Whoopee! It looks like we are going with the nukes!
I suppose I really do not care as I look out the window at the reactor plume of Oswego and Pickering is an hour and a half drive to the west. Interesting to note that the plentiful northern Ontario hydro is not so cost efficient because of the length of the transmission lines as opposed to the dam v. reactor costs. Plus there is more NIMBY opposition on new transmission corridors compared to reactors. Likely the same is true of damming and flooding some new river valleys.
Personally, I am going to get off the grid when we get out 1960s suburban dream home, buying a generator when we get the place so I can run my own light bulb. My precious light bulb. Everything other than that is going on hand crank.
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portland - June 13, 2006 10:26 am
i'll pick you up one of those ice cream makers in a ball. then you're set.
Flea - June 13, 2006 12:51 pm
Ok, off-topic for a sec... gr: Was it you who linked to the Equal Protection for Mutants piece last week? I am wanting to include a hat tip at the Flea today!
Flea - June 13, 2006 12:57 pm
Back on topic: Alan, given prevailing winds I am better off closer to Pickering but upwind than you are your light-bulb are in eastward Far Kingstonia.
I think it is hilarious how anti-nuclear power talk has died to zero not only here but in the UK. Sure, the "Kyoto" spell is out there but far more important, it seems to me, is the somewhat tangentially related issue of energy indepedence vis-a-vis the Saudis and their thralls. So doubleplusgood nuclear policy then!*
*I am 100% in favour of the idea, btw.
Alan - June 13, 2006 1:11 pm
Personally, I would have dammed Hudson Bay in its entirety and introduced a Tantrama-esque tidal power plan. [This one was gold, btw.]
Stumack - June 13, 2006 2:02 pm
Pickering's more like 2 hours, but the hour and a half will get you to Darlington, which already has the land set aside for a major expansion.
gr - June 13, 2006 7:31 pm
Master Flea: I am not that smart. The one you seek is elsewhere.
Portland, I want one of those ice cream makers too. But what about cheese? In a ball? I made beer in a bag once. It was gift.
Alan - June 13, 2006 7:44 pm
I made cheese. Three bucks makes about a pound of cream cheese which tastes better than any cream cheese you have ever had. Then you realize you have a pound of the best tasting cream cheese you have ever had and the knowledge to make it for three bucks.
WCG - June 14, 2006 1:23 pm
I see merit in a "walking office" with treadmills that power your computer (or at least power the monitor). The same with the kiddies and the TV. Make 'em sweat for their suppers! Why should you hand-crank your own lightbulb? That's what kids are for: a cheap source of labour.
gr - June 14, 2006 1:56 pm
I could try putting my cats on a treadmill. One is especially tubby.