Flooding shuts down major coal power station at Coronach, leaving SaskPower scrambling to backfill its nearly 600 megawatt output and shed load internally. This was the story promised yesterday.
Flooding shuts down major coal power station at Coronach, leaving SaskPower scrambling to backfill its nearly 600 megawatt output and shed load internally. This was the story promised yesterday.
Use the flooding as hydro power!
Maybe you can get all the hot air politicians to get out and blow on the wind mills
Nah, give them bicycles hooked up to generators
What was done last time?
Same as the time before that!!
I don’t think people realize how much water it takes to run a coal power plant. Cooling water for motors, ultra pure water in the water treatment plant for process water and potable water. Once during a labour dispute, there was a conversation by irate, hot heads at the strike/lockout camp about the best way to disrupt operations without causing serious damage or harm to personnel. It’s water. Everything runs on water.
Something to keep in mind as the federal government has just set up a new national water agency. Will they do to the cost of water what they’ve done to energy, food and housing? Odds say yes.
From cbc
Federal budget calls for Winnipeg to serve as HQ for new Canada Water Agency
The 2023 federal budget calls for a new national water agency to be based in Winnipeg, provided Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government remains in power long enough to see it established in the Manitoba capital….The budget announced on Tuesday calls for the creation of the Canada Water Agency, a new federal entity with a headquarters in Winnipeg.
While the federal government is still determining precisely what the new agency will do, one Winnipeg-based environmental organization expects it to become a one-stop shop for water science, water quality assessment and water management.
“This is something that we don’t actually have in this country at the moment,” said Matt McCandless, a vice-president for the non-profit International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Very good remarks. Coal plants need huge amounts of water for steam condensation, as do nuclear plants. Ontario’s nuclear plants use the great lakes for steam condensation. It’s always interesting whenever there’s a thermal inversion in the deep Lake Huron. In a thermal inversion there’s a sudden flood of cold water welling up to the surface. There’s a strong surge in power generation over a few hours as a result of the colder water.
Someone call CNN! This must be part of the great MaraLago flooding conspiracy!