Climate change

Energy and carbon: keeping the natural balance

May 7, 2013
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Energy and carbon: keeping the natural balance

Of all the countries on earth, France is the only one with the foresight, confidence, and discipline to have recognized and then immediately implemented the right energy strategy during the existential economic upset that resulted from the 1973 oil crisis. Like every other modern country, France realized instantly, when Saudi Arabia began dramatically raising the…

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Wasting water: Ontario’s Environmental Disconnect of the Day

May 4, 2013
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Wasting water: Ontario’s Environmental Disconnect of the Day

Infra-red water faucets are now a fixture (pun intended) in many public washrooms. Everybody appears to have bought in to the conservation mantra: use as little as possible. Chief among the purveyors of the conservation ideology are the mainstream environmental organizations. These groups also push for renewable energy in the form of wind turbines and…

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Solar Soirée in Ottawa: a nuclear-powered anti-nuclear exhortation to use more fossil fuel

April 30, 2013
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Solar Soirée in Ottawa: a nuclear-powered anti-nuclear exhortation to use more fossil fuel

A soirée is an evening event, meaning that most soirées held in non-polar latitudes take place at a time when solar photovoltaic devices are not experiencing very many photon interactions and hence are generating very little if any electricity. So if you are throwing a soirée and need electricity, it’s wise to make sure the…

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How to create infrastructure jobs and pay for clean energy: public and private models deliver success in Ontario

April 4, 2013
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How to create infrastructure jobs and pay for clean energy: public and private models deliver success in Ontario

At its height, the nuclear refurbishment at the Bruce power plant on the east shore of Lake Huron was the biggest capital infrastructure project in Canada. It generated 3,000 jobs, mostly in the building and construction trades, at a time when jobs were scarce and urgently needed in Ontario. At the time the refurbishment project…

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Low carbon sustainability advocacy: walking the talk in Ottawa

March 28, 2013
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Low carbon sustainability advocacy: walking the talk in Ottawa

I often attend gatherings and events that have an environmental theme: it is not only part of my personal evangelism as an environmentalist and nuclear advocate, it is also simply enjoyable to discuss things with smart people who share some of my interests and concerns. Yesterday I attended a presentation that was somewhat different, in…

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Item 1: if Ontario did not have its nuclear generating fleet, last hour’s CO2 emissions would have been AT LEAST:

5,788 metric tons, and the CIPK would have been 395.9 grams

Item 2: Since prorogation of the Ontario legislature on October 15, 2012, provincial gas-fired generating plants have dumped this much CO2 into our air:

6,345,602 metric tons. This is a running total. Every hour, the total increases by the amount of Gas CO2 given in Table 1.

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