They could always rub sticks together or gather cow pies.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

They could always rub sticks together or gather cow pies.

That literally is the default option for a large portion of the worlds population if we continue to deny them the right to access clean affordable fossil fuel or nuclear energy. With the associated dire health and environmental consequences. This is even happening in Central and Eastern Europe right now. Talk about progress.

[chuckChuck]

Renewables are the cheapest option for more new capacity so says the International Energy Agency.

But you seem to be stuck in the past.

[jazz]

Renewables are the cheapest option for more new capacity so says the International Energy Agency.

But you seem to be stuck in the past.

Good parrot, thanks for chiming in.

Quebecs population fell in the last census, so why is it short power now. Whats going to charge all those EVs.

What a farce.

SaskEnergy and SaskPower have never asked me to turn my thermostat down or do dishes at midnight.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Renewables are the cheapest option for more new capacity so says the International Energy Agency.

But you seem to be stuck in the past.

You just keep parroting this same line over and over, as if that will somehow make it come true. And you still can't find any instance of this cheaper option not causing significantly higher prices for consumers?

And you are back to confusing capacity, for generation. Remember, as I pointed out, solar in Alberta having a capacity factor of 15.6 percent.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

You just keep parroting this same line over and over, as if that will somehow make it come true. And you still can't find any instance of this cheaper option not causing significantly higher prices for consumers?

And you are back to confusing capacity, for generation. Remember, as I pointed out, solar in Alberta having a capacity factor of 15.6 percent.

Claiming that an unpredictable unreliable system reliant upon the whims of nature is the cheapest CAPACITY, as opposed to cheapest GENERATION, is literally the equivalent to claiming that relying on rainfall to irrigate dryland crops is the cheapest capacity of irrigation, compared to installing predicatable, reliable, energy intensive irrigation systems. It is absolutely true. And completely useless in the real world where water is needed at the right time and place and quantity, not 6 months later, or a county over, or in a torrential downpour.

[RD414]

Well I’m going to try some solar. Might as well, fell for the geothermal farce, that and living in the province with the highest cost per kilowatt hour in southern Canada, I’ve got to do something.