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The “green” grocer’s lucrative side-business: Merry Christmas, low-income Ontarians

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 20, 2017 • 12 Comments

As we all head into the allegedly merriest but unquestionably darkest part of the northern hemisphere year, it might be instructive to read, critically, between the lines and past the buzzwords, the self-congratulatory (and effective) 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Report…

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Ottawa Food Bank: does cold weather + high electricity prices = new clients?

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 13, 2017 • 5 Comments

The Ottawa Community Food Bank’s client list is doing what I and my fellow consultants always wish our client lists were doing more of: growing. I doubt the OCFB is happy like I am when my client list grows by…

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Ontario’s real energy peaks, stated and understated: today’s focus, Thunder Bay

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 11, 2017 • 2 Comments

Outside temperatures in Thunder Bay Ontario at around 7:30 local time this morning are -14°C, which with the windchill feels like -20°C. It’s probably safe to say that most of Thunder Bay’s 121,000 residents are indoors: either inside the city’s…

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Yawning China dominates Bitcoin mining with cheap baseload electricity: Canada can help

by Stephen E. Aplin • December 7, 2017 • 2 Comments

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Green energy, the Green Party, and Germany’s governance crisis: the McGuinty Syndrome?

by Stephen E. Aplin • November 20, 2017 • 2 Comments

Dalton McGuinty, Ontario’s most recent former premier, might have in mid-2011 whispered a rueful warning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the political wisdom of green energy: “note the world values survey when it comes to paying money to help…

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The Iron Chancellor and the Iron Rule: Merkel struggles to explain reality to game-theorizing Greens

by Stephen E. Aplin • November 17, 2017 • 1 Comment

Angela Merkel is as dexterous and tough in domestic affairs as Bismarck was in foreign affairs, so I mean no disrespect to her or any German when I give her Bismarck’s nickname The Iron Chancellor. I mean quite the opposite:…

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Item A1 Current concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere:
414.99 parts per million
In the last hour:
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 100 % of total electrical power generated in-province.
  • 100 % of Ontario-generated electricity was carbon-free.
  • Nuclear reactors contributed 100 % of Ontario's carbon-free electricity.
Table A1: Total Ontario generation and related CO2, by fuel, in the hour preceding 12:05 on 2023-03-20
FUEL MWh CO2, tons
Nuclear 4,934 0
Hydro 0 0
Gas 0 0
Wind 0 0
Biofuel 0 0
Oil & Gas 0 0
Solar 0 0
TOTAL 4,934 0
CO2 intensity per kWh (CIPK) in the last hour: 0.00 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
0 2,714
0.00 550.00
Tons CO2
CIPK, grams
If gas had replaced nuclear last hour, Ontario power plants would have dumped enough CO2 to fill Rogers Centre 0.9 times. As it was, 0 tons were dumped, which would fill Rogers Centre 0.0 times.

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