The Toronto Sun reports that the Ontario Government is spending $180 million of our tax dollars to relocate a 300 MegaWatt gas-fired electrical plant originally planned to be built in Mississauga. Earlier the Ontario Government scrapped plans to build a 800 MegaWatt gas-fired plant in Oakville, after protests from citizens.
The Bio-En plant is only a mere 3 MegaWatts in comparison. If the Ontario Government can spend $180 million to move a 300 MW plant, surely it can spend $1.8 million to move a puny 3 MW plant? I expect that if Bio-En had $1.8 million available, they’d be able to build just about anywhere else.
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G’Day! Bob Jonkman,
Interesting Thoughts, On November 4, in addition to voting for the president and other legislators, the citizens of San Francisco will be asked to vote on Proposition H, otherwise known as the “San Francisco Clean Energy Act.”
It would amend the city and county charter “to require the city to transition from fossil fuels to clean, non-nuclear, sustainable energy production at affordable rates.” With this vote, if successful, the city will abandon the use of any energy afforded by coal, natural gas, and, as noted, nuclear power.
Electricity is measured in kilowatts-hours. America’s 104 commercial nuclear power reactors now provide about 20% of its electricity. More than 50% is produced primarily by 400-plus coal-fired “fossil fuel” producers of electricity, providing more than 2,000 billion kilowatt-hours of reliable energy. Hydroelectric and gas-powered plants constitute the rest of the mix.
Solar and wind power constitute about 1% of the electrical energy produced from these two inefficient, impractical, and spectacularly idiotic sources of power.
What the citizens of San Francisco and, for that matter, the rest of the nation, don’t understand is that even in the best locations, wind turbines produce power only about one-third of the time. When they cease to produce sufficient electrical power, a back-up coal-fired or nuclear plant has to be in place to meet the immediate needs of energy consumers. Comparably, solar power depends on the sun shining. Occasionally clouds obscure the sun. At night, it is shining somewhere else on Earth.
Keep up the good work
Hi Bob Jonkman,
On a similar note,, Politicians are refusing to allow utility companies to build coal fired power plants due to the greenhouse gas scare. If they have to build natural gas fired electrical generation plants, won’t the fuel cost double?
All the Best