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So the homeowners are not going to be making money. The green energy companies seem to be going bust at an alarming rate. Hydro ratepayers are getting screwed. The point of all this is to reward certain government friends with sweetheart deals.
I don't think many homeowners care. Many are locked into long term contracts at fixed rates for natural gas and electricity. Those who don't have a natural gas contract in this area are paying a lower price than many with contracts pay.
With hydro, if the price of oil stays high or goes higher, solar will likely pick back up a bit.
With natural gas, as far as I know, Union Gas and Enbridge here in Ontario are required to pass through the actual cost of the natural gas without a mark up. They make the money on the transmission. If homeowners arrange their own gas supplier they pay the contracted price PLUS the transmission charge. The latest charge for natural gas from the utility is approx. 11.8 cents a cu. meter.
Another topic is if drilling for dry gas in North America is viable in this low price environment. I don't think so.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
March 12th today, looks like winter is over...
Forecasts Monday Mar 12th to Saturday March 17th
High (Low)
Ottawa 11(4), 12(2), 9(0), 14(5), 13(6), 14(6) Normal is 2(-7)
Vancouver 6(2), 5(2), 6(4), 7(5), 7(3), 7(1) Normal is 10(3)
Montreal 11(4), 11(3), 7(1), 11(4), 13(6), 14(7) Normal is 2(-6)
Toronto 12(9), 14(2), 14(5), 17(11), 18(10), 15(9) Normal is 4(-5)
Winnipeg 6(-2), 11(4), 11(-1), 13(2), 17(8), 22(13) Normal is -1(-11)
Ottawa will be warmer than Southern California later this week...
Add your highs, lows, normals from where you live...
Forecasts Monday Mar 12th to Saturday March 17th
High (Low)
Ottawa 11(4), 12(2), 9(0), 14(5), 13(6), 14(6) Normal is 2(-7)
Vancouver 6(2), 5(2), 6(4), 7(5), 7(3), 7(1) Normal is 10(3)
Montreal 11(4), 11(3), 7(1), 11(4), 13(6), 14(7) Normal is 2(-6)
Toronto 12(9), 14(2), 14(5), 17(11), 18(10), 15(9) Normal is 4(-5)
Winnipeg 6(-2), 11(4), 11(-1), 13(2), 17(8), 22(13) Normal is -1(-11)
Ottawa will be warmer than Southern California later this week...
Add your highs, lows, normals from where you live...
Winter is normally beat by the third week in Feb. in these parts. The average daytime temp starts to get higher.
The upside of the warmer temperatures is less fuel is burned to heat homes.
You haven't given an opinion on the robocall issue. Here in the provincai election the robocalls were merciless, although they had nothing to do with tying to fool me about where to vote. Only to promote the candidate. It was all hours of the day. I don't recall getting any during the federal election. I like to nap and the automated calls woke me up.
Problems voting is kind of built in. They have used the same spot for at least 30 years. It has 3 polls. It wasn't bad when I was younger but now the long walk during the day is a problem. The school parking lot is filled up during the day so it's a long walk. In the evening after dinner I like to watch TV and read. I understand the turnout there is not very high. There's a community center with lots of parking closer than the school so it's not like they can't do better for the voters. They simply don't want to do better.
And let's not forget nuclear energy....talk about a virtually inexhaustible energy source.
It is the decommissioning costs which are worrisome and the fact that they tend to fall apart quicker than one might hope they would after spending billions to build them.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
I wonder if Gary still thinks that this is a "normal" March. How about Vlad? Is anyone wondering what this means for the summer temperatures? Or food production?
I wonder if Gary still thinks that this is a "normal" March. How about Vlad? Is anyone wondering what this means for the summer temperatures? Or food production?
Even climate researchers admit that anyone using the weather factors this unscientific way is not quite right.
I wonder if Gary still thinks that this is a "normal" March. How about Vlad? Is anyone wondering what this means for the summer temperatures? Or food production?
In a post a few above this we discussed the temperature in March 2000. Drawing long term conclusions based on short term weather is not an exact science.
It is the decommissioning costs which are worrisome and the fact that they tend to fall apart quicker than one might hope they would after spending billions to build them.
True, but surely the ever-adaptable human race will work hard to find better, safer, and more efficient ways to use this energy source. :)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
The ever-adaptable human race can adapt when the rate of the changes is within limits; not so clear when the rates are too abrupt. To think otherwise is likely vanity...
True, but surely the ever-adaptable human race will work hard to find better, safer, and more efficient ways to use this energy source. :)
I think that they already have found "better, safer, and more efficient ways" but the idea of nuclear power summons up a great deal of opposition that many politicians would prefer to avoid dealing with.
I think that they already have found "better, safer, and more efficient ways" but the idea of nuclear power summons up a great deal of opposition that many politicians would prefer to avoid dealing with.
The Americans are still using a Gaseous diffusion (1940's technology) for making the SWU's for their light water reactors. Most others have started using Centrifuge technology. The plant using it also buys SWU's from Russia and will for some time. Even after the Megatons to Megawatts program finishes. They refuel about half the nuclear reactors in the U.S. and about a quarter of the ones in the world from what I know. And that includes reactors in Japan.
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