GW/cc solutions -
Try this on for a solution to global warming - the federal and provincial governments declared global warming a 'national emergency' that required all budget surpluses [federal and provincial] to be directed towards renewable energy projects of wind and solar.
They could begin by setting up a solar panel factory to reduce costs we will pay for solar panels by about 1/3rd. This could create 1000s of NEW jobs too.
Then, install those solar panels everywhere they can be put - parking lots, housetops, buildings, marginal farmlands, etc. and watch the economic benefits flow to the people who paid for it - taxpayers!!
The big advantage is that once set up, these electricity producing systems will provide us with electrical power that is more or less FREE for 25 or more years, continuously. Maintenance costs are very small, and with no need for added fuels as with coal-fired generators; solar power is basically free electricity once set up.
It will not be enough of course, but even at just 10% of the nations electrical needs it will be enough to cover the "peak power period" each day, where so many coal fired generators are fired up to meet the high demand. That will reduce emissions right away.
When the capacity get to be 50% of Canada's needs, we will find that our power bills are half, because we are now supplying our own power via the renewable energy projects, all paid for and therefore no financing costs. The only power we pay for is the other 50% that private industry is selling to us.
This does break the mold of capitalism and privatisation, but in light of global warming and the refusal of "private power producers" to get on the ball and reduce emissions, this is the way we must do it now. It is the power producers own fault - they could have started going to renewables or otherwise reducing emissions in 1990, but instead they chose to pay for denials based on fake science.
So fug 'em - let us now end the windfall of selling electricity through a single corporate entity that we all pay into for something we all use that WE could be producing for ourselves and reduce our cost by half.
Oh ya, and we also solve global warming this way too [a major part of it, at least]
Try this on for a solution to global warming - the federal and provincial governments declared global warming a 'national emergency' that required all budget surpluses [federal and provincial] to be directed towards renewable energy projects of wind and solar.
They could begin by setting up a solar panel factory to reduce costs we will pay for solar panels by about 1/3rd. This could create 1000s of NEW jobs too.
Then, install those solar panels everywhere they can be put - parking lots, housetops, buildings, marginal farmlands, etc. and watch the economic benefits flow to the people who paid for it - taxpayers!!
The big advantage is that once set up, these electricity producing systems will provide us with electrical power that is more or less FREE for 25 or more years, continuously. Maintenance costs are very small, and with no need for added fuels as with coal-fired generators; solar power is basically free electricity once set up.
It will not be enough of course, but even at just 10% of the nations electrical needs it will be enough to cover the "peak power period" each day, where so many coal fired generators are fired up to meet the high demand. That will reduce emissions right away.
When the capacity get to be 50% of Canada's needs, we will find that our power bills are half, because we are now supplying our own power via the renewable energy projects, all paid for and therefore no financing costs. The only power we pay for is the other 50% that private industry is selling to us.
This does break the mold of capitalism and privatisation, but in light of global warming and the refusal of "private power producers" to get on the ball and reduce emissions, this is the way we must do it now. It is the power producers own fault - they could have started going to renewables or otherwise reducing emissions in 1990, but instead they chose to pay for denials based on fake science.
So fug 'em - let us now end the windfall of selling electricity through a single corporate entity that we all pay into for something we all use that WE could be producing for ourselves and reduce our cost by half.
Oh ya, and we also solve global warming this way too [a major part of it, at least]
