There is no shortage of advice out there about how to decarbonize the economy. A lot of of it focuses on electricity, and power generation especially. This is natural—electric power generation is the world’s largest source category for anthropogenic carbon…
Category: Wind generation
Public perception, global warming, and nuclear power: playing the trump card
Did the recent weather catastrophe in the Philippines have anything to do with global warming? Great Britain’s prime minister thinks so. I won’t get into the scientific debate over whether it did. I will just point out that people think…
German electricity problems: why can’t they just conserve?
Ontario’s electricity is much cleaner than Germany’s. Here is a comparison of the carbon content per unit of electricity, from 2011: It is important to note that Germany’s 2011 CIPK of roughly 540 grams is based on CO2 emissions of…
McGuinty prorogues: a year to the day, and 9.4 MILLION tons of carbon pollution
The Ontario Liberals in the 2011 general election lost their majority position in the provincial legislature. This was because they lost a number of key rural districts into which their green energy policies had forced enormous and enormously inefficient wind…
Gas plant $1.1 billion cancellation fee: the cheapest part of “green” energy
Nearly a year ago, some high profile political careers ignominiously ended in Ontario. The province’s headlong embrace of “green” energy policies drove the former premier, Dalton McGuinty, from office. A couple of his ministers, including the energy minister, quit soon…