Coal and nuke – the runaway winners in sustainable labour costs!
From a mailer by a group of lifetime Saskatchewan anti-nukes currently calling themselves “Renewable Power – the intelligent choice”.
Coal and nuke – the runaway winners in sustainable labour costs!
From a mailer by a group of lifetime Saskatchewan anti-nukes currently calling themselves “Renewable Power – the intelligent choice”.
mhb,
Since you brought up Frederic Bastiat, here’s his essay on What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html
Kate, you missed another great energy anf job creation scheme:
10 billion employed on human treadmills – connected to electricity generators, of course.
Seriously, though, folks, this is just a bit of green opportunistic propaganda. They are pointing out the virtue of inefficiency of green power just so they can, perhaps, sway a few unemployed, or those concerned about their jobs.
And it is not a political movement???
tilting at windmills – don quixote lives.
we can spontaneously break out in one voice raising up our collective voices in an emotional refrain of ‘the impossible dream”, or remind individuals that critical thinking has brought us to this point and now is not a good time to abandon the time-honoured process.
it’s a small comfort, but reassuring to see the latter in action.
Proof positive that market theory should be a mandatory subject in school right along side evolution.
A pollster for Environment Canada asked me if I was going to get rid of my truck for an fuel saving car. I told him as soon as he and his buddies tied their bikes up to my trailer and pulled it. I even promised not to whip them very hard if they could maintain at least 40KmH. He said keep the truck.
These are just modern-day Luddites
And yet they accuse anyone questioning AGW as being Luddites. Strange how that happens, eh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
The problem with renewables by pepster:
Wind – only runs between 20 km/hr and 50 km/hr. Anything lower will not allow syncronization (60 HZ) anything above 50 Km/hr current vibration becomes a problem. Below -30 they are shut down. To cold to run.
Solar – it is only light out 50% of the time. Winter it is less. Need to factor in Dust and snow for efficency.
Currently no batteries are availabe to store excess power generation. that is fact.
Hydro – in Sask. only 50-100 Mw is available for expansion.
Two choices, Coal or nuke for base load generation.
(sniff) It’s a beautiful thing…to read a posting by someone who understands the broken windows fallacy, on the assumption that I, too am not an idiot.
“The new ‘good’ job: 12 bucks an hour
In the Midwest, communities race to replace dwindling auto jobs with renewable energy ones, but workers will have to sacrifice on their pay.”
http://tinyurl.com/qhe2kt
I’d love to see how they developed those numbers. I expect that if you totalled all jobs created by mining uranium and engineering, manufacturing and building a nuclear plant plus the operating and maintenance thereof we would see a much larger number. The same goes for coal. I believe the number of jobs they say are created by wind is completely bogus.
gives new meaning to pedal your ass.
“a country like Canada that spends billions and billions of dollars each year on the k-12 and the post-secondary education systems
Posted by: Maureen at June 5, 2009 5:20 PM”
And to the benefit of all Canadians they provide us with an unlimited supply of Sociologists, Psychologists, community out reach workers, History majors, English Majors, and the most prized of all … teachers of the philosophy of Marxism. Real wealth creators that bunch.
I know this goes against the general opinion of most people who read this blog, but there are simply too many people on this planet for us all to have a middle class standard of living.
We are either all eventually going to wind up in co-ops or mud huts or some such. There simply is not enough to go around for 8 or 10 billion carbon units. Plus a lot of people on this planet really hate and want to kill a lot of other people on this planet. That makes for an unsustainable world.
I am aware that god allegedly stated that we should go forth an multiply, but in those days we didn’t understand mathematics all that well.
Anyone?
The main reason the lefties/greenies really hate/fear nuclear is not out of fear of radiation…..it is because they know it is safe, works, and is reliable and that threatens their agenda to rule a world of people shivering in a cave.
Posted by: renew-this
“these kind of stats are probably true with ANY new technology. probably true about the STILL expotentially expensive nuclear way. any numbers of the cost of generating power for the above selection? dont forget all the ‘debt retirement’ add-ons as seen on ontari-ari-ario hydro bills.”
Actually nuclear is not that expensive based upon installed capacity……1/3 of wind.
The difference is that a nuke plant produces a s**tload of power and wind just kills birds.
Yeah……that debt retirement charge……Is that for generation or distribution?