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Blather and risk: one short jerk’s take on Tesla’s most important “business model”

by Stephen E. Aplin • January 14, 2019 • 4 Comments

Much is written about Tesla’s apparently vastly overvalued stock price. Most commentators are all over the company’s obvious shortcomings—and especially its consistent failure to produce either vehicles or earnings on target. Many commendators, including me, assess Tesla’s valuation as the…

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Pipe dream at Moss Landing: another reason Ontario was smart to get out of the Western Climate Initiative

by Stephen E. Aplin • November 26, 2018 • 8 Comments

Moss Landing unit 7 was a California steam cycle electricity generator that ran on natural gas. Its nameplate capacity was 739 megawatts. That meant that its operator could have run it at or near capacity, i.e. at 739 MW, for…

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e-bikes, energy conservation, and a missed made-in-Ontario opportunity for clean transpo

by Stephen E. Aplin • November 14, 2018 • 2 Comments

“Conservation First,” a mantra of the current Ontario government’s predecessor, was in that government’s hands little more than a vacuous new age slogan, which served a dual political purpose: virtue signalling to self-styled greens, i.e. “progressive” voters, for whom energy…

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The business of green energy: Ford vs the banks (and NDP)

by Stephen E. Aplin • September 20, 2018 • 3 Comments

Almost immediately after the June 7 provincial general election, Ontario’s new government cancelled an array of so-called green energy projects. The one that has so far gotten the most attention was White Pines, a wind turbine development in Prince Edward…

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The unintended consequences of green energy: or, why Oakville is in Napanee

by Stephen E. Aplin • September 17, 2018 • 1 Comment

As of around mid-August 2018, a former chief of staff of a former Ontario premier had spent four months in jail for his part in a fiasco known as the Gas Plant Scandal. This fiasco involved the politically motivated cancellation,…

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Climate change ironies in Canada: choosing the devil’s excrement over God’s gift

by Stephen E. Aplin • September 5, 2018 • 1 Comment

Oh the ironies. The Canadian Federal Court ruling on the Trans Mountain pipeline Thursday last week is brimming with them. The current federal government won the election of 2015 in part because of its resounding promise of a major departure…

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Item A1 Current concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere:
0.00 parts per million
In the last hour:
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 53.8 % of total electrical power generated in-province.
  • 94.9 % of Ontario-generated electricity was carbon-free.
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 56.7 % of Ontario's carbon-free electricity.
Table A1: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, in hour preceding 09:05 EST on Feb 23 2019
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 9,089 0
Hydro 4,848 0
Gas 784 293
Wind 2,365 0
Biofuel 18 18
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 606 0
TOTAL 17,709 312
CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 18.46 grams.
Table A2: Total Ontario generation, and related CO2 emissions, midnight to 09:05 EST on Feb 23 2019
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 90,876 0
Hydro 43,210 0
Gas 10,905 4,112
Wind 13,287 0
Biofuel 86 86
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 1,370 0
TOTAL 158,502 4,208
Average CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) over period: 26.74 grams
This content is updated at 50 minutes past the hour. Refresh at that time to see latest available data. Sources: www.ieso.ca and EmissionTrak™
Table A3 Should we replace nuclear plants with natural gas-fired ones? This table compares actual Ontario grid CO2 emissions from the last hour with those from a grid in which gas has replaced nuclear.
Actual Ontario grid Gas replaces nuclear
312 5,311
18.46 314.22
Tons CO2
CIPK, grams
If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO2 to fill Rogers Centre 1.8 times. As it was, 312 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.1 times.

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