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Well Canada needs more manufacturing; What products can Canada make and why and where would you sell it?

Remember that manufacturing now can be additive or subtractive (3D printing and machining)

Why was the 1950 and 60's technology so successful for America? I look at a car's alternator, back then if it broke it was likely the diode, you replaced the diode (10cent) and the alternator worked again. Now you pay for the whole alternator for about 150.00. Parts are more expensive for cars.

I like to dabble in wookworking. Wood is expensive, so are things like plastic sheets to make jigs in woodworking. The best plywood is baltic birtch... An 5 x 5 foot sheet can go from 50 to 100 depending on thickness. An 3/4 " 4 x 8 sheet of maple plywood runs around 70.00.

I don't see electric cars, being like the cars of the 50s, repairing them as they break down, finding parts in junk yard etc.
 
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Three things we Canadians need to get really world class at producing:

1) Construction. There are tons of infrastructure and buildings to be done and they have to be built here. But the system is full of waste and we can get way better at collaborative execution of projects in dynamic environments. Traditional bidding, contracting, and project management makes us weak. There is potential to reinvent stodgie old construction practices here in Canada and become a world leader.

2) Food. We grow and raise food in abundance here. There are lots of innovative food producers but we are not a global value-added food products powerhouse. Yet. We need to go bigger. Mega-size those fries, poutine them up to feed a hungry planet, and go for critical mass with our culinary capabilities. Up-market the Soylent Green if we need to.

3) Biotech. Margins vs. Labour cost could make Canada a player. We’ve got the research smarts but give away our knowledge to the world. Cluster smaller players in a DNA Delta to take our smaller players to the next level. Will take vision, commitment, alignment, and capital. Unfortunately our grey market weed growers and bong makers hold the seeds of innovation and know-how in a largely un-tapped pool of practical creativity. Go Edibles! We could rule this.

-Punt.
 
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"Up-market the Soylent Green if we need to. "

They'd never run out of raw material for the Soylent Green machines on the streets of Vancouver!
 
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It's not exactly manufacturing, but I'm surprised Canada does not host a lot more large-scale server farms (for cloud computing and such). Those use imense amounts of electricity, and one thing we have huge amounts of in some areas is clean electricity, and we are still one of the most high-tech countries in the world (despite our stingy telecom services). If they placed these facilities in more rural-ish places (like Prince George), they might be able to have a great competitive advantage.

Canada has also a good reputation in the nuclear industry. CANDU reactors are considered a very safe and versatile design, so I would not be surprised if Canada were to re-enter this field in a big way.

Canada should definitely invest way more in automation/robotics and AI. This could be the key to solving any long-term labour shortage, rather than just relying on mass immigration alone.
 
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rlock said:
Canada has also a good reputation in the nuclear industry. CANDU reactors are considered a very safe and versatile design, so I would not be surprised if Canada were to re-enter this field in a big way.
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Canada's nuclear technology is probably 50 years behind the Chinese technology. The Chinese released 2 new designs in 2018 alone. It would take a huge effort for Canada to catch up the the Chinese, and is like not possibly and almost certainly not practical. The Chinese are also first in building new reactors. At the start of 2019, 13 of the 57 reactors under construction globally were in China.

Below is a great summary of the current state of nuclear fission plants:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/infor...eration/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today.aspx

JD
 
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Bill Gates was supposed to be building a new type of nuc reactor in China, but Trump's trade war prevented it. (Bill Gates Brain on Netflix). It supposed to use up the used nuclear fuel from current US plants. Wonder how close to a CANDU it is?

Also a prototype from the 60/70's a Thorium Reactor. Supposed to be failsafe too.

Construction: like the idea of foam forms- just set up and pour cement. Mostly new house construction. Supposed to be cheaper than normal cement structure for houses. Contractors big thing is getting tradesmen and the supplies. The new tradesmen do good if they can add 3/4 + 1/4.

Food. Canada could become a world leader in this through greenhouses (metal and glass), new technology on dirtless roots system (fed nutrients by water), there is enough waste heat in cities in the winter to run a couple greenhouse like this.

Biotech are we talking plants/trees for food and wood, or health of human body (regrowing skin cells/replacing limbs etc). or using cows to produce spider webs material (yes there is such a project- spider web being stronger than steel)

Plastic production by product from the oil industry. stuff like acrylic sheets, lexan sheets. Law of supply and demand, more out there the cheaper it is.

Maybe a big 80,000 or 120,000 ton hammer for making steel.
 
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JimDandy said:
Canada's nuclear technology is probably 50 years behind the Chinese technology. The Chinese released 2 new designs in 2018 alone. It would take a huge effort for Canada to catch up the the Chinese, and is like not possibly and almost certainly not practical. The Chinese are also first in building new reactors. At the start of 2019, 13 of the 57 reactors under construction globally were in China.

Below is a great summary of the current state of nuclear fission plants:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/infor...eration/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today.aspx

JD
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The technology is current; the new generation designs of CANDU's are much improved over the ones operating today. (Plus, a lot of China's are actually CANDU's, built in partnership with Canada's.) We just haven't built any new nuclear power plants for ourselves in decades. Before too long, even the ones we have now will have to be retired and new ones built just to keep up the electricity supply at current levels.
 
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