| Pages:
1
..
126
127
128 |
JZ
Select Nomad
Posts: 14838
Registered: 10-3-2003
Member Is Offline
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck  | Jz: I see you missed the whole point of my posts. Of course there are events we cannot control, but that doesn't mean we have to deny we are
contributing to the problems and can control that additional contribution. I have never supported Politicians who pretend to be guiding us to a better
future while lining their own pockets and taking funds from lobbyists to prevent positive change.
|
My apologies. You are right.
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7580
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Thanks for the lengthy post that I took the above snippet from.
I'm glad you mentioned the cost of nuclear energy. It's probably the main reason there aren't more nuclear generating stations. I've recently read
that the Small Modular Reactors many are enthused about are even more expensive per megawatt-hour than the traditional nuclear stations. The large
reactors benefit from economies of scale.
[Edited on 7-5-2026 by SFandH]
|
|
|
JDCanuck
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2631
Registered: 2-22-2020
Member Is Offline
|
|
There were multiple reasons why Nuclear Energy fell out of favour, but long term costs of maintenance and safe storage of waste was likely the most
effective in reducing the attractiveness as other renewable alternatives got cheaper and cheaper.
No one seems willing to tackle expenses of the storage issue and the problem of ongoing leakage just keeps growing as State and Federal entities argue
about who is going to pay for it. The biggest operating issue is the relatively low usable power produced from the fuel relative to the massive
amounts of waste heat produced and the necessity to provide far more cooling as a result.
Far better to provide power from combined cycle natural gas generators, use the CO2 produced to manufacture Urea fertilizers as is presently being
done by Nutrien in Alberta and store the remainder in underground caverns while getting 60-65% efficiency from the fuel source.
|
|
|
surfhat
Senior Nomad
Posts: 648
Registered: 6-4-2012
Member Is Offline
|
|
JD, you honor all of us from your Canadian perspective.
I will resist the temptation to condemn those who remain in denial.
That resistance lasted only seconds.
We all can agree, Baja is a treasure for every one of us, and with every
breath I take, will continue to exact as small a footprint as I can,
every time I venture south.
I hope others feel the same reverence for such a special wonder of
nature we all honor in our own ways.
|
|
|
JDCanuck
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2631
Registered: 2-22-2020
Member Is Offline
|
|
Well, as for Baja, I admired the solar advances and wish we were up to their standards of acceptance here, and the newest power plant out at
Pichilingue looks like an excellent start too. Wind, solar and natural gas combined cycle generation popular acceptance are way ahead of Canada at
present. Now if they could only deal with that growing plastics refuse issue and find a way to improve the water supplies. But I noticed there are
also Mexican Engineers chasing those issues down too.
My first knowledge of Atmospheric Water Generators came from our time down there and it proved to be far better than I had imagined at our location
when we had the time to test it out. Have not tried up here as we have more than enough water to keep wasting it in wet coast BC still. Even in much
lower relative humidity La Paz it's working very well for a minimal investment.
[Edited on 7-5-2026 by JDCanuck]
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7580
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Largest Solar Project in the Americas Moves Forward - 1 gigawatt.
In Sonora:
"Two phases have already been completed and are generating electricity. The first phase entered into operation on April 30, 2023, producing 120 MW of
clean energy for the city of Puerto Peñasco. The second phase began operations on September 14, 2024, adding an installed capacity of 300 MW, which
is supplied to the city of Mexicali, Baja California. Development of Phase III is currently underway.
Upon completion of all four construction phases, the project will reach 1,000 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity, plus 246 MW through a Battery
Energy Storage System (BESS), making it the largest solar power plant in the Americas and the fifth largest worldwide."
https://www.proyectosmexico.gob.mx/en/largest-solar-project-...
Sheinbaum was recently in Mexicali, where she inaugurated a new 673-megawatt natural gas power plant.
https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026/06/21/politica/claud...
|
|
|
lencho
Junior Nomad
Posts: 87
Registered: 1-16-2005
Location: Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de EU
Member Is Offline
Mood: Somnoliento
|
|
Something to be said for
having a scientist/engineer as President. 
"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is, by how stupid he thinks I
am."
"...they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they
were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand."
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
"Be kind, be patient, help others." -- Isabel Allende
"My gas stove identifies as electric." Anonymous
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7580
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Ph.D. in Energy Engineering - I bet she had fun touring the new power plant. Probably the best day of her trip to Baja. 
|
|
|
JDCanuck
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2631
Registered: 2-22-2020
Member Is Offline
|
|
How does any country manage to take advanced Engineering that is so well designed in other nations and turn all of them into disasters? Even up here
in Canada with our much slimmer solar capabilities we are finding it extremely beneficial with rapid paybacks and zero Government funding. All we need
is for the Government to get out of the way and let us do it with the best available equipment. Right now that happens to be from China. Even Teslas
are seeing a surge in sales now that we are allowed to buy the Chinese manufactured ones at suddenly 40% price reductions on the Model 3's that don't
have excess Steel, Aluminum and Copper tariffs included in them when we were forced to buy them from the US manufacturers.
Whats perhaps worse is for the first time in 30 years after being the US major market for exported vehicles, Canadians are importing more Mexican
manufactured vehicles from a relatively tariff free country than we previously bought from the US. It's not a boycott, it's the excess prices we are
unwilling to shoulder.
[Edited on 7-5-2026 by JDCanuck]
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7580
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by JDCanuck |
All we need is for the Government to get out of the way and let us do it with the best available equipment. Right now that happens to be from China.
|
Interesting two sentences considering the Chinese government is heavily integrated with Chinese business.
|
|
|
JDCanuck
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2631
Registered: 2-22-2020
Member Is Offline
|
|
SFandH: It's the tariffs. Raising costs of manufacturing through tariffs on all the imported raw materials has loaded US manufacturers with a heavv
extra cost to innovate and produce. It's no mystery why over 50% of Teslas cars are now manufactured in Shanghai or why Ford and GM are now
manufacturing their newer technology vehicles increasingly in foreign locations with dual partnerships with Chinese manufacturers. All 3 traditional
NA manufacturers warned what was happening to their manufacturing costs in the US, but it appears no one was listening.
I would buy a Rivian in a heartbeat for my next EV if it wasn't for that extra 25% price they tacked on because of tariffs. As it is, it looks like
the next will be Japanese again, or perhaps advanced Chinese design if they are as cheap as they are in Mexico when they finally arrive.
[Edited on 7-5-2026 by JDCanuck]
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7580
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
France records 2,025 excess deaths in June heatwave
France endured a rise of nearly 30 percent in the number of deaths recorded during the week of June 22, the peak of a record-breaking heatwave that
battered the country, the public health authority said Friday.
"There were around 2,025 additional deaths for the week of June 22 to 28 compared with the previous week," French Health Minister Stephanie Rist told
local media on Friday, warning that the tally was nowhere near complete.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260703-france-records-2...
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
..
126
127
128 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
