Turns out there’s a new development out of the story that took place on Monday.
Justin Trudeau on Monday didn’t think much of Saskatchewan’s clean energy projects.
On that very day, characterized by fog throughout much of southern Saskatchewan (where the wind turbines are located), SaskPower’s total wind power generation fell to “-1 megawatt,” as in negative one megawatt, according to the Crown corporation’s Where Does Your Power Come From web page. This is the lowest number Pipeline Online has seen since the page went online in September, 2022. It’s also an average throughout the entire day, not just at a particular moment.
According to SaskPower, “The turbines were iced up and unable to produce. The -1 megawatt was load to service the facilities.”
Saskatchewan has 617 megawatts of installed grid-scale wind power generation.
Also, SaskPower is now paying people extra just to stay in Coronach instead of walking away early from the doomed coal plant.
Our Prime Minstrel just keeps blundering along, clueless of real sciences such as physics and thermodynamics.
Thank God someone at McGill had the balls to flunk him out of 1st year Engineering despite his famous McGill alumni father. Who knows what harm he could have done as a barely sentient engineer?
Hell, look how much damage he’s been able to accomplish as a barely sentient peoplekind!
Greg61…Pierre Eliot Trudeau did not attend McGill university.
He was educated at the Jesuit Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf; Université de Montréal; Harvard University; and the London School of Economics…a Commie through and through.
But, but, but…FEEEEELZ!!!
But the Cult members just adore him. They don’t care he is an empty head, he’s such a dreamy dreamboat.
The cult members are and shall remain oblivious to ROI.
Return on input,no windfarm yet,has generated enough usable energy to pay back the energy consumed to construct it.
And as they age,they consume ever more ,increasing their over all energy drain..
Meaning?
We would have been better off burning that energy directly,to produce electric power.
Which would have been cheaper electricity.
Guaranteed reliable ..ON DEMAND..power..
With no monument to insanity to clean up..
The stupid..It burns..Us right in our wallets.
Would have been better to have built reactors and the infrastruture to go with them.
Negative load – best describes Liberal/NDP voters on the nation.
Has the installed wind farms ever reached their full nameplate capacity? for an hour? for a day? for a week?
/no
Same with solar. Never ever comes anywhere near to claimed nameplate potential. “Every little helps”. Until it doesn’t.
More energy required to make the crap than will ever produce.
But some hucksters, politicians and bureaucrats became very wealthy in the acquisition and installation of same.
Well you can’t manufacture or install more giant fans and sun-plates without power to do so. When the very thing they are trying to install is incapable of providing the means to create more it seems to me it would be a case of costing more than it is worth. How many years before the output pays for itself… likely not before they stop working or need replaced. So when are people going to wake up and realize that this push for Green is just another excuse to line government pockets? Maybe they will freeze to death before they wake up? Realistically there isn’t a single government party that will stop the madness.
Something that would stop this shit in its tracks immediately is if a politician had the stones to make a law that only wind & solar generated electricity could be used to manufacture, transport & install wind & solar installations.
If that power to manufacture could be generated by wind turbines and solar panels you would have achieved the perpetual motion machine.
Take down all the windmills to save the birds AND …. to stop the embarrassment that many of us feel whilst pretending these monstrosities are to be taken seriously.
Same goes for the destructive and ugly solar panels. They, at least have their ‘limited’ uses in small applications.
Yes, J, limited indeed. I have a 300W panel on the roof of my RV. The best I’ve managed to draw at peak perfect (unsustained) solar conditions is 6.5 amps at charge-controlled 12v, 78 W, i.e. 26% of nameplate. But it gets me by. Just.
There is a place for solar or wind power where one can’t economically or at all connect to the grid AND if you limit your demand. Neither can produce enough energy to make up the energy used to manufacture and maintain them or to sustain an ever growing demand for energy.
The good people of Saskatchewan had plenty of time to point out that Justin is an unaccomplished moron who has no idea what he is talking about.
But no …
All it takes is a minute.
So Saskatchewan (and Alberta) have a choice. Bend over and become the first provinces to experience energy poverty and serfdom awaiting all provinces choosing to remain in the Laurentian-WEF-ruled dystopia or make plans to get out, starting by standing up to the Spawn-Fuhrer and continue burning Coal and NG, while planning long term for nuclear.
Brian Zinchuck doesn’t need to convince those here every day that wind and solar are not now nor ever will be ready for anything that involves a power grid. We get it. I got it 45 years ago from reading Petre Beckman’s ‘Access to Energy’ newsletters. Energy density is the only thing that maters. It’s the urban Eloi that vote that need the message.
I drive through that windmill field near Assiniboia almost any time I go anywhere and they seem to be motionless when their power is needed the most. If we have a blizzard the winds are to strong and they are shut down, if its bitterly cold ,ie -30 and lower there is usually no wind so they don’t turn. They are totally useless….maybe that’s why the little dictator likes them, both are useless when you need them the most.
It’s been amply demonstrated again and again that wind and solar are not, cannot be, replacements for fossil fuels. Yet politicians keep mandating more. This makes me wonder if they’re ever informed, if they ever read about such failures. I can only assume that they get all their news and information from environmental activists and mainstream media that suppresses the truth about renewables just as much as they suppress the truth about global warming.
A lot of these idiots listen largely to their interns, constituency associations, etc., who are so vested in keeping their bosses happy for future promotional considerations they’ll tell them anything to keep the narrative flowing. Nobody wants to give the boss bad news.
“If I don’t get elected I cant change anything”
“I can’t get elected if I go against the media narrative”
“Now that I’m elected if I go against the media narrative, I’ll lose the next election, and then I can’t do anything (and need two terms to get a pension”)
How many times has sk. Power said wind power has gone negative?
How much money have we spent on these bird blenders that don’t work and aren’t reliable, neither is solar!
Anyone with common sense would shut down the bird blenders and fire up the oil, gas & coronach.
Tell drudolf and the globalist WEF to foad!
I used to care I no longer give a sh*t. Starve, freeze, die of whatever, who gives a sh*t?
Spent the last 48 hours without power. No wind and a week of hoar frost knocked out the system. Something pretty simple takes out the grid.
I’m as prepared as you can be for this type of thing. Wood stove for heat, kitchen gas stove, propane lights, half a dozen flashlights, battery radios, generators, spare truck battery to run a xm radio. I can handle it. No internet is a bugger ha.
I drove by the community hall in town and it was full of people. They have a backup genny to keep the heat on so the locals can keep warm when the power goes out. A lot of oldies aren’t able to do much when there’s no power. Their house gets cold and…look out scout.
My guess is it’s not over. Could go out at any time. Hell phone service was sketchy for a day.
Be prepared.
Two nuclear reactors. One north of Saskatoon. One south of Regina. Biggest in world.
Attach research and development to it. Commercialize products for healthcare and secondary markets.
Sell excess power to Alberta.
”On the day that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lectured the Government of Saskatchewan on its clean energy efforts, a total collapse of both wind and solar power generation in Saskatchewan was taking place.”
This statement should make the Atheists fidget slightly, no?
”On the day that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lectured the Government of Saskatchewan on its clean energy efforts, a total collapse of both wind and solar power generation in Saskatchewan was taking place.”
My Lord has a HIGHLY REFINED sense of humor! (HIGHLY REFINED! Get it??)
Today I was driving down Highway #13 west of Assiniboia, Sk. The surrounding area was clear, not a breath of wind. Of the 50 turbines that make up the Golden South Energy Project, the largest in Saskatchewan, not one was turning. Thank God for the nearby Coronach Poplar River Power Station that is coal powered and works well, 24-7. It is possible, due to the heavy fog last night, that the turbines were shut down due to frost on the blades.
One thing I do know for sure concerning turbines. 0 rpms=0 electrical outout. .
If you should see frosted up or fogged in turbines and could get a decent close photo I could use, I would really appreciate it. brian.zinchuk@pipelineonline.ca.