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Category Archives: Renewables
Why are our electricity bills going up?
(Jan. 27, 2010) Now we’re told that our hydro bills will increase 46 % over the next 4 years. Why? What caused it? Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Green collapse
(Dec. 04, 2010) Across the world, unsustainable subsidies for wind and solar are being cut back. Ontario is next. Continue reading
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Lawrence Solomon: Lady Godiva Rides Again
(Oct. 25, 2010) More citizens plan to speak out against wind power. Continue reading
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Wind: The new nuclear
(Oct. 23, 2010) Both technologies are immature and premature, writes Lawrence Solomon. Continue reading
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Tagged Energy Probe, Lawrence Solomon, Nuclear Power, Renewable Energy, Wind power Ontario
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Lawrence Solomon: Ontario power lesson
(Oct. 13, 2010) Notes for a speech that Ontario’s Opposition leader could give, but won’t, on the state of the province’s electricity sector. Continue reading
Governments spend too much on unnecessary programs
(Oct. 4) Don Soule, writing for The Record, says political leaders need to stop funding projects that are mostly about buying votes. Continue reading
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Why wind power is more complicated than people imagine
(Aug. 8, 2010) July 8 — a Thursday — was the height of Ontario’s heat wave, the day it reached 35 degrees in Ottawa, the day when air conditioners strained our electrical system to the limit. Continue reading
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Why wind power is more complicated than people imagine
(August 8, 2010) July 8 — a Thursday — was the height of Ontario’s heat wave, the day it reached 35 degrees in Ottawa, the day when air conditioners strained our electrical system to the limit. Ontario was drinking power at a rate of more than 25,000 megawatts — that’s 25 billion watts — in the late afternoon. Not a record, but far more than most summer days.
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Wind’s bad day
(Jul. 8, 2010) Yesterday’s scorcher scorched wind power’s reputation and its long-term bottom line, too. Continue reading
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Wind’s bad day
(July 8, 2010) Yesterday’s scorcher scorched wind power’s reputation and its long-term bottom line, too. This simple chart demonstrates why no company can make a profit supplying wind power to the electricity system without government subsidies, and why no society can count on wind power when the power is most needed. Continue reading
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