We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Giant Fans

Baiting The Left 36 Comments

Be still, my beating heart.
If ever there were two more perfect for each other…think Love Story, but with leftist head explosions. Or When Harry Met Sally with real geiger-counters instead fake orgasms. Romeo and Juliet living happily ever after, while David Suzuki raises a poisoned chalice to his own fatal despair.
Saskatchewan, we have seen the future, and it is us: nuclear-powered drilling rigs.
Does it get any better than that?
h/t

36 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Giant Fans”

  1. “Does it get any better than that?” said Kate.
    Nope. But I do think I can hear the sound of gigantic chompers gnashing in frustration – could it be – Lizzie May!

  2. I confess that having floating on the ocean makes me a tad nervous, but they’d absolutely perfect for getting at that heavy tar sand in the Sask NW.
    Why if the technology is proven sound, couldn’t we just scatter them across the west to power individual towns & cities? In winter, we could just skid them into place!

  4. I hope ‘Stinkin’ fans’ and
    ‘Asteroid’ and
    ‘Juxtapose’ and
    ‘Nothing That Guy Can’t Do’ and
    ‘American PM’ and
    ‘Y2Kyoto’ are all copyrighted.
    Others are starting to use the phrases. Y2Kyoto on the street today in Kelowna.

  5. I spent a few years as a roughneck on service rigs in the Estevan area and, among the many workplace improvement ideas I could suggest for the industry, a nice quiet power plant (instead of a big ol’ diesel engine churning for 18 hours a day) would be pretty sweet.
    Another bonus would be the ability to eliminate floodlights for the night shift, what with all the glowing rig pigs you’d have.

  6. I don’t know about everyone else, but I think Chernobl, the Kursk, and of the long history of other Russian misadventures and I’m not real comfortable to know they’re getting into floating reactors. Yikes!!!

  10. We’re all aware that the actual goal of the envirowackos is world socialism. One of their main posterboy countries stepping off the reservation regarding preferred energy production, will cause barely a ripple.
    Back to that filthy Saskachawan oil and it’s horrible advancement of ‘Atmospheric Degradation’.

  12. hmmmmmmm that gives me an idea.
    Wonder if I could convert my BBQ ?
    Nahh . . . wouldn’t be the same if I wasn’t belching CO2

  13. The only way it gets better is if we name the first one the David Suzuki Memorial. I know…. he’s not dead yet but hopefully this suggestion will hasten the process.

  17. Icky. Russian nuke technology floating in the ocean.
    This story would be great if it didn’t have a Chernobyl angle.
    If you could make this nuclear powered, then we’d be talking:
    http://www.unicat.net/en/info/MXXL24AH.html
    I’d like to drive it to a greenpeace gathering, blast the air horns and watch them all cower undercover crying and whimpering…

  18. What !!?? Nuclear oil drilling in Canada’s back yard !!?? What the hell !!
    I bet this is all over Canada’s media by now. Missed the National (1560 days in a row now, ha !) but I bet Pete was furious last night !!
    Suzuki will be on his exec jet to Russia. Gore will claim this is very inconvenient and demand Russia be kicked out of Kyoto for finding another big chunk of fossil fuels.
    Just googled ‘russia floating nuclear drill’
    Read the first 20 searches – how many Canadian MSM or any MSM items on this ? ZERO !!
    Yahoo News had a small blip and all the others were small orgs (World News, ect)
    Nothing on CBC, G&M web sites so far.
    The bias, the slant is so obvious it is criminal.

  19. There seems to be a dichotomy in the leftist thinking. On one hand they want to ‘save’ the planet from us, but for us to inhabit. Yet, they actually regard human carbon units as not worthy to have this planet in the first place.
    The Left works hard if stupidly to prevent the very *progress* that would continue to develop a world of prosperity and freedom for as many as possible.
    Why don’t they let the motivated people simply destroy the planet with their quest for dirty energy then all the humans will die due to climate change or some such, and then the Left will have it’s wish. In a few thousand years the world will have saved itself and there will be no more humans to mess it up. Utopia at last.
    Or perhaps they actually think that the Utopia of an elitist run global feudal state will be better for human existence? That is where our elites will take us … you know … Soros, Obama, Gore, the Euro scum Rothschilds, the Bilderbergers, the Mullas, The UN etc etc.
    Freedom is far too messy and unpredicable for those folks to tolerate.
    Consider that the world has spent most of it’s human history in a feudal state. It is the norm. The middle class phenomenon is just that … as phenomenon that has apparently run it’s course and now is being traded off for the security of the oh so caring feudal masters.
    On the other hand, perhaps freedom just got too scary for those who have been enjoying it for so long. Or, maybe it’s because what’s left of our freedoms after most of them have been legislated and taxed away are just not worth fighting for any more.
    Who wants to die fighting to be 20% free?

  20. Momar – you should read ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ – these two books are the future for us if we don’t stop the Owe, next door and demolish the coalition troika of Bolsheviks here in Canada.

  21. Jema54
    History shows things don’t happen until people are sufficiently riled. When that happens, events tend to move quickly.
    In other words, happy comfortable people don’t revolt. People who do not see threats don’t defend against them. But when they become apparent, they’ll act.
    The ebb and flow of history is one of long decline and sharp assents. In other words, since the sheeple tend to keep electing leftards until it becomes untenable, every one in a while they have to turn to the bitter medicine of reality and let the conservatives clean up their mess so they can go back to their slumber.
    Sadly, they often expect a conservative and end up with liberal-lite. There are not enough Churchills, Thatchers and Reagans around to save everyone from their own stupidity. Sometimes, you get a Bush or a Harper (and Harper had so much promise as a fiscal conservative…)

  22. I hope the Russians don’t get cute with this and cut costs by just tying up one of their antique nuclear submarines next to an oil rig. That could be… bad. Russian nuke boats aren’t known for their trouble free and enviro-friendly reactor designs. They leak, to put it mildly.
    The Americans on the other hand have awesome reactors on ships. As far as I know they have yet to lose a ship due to reactor malfunction.

  25. I agree Warwick…….
    Despite our despair of events in Obamaland….despite MSM and phony polls, the Obama clique’s support is thin and narrow….and they know it…..
    A critical mass of the US e;lectorate has been in lock and load mode for 6 months….with no letup…
    “Power comes from the mouth of a gun.”
    Mao Tse Tung…

  26. Phantom: “The Americans on the other hand have awesome reactors on ships. As far as I know they have yet to lose a ship due to reactor malfunction.”
    Actually one of their early nuclear subs was killed by its reactor safety shutdown system working perfectly. It’s name was Thresher. As far as leaks go, it’s certainly true that the Russians have had a number of spectacularly bad problems, but right now there’s a lot of squawking about leaks from British subs at Faslane, even though the safety significance is essentially nonexistent.
    More practically, the Russian VVER reactor technology has been rather good over the last several decades, having nothing in common with the RBMK type reactors, of which Chernobyl 4 was an example. It’s reasonable to expect further improvements as the partnership with Siemens proceeds.

  27. Guided public tour of the Russian sub in Victoria about 6 years ago. Piece of Shi! Plumbers nightmare. Health & safety violations every where.

  28. This invention is the kind of item that usually wakes up America. “If they can do it, why can’t we? Why have we gone soft?”
    At least, it used to.

  29. Now if only they could be moved into place using coal-fired steam engines, we’d have the trifecta.

  31. I don’t know how much I trust the Russians when they say that the waste will be stored on the ships when the USSR was dumping their waste in the Arctic Ocean. (Something that also went, oddly enough, pretty well unremarked upon in our MSM that’s so concerned today about e.g. mercury levels in Arctic seals.)

  32. The only report that could have been better than this would be IF G W Bush had announced- “The US will tomorrow embark upon an aggressive program to drill for oil in the ANWRA area where proven reserves of high quality crude exist. We will utilize neucular(TM GWB) powered drilling rigs. A pipeline will traverse Alaska to bring the crude to an ice free port, electric trace heating for the pipeline will also be Neucular generated. The crude will be loaded onto tankers that will transport it to existing refineries on the West Coast of the USA. If Canada has a problem with this – too bad, we negotiated for a pipeline through their territory but they allowed the negotiations to go nowhere. Construction begins tomorrow, as I have declared the project of strategic interest to the countries survival.
    With any luck the fleet of tankers would utilize the inside passage past David Suzuki’s second home on Quadra Island and the hippy paradises at Hornby and Texada Islands, escorted by a heavily armed navy flotilla and overhead combat air patrol.

  35. Al Gore is questioned in House Commerce and Energy subcommitee.
    When was this video from and why is Gore being questioned?
    Some of Gore’s accusations against others sound like exactly what he’s doing/trying to do himself with his Selfless Crusade to Save The World and the Environment.
    Then again, anyone with such a cool, uber-monitor setup must know what he’s talking about. My Mac with only one 30 incher is humbled and clearly demonstrates that I’m only 1/3 as smrt.

  36. And here Kate, I thought you were pulling my leg.
    But after reading this…WHY NOT? CN/CP could improve too?
    ——————————————————————————
    May 5, 2009, 2:42 pm
    French Nuclear Power Cleans Up Eurostar
    By James Kanter
    Associated Press
    Eurostar says it met its carbon-dioxide reduction goals three years ahead of schedule.
    Eurostar, the high-speed rail link between Paris, London and Brussels, said last week it was raising its target to cut emissions because it had already reached its original goals — three years early.
    Eurostar announced in 2007 that it would aim to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 25 percent per passenger journey over then-current levels — and do so by 2012. But the train operator says it already met that goal, and it introduced a new target: reducing CO2 emissions by 35 percent per passenger journey by 2012.
    The company said the speedier-than-expected reductions could be attributed to a number of factors — from more efficient train driving and turning off half of all on-board lights, to increasing the number of people riding each train. But the vast majority of reductions were achieved by switching to France as the primary provider of electricity for trains traveling the undersea tunnel between Britain and Paris, according to a spokesman, Richard Holligan.
    Previously, half of the energy in the tunnel came from Britain, which relies more heavily on coal and gas-fired power. France generates about 80 percent of its electricity from a fleet of nearly 60 nuclear reactors — which produce little CO2.
    Mr. Holligan said Eurostar aimed to achieve its new reduction target by improving the efficiency of its air-conditioning and heating systems, further reducing the energy consumption of its lighting systems, and introducing more tools to assist drivers to drive the trains efficiently.

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