An iron rule exists in electric power generation systems. It is quite simple. It goes like this: if you take a source of 24/7 electricity out of a system, you must replace it with another source of 24/7 electricity. Put…
Category: Natural gas
Obama’s GHG reduction plan: kicking alcoholism by switching from wine to beer
Here’s a plan for kicking alcoholism. I’m curious to know what you think. Let’s say that in order to meet the Mayo Clinic’s recommendation to drink three liters of beverages per day, I drink 90 litres of wine per month.…
Canadian Federal Court must undertake its own Darlington nuclear reevaluation: nuclear “waste” versus fossil waste
Canada’s Federal Court, in issuing essentially a mild “back to the drawing board” order to Ontario Power Generation regarding one part of its application to build new nuclear reactors at its Darlington generation site, displayed a disappointingly common myopia when…
Climate change and Ontario electricity: federal court clarifies the choice
Should Ontario electricity stay as clean as it is right now? Right now (six thirty a.m. on Friday May 16), every kilowatt-hour of Ontario grid power comes with a carbon footprint of 38.5 grams; Table 1 on the left gives…
“Concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere are surpassing 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history”—Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A year ago, I published an article on the then-most-recent warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the rapidly increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in out planet’s atmosphere. Concentrations were nearing 400 parts per million (ppm)…