Environmental Change is NEEDED Just imagine, let's keep this 100 watt light bulb on all year.
Well let's go old fashioned coal burning and let's dump the coal on your front lawn or your apartment balcony, get ready back the truck up and dump. It's only 715 Lbs.
Now while burning this coal it's only 40% efficient so 60% of this is emissions in the form of fly ash, nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide and carbon dioxide. Feels and smells worse than a Cheech and Chong Up In Smoke Movie..Lovely
Ok so let's put some panels on our roof tops because damn it we want to do our part in producing clean energy. Great idea, I put one panel up for there it's fantastic it's small 48"x 22" and I didn't pay too much about $850 installed on my own. It will help reduce my overall electric consumption by a tiny tiny amount, but doing my part. Too bad when it's not very sunny though.
Hey it's windy let's put a tiny little 5 blade wind turbine up, very efficient about 36" in diameter it's surprisingly quite and I actually use it to pull water from the ground for the cows. This more or less equal to the 100 watt light bulb all year, that 715Lbs of coal! Too bad night time comes every day.
All this being said, I need to turn another light bulb on but for this one I am going to burn natural gas, it's pretty clean burning right?, not too too bad for the environment right? Well I need 143 Lbs of natural gas that's under half a pound a day! Awesome right??
Well I called up the big guys at the Nuke Plant, turns out we are only going to need 0.035Lbs/ 0.56 ounces or 16 grams of U3O8 for my next light bulb I install this year. Oh it's 99.9% clean efficiency is good, I like that clean air effect. Plus the spent fuel is also about 90% recyclable for other small modular nuclear power up technologies.
I have worked oil and gas patch, have done the coal power utilities thing have also spent some years working Nuclear.
There is just NO comparison, plants are clean, great jobs in the field.
I am just a Hurtin Albertan Tradesman but I do believe for the betterment of our children's future we need to build a few Nukes out west, create about 20,000 new jobs and get rid of this Red Neck Mentality that Alberta has.
We can export that additional power down to the US of A where they dont have any uranium for the plants they have, hello Neighbor Saskatchewan, did I ever say I love you Saskatchewan Athabasca Basin.