Am I the only person who thinks John Horgan is a fucking idiot for moving forward with construction on the Site C dam?
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We need hydro dude. Coal and fossil fuels are the past. Got a better location? Let’s hear it. In the end, running our province on rainfall is as mainstream as green power gets. All those Tesla’s need juice. They’ll ammortize the capex over 50-100 years.
I’d like to see them do another big hydro project right after, and help our neighbours go greener. Look south—coal coal coal. Not good.
I’d like to see them do another big hydro project right after, and help our neighbours go greener. Look south—coal coal coal. Not good.
Most likely you will have some people agreeing with you .
I'm not one of them . Billions spent which means there's no backing down now.... otherwise we will have nothing to show for . At least for a few more billions will have a producing dam that will pay for itself and even be profitable. It was not the best location to start with , they went for convenience instead of selecting the most appropriate location for a dam (specially geologically $$$ ) .
Actually... the future is not in hydro, that's the present. The future is in distributed energy resources.
Having said that, way too much work was already done on Site C to stop work. It was a waste of money to look into this as an election promise, but I understand the need to do it in order to keep the "voters" happy.
Having said that, way too much work was already done on Site C to stop work. It was a waste of money to look into this as an election promise, but I understand the need to do it in order to keep the "voters" happy.
Pass the doobie bro. Solar is good for off-grid. Wind is good for coastal and farms. Both are drops in the bucket for the next 50-100 years. Non-dispensible power is a top-up strategy at best. Fancy terms don’t change their puny reality. Bio-mass / methane has its own issues—smells shutting down waste gas facilities.
We either harness rainfall or burn non-renewable resources for the majority of electricity consumption. The physics don’t givea fuk about the impracticality of pipe dreams.
With electric cars comiing into fashion and the increase in hydro usage by home owners, the province will need extra electrical. Look to see other dams going up in the next 10 years. The thing is the cost and distance to transfer electricity from nothern BC.
The future should be renewables, but you will see nuclear (fisson) in Canada in the next 20 years to make up demand in eastern Canada and in ONtario and Quebec. Nuclear will be the option in the US too.
Fusion power (from hydrogen) is still experimental to see if they can make a workable one.
If you can fiqure out how to start a nuclear fusion reaction without the gravity and weight of mass and heat of a star and do that on earth.... well that would solve an energy crisis....
Those crude lines coming from Alberta could be good for plastic making, and chemical making. Something that should be set up (like factories for making plastics, acyrilic sheets and polycarbonate), in the lower mainland due to water resources.
The future should be renewables, but you will see nuclear (fisson) in Canada in the next 20 years to make up demand in eastern Canada and in ONtario and Quebec. Nuclear will be the option in the US too.
Fusion power (from hydrogen) is still experimental to see if they can make a workable one.
If you can fiqure out how to start a nuclear fusion reaction without the gravity and weight of mass and heat of a star and do that on earth.... well that would solve an energy crisis....
Those crude lines coming from Alberta could be good for plastic making, and chemical making. Something that should be set up (like factories for making plastics, acyrilic sheets and polycarbonate), in the lower mainland due to water resources.
I agree with Charlene here. Communities are being destroyed. You know why? It’s not because we need the power. We have lots. We produce surplus energy so the province can make money by selling it to our neighbours to the south.
It’s not power generation, it is revenue generation.
https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-a...ports-from-b-c-california-are-increasing.html
It’s not power generation, it is revenue generation.
https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-a...ports-from-b-c-california-are-increasing.html
I think it'll still pay for itself as we sell CO2-free power to Alberta and the states at increased rates as carbon prices jack up. But it's clearly not a great site or a well-planned project.
Still better than trying to build solar in BC though.
Still better than trying to build solar in BC though.
Sad but true.
I'm hoping the West Moberly First Nations have success with their lawsuit.
Gordon Campbell's idea + Christy Clark's idiocy = John Horgan's legacy
I hope your great grandchildren enjoy subsidizimg this idiotic project a hundred years from now!
I hope your great grandchildren enjoy subsidizimg this idiotic project a hundred years from now!
Site C will not pay for itself.
With the newly revised 16 billion dollar estimate, that puts the cost of a produced megawatt at around $140. Right now, you'd be lucky to get $55 on the open market.
Of course, that's at full capacity, which will never happen due to the shale river beds that will start collapsing when they fill the resevoir...
Yeah after running the numbers this is starting to look pretty damn un-economic. bleh.
Look at the uproar caused by the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline among the liberal eco crazed greenies. Don’t think building a nuclear power plant in BC would go over too well.
Sorry don't agree at all. The future is in solar or wind. Look at what Alberta did in the southern part of the Province. Converted huge areas to wind and was able to eliminate the use of coal as well as sell excess power to the States. That's the future.
Really? I think the people in Fukashima, Japan, might disagree.
https://www.world-nuclear.org/infor...ety-of-plants/fukushima-daiichi-accident.aspx
Yes, that was outdated technology. There’s lots of evidence that it was poorly maintained and not up to code.
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