Sask's pro nuclear crowd is fond of citing the safe running of nuclear energy that powers the metropolis of Toronto. How big is Bruce? #skpoli
It was the world's largest fully operational nuclear generating station by total reactor count and the number of currently operational reactors until 2016, when it was exceeded in nameplate capacity by South Korea's Kori Nuclear Power Plant. #skpoli
Power plants and war zones are incompatible. The cost of securing one has to be figured into the levelized cost (LOLC) of the power they produce. #skpoli
Maybe it's just a prepper's mindset, but a power grid that coordinated a market of distributed power sources would be less of a target and vulnerability.
Minus 10 and I'm in front of my gas insert fireplace, warming up. I want to keep it. Hydrogen burns with a pale blue flame that is nearly invisible in daylight.
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There are many people in Saskatchewan, the current government foremost among them, who want to make a dash to nuclear power to solve the climate change problem. #skpoli
It's lazy thinking, and typical of this province to let the government go down a path of making huge malinvestments, because after all, it's easy spending someone else's money. There's a better way. #skpoli
"He turned on the insert gas fireplace. It burned with a pale blue flame with faint orange highlights that is nearly invisible in daylight, but it was 6:00 pm, mid winter Saskatchewan, and the fire was lovely in the dimmed living room. Demand for H is high and so are prices.
There is one reason only why the Sask Party is committed to building nuclear reactors: they want to preserve the monopoly they have on the production and sale of electricity through a highly centralized system. Saskatchewan has the highest power bills of any province. #skpoli
Monopolies, be they private or public ones, suffer the same deficiencies: they become rent seekers, they don't invest in new technologies and ultimately don't give their customers what they want. SaskPower is nothing less than a taxation arm of the province. #skpoli
When Scott Moe campaigns on a promise to reduce your electrical bill by 10% for one year, you can be sure you are not getting the true cost of that electricity. The small nuclear reactors he is proposing are far costlier than alternative means to generate electricty. #skpoli