tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post8286356233550462419..comments2023-10-25T07:29:40.789-02:30Comments on UNCLE GNARLEY: CHES CROSBIE TESTED: "MISTAKE" TO REPLACE MADNESS? Des Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566013585647491614noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-59934249738203559892018-07-09T20:24:26.939-02:302018-07-09T20:24:26.939-02:30Whatever...Whatever...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-30979133784497928582018-07-09T00:07:18.412-02:302018-07-09T00:07:18.412-02:30Sounds like a reply by Heracles, and since it took...Sounds like a reply by Heracles, and since it took 3 days to come up with such a silly reply, it suggests a very sluggish thought process by anon, and a thicker skull that the guy on the corner. You surely got lost in understanding that a black roof is a solar heater, beneficial in the north and a problem in the south. Suggest you study physics, but just a little, as too might confuse you.<br />WA Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-31937150962943179652018-07-08T21:20:18.586-02:302018-07-08T21:20:18.586-02:30You're like the guy who was standing on the co...You're like the guy who was standing on the corner beating himself over the head with a piece of 2X4.... thump! thump!, thump! on and on..<br /><br />When ask why he kept beating himself over the head like that he replied "Because it feels so good when I stop".<br /><br />Describes the Newfie mentality to T. Maybe a form of Etienne's "cultural script".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-25646451931064470302018-07-06T10:53:55.311-02:302018-07-06T10:53:55.311-02:30What a wonderful comment, average Joe,not just av...What a wonderful comment, average Joe,not just average Joe, better than the best, I say.<br /> And your motto " we are our own worst enemies" made my biggest smile of many reading your piece. <br /> And yes, I have now silenced Heracles for at least 15 days, and have the power to silence him forever, if I so choose, and he has any integrity to keep his word. As Trumpie says, we'll see what happens.<br />Winston Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-20361312947499677892018-07-06T09:05:26.047-02:302018-07-06T09:05:26.047-02:30Yes, Winston, I like the KK song too, but the last...Yes, Winston, I like the KK song too, but the last too comments are so off base they are ludicrous. I could write a book on both but wil try and limit my comments to a couple of brief points. The first one was just laughable, commanding you to give up about heat pumps, like telling a cow to stop producing milk, Winston that is your right to say what you feel and think, and I say keep it up, and he won't come back, and good riddance as I said before. But, HP is your raison d'être, it is what you have taken on before muskrat sanction, and if taken seriously could have prevented muskrat. Your single handed efforts could been our saving grace. Keep it up. If and when I invest in a HP it will be my personal decision, based simply on my personal circumstances, and that is what democracy is all about. They want to take away you democrat right to even talk about it. Now on the second comment, that is insulting to all of us, because it is just pulled out of a hat, and portrait as if it were written just for us, and all about us, "cultural script". Curtural script has been written about all nationalities, Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, you name it, but maybe not for canada, and certainly not Newfoundland. So our so called learnered friend tosses, "the elite townie" in our midst like a granide and thinks he has rediscovered archemides principle of flotation. Horatios, horatios, I have found it, I have found it. And runs through the street naked. How many papers have you written and published on "cultural script"??? Zilch, Nadia!!! How many of our premiers have been from "the townie elite"? Uno. Yes the great Dannie. And while we are on quotes, here is one for him in plain English, which we all understand. "A clever man commits no minor blunders". I wrote briefly on all our premiers and politicans a few months ago, to give our so called friends an understanding of who we are. They ignored it totally, made a stab in the dark, about our cultural script. Are they, the " three wise men" on our cultural, no the three bullshitters, about our cultural, not one of them have ever set foot on NL soil. Yet, they are now, all three, experts about us. And here is a quote that best describes the three of them, "there is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action". So that brings us to the bondage of "the townie elite". What a farce. There may have been some truth in that ages ago, but almost half the population, now lives on the Avalon, or around the St. John's area as one might say, and probably 80 percent of those people have their roots from around the bay. From paddy on vocm to the billionaire, Stan the man, and almost everyone in between. We don't have the Irvings, like New Brunswick, that owners the entire province, twice as big as their government. We have a few names but no one that we are be holding too. Or do I shiver in my shoes, when I hear the name, "Ball". No I laugh in their face, as I do with most other politicans or so called, " townie elites". So get a life boys, and write about something you know something about, or learn to learn about something you know nothing about. One last taught, if you wanted a phrase for our cost of arms. It might be, "we are our own worst enemies". Now put that in your pipe and smoke it says, Joe blow, average Joe, AJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-49139378130921271222018-07-05T22:54:27.138-02:302018-07-05T22:54:27.138-02:30A most interesting quote, and not to be dismissed ...A most interesting quote, and not to be dismissed Joe, I submit, like our young men lost in WW1, fighting from freedom we are reminded, and those in WW2, many in semi starvation from a decade of Depression and the Commission of Govn, 6 cents a day dole. There is the line that comes to mind from the Kris Kristosferson song, freedom is another word, when you have nothing left to lose. I guess Etienne implied we are serfs to those that promote such schemes as MFs, and also promote anti Quebec sentiment. Now I take issue with some of his views but this may be not far off, I wonder? Now if such a quote was on our quote of arms, what should the symbols show?<br /> I had in mind a motto "Love thy neighbour as thyself", which says more if you saw my symbols.<br />Winston<br />WinstonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-45233914792209096552018-07-05T21:12:06.144-02:302018-07-05T21:12:06.144-02:30Omg Winston, so much to say about the last couple ...Omg Winston, so much to say about the last couple of post and will say it soon, but just to say now... Think the gothic quote is: , "there is a form of bondage more potent than the illusion of freedom". Cheers, average Joe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-12625027415435944532018-07-05T20:43:02.932-02:302018-07-05T20:43:02.932-02:30Etienne,
Good to see you back. I recall your rais...Etienne,<br /> Good to see you back. I recall your raising the question of class, and little response here on UG. I or someone may have made a comment. But do I fit the "cultural script" you describe? Perhaps only Bruno has been more critical of some of the elite Townie social class, or maybe PF, and that elite class has power over the whole society. Now I have said that a transfer of MF debt from ratepayers to taxpayers and corporations is good, which puts more burden on that elite class, which you imply is good. You take issue that such a move however is detrimental to the whole province, and its financial situation, that is your argument, correct?<br /> Now, as to our Coat of Arms, which was raised on UG by PF, I think, in a rant, urging Judge Leblanc to remove it from his court room. I mentioned recently I worked on a sketch of a redesign, and offered a reward for a best redesign, but no takers so far. I googled your quote of Goethe, and came up empty. Could you please translate it for me, as I too had in mind a different motto from the current one.<br /> That I and Average Joe keep track of your general view,... was it that Nfld would be completely depopulated from the MFs fallout?<br /> Notice I have avoided now for 5 hours the word that Heracles wants banned or that I cease to use for 15 days. He drives a hard bargain! <br /> Class .....yes, the root of Nfld problems, and appropriate under discussion about Ches Crosbie, as one of that class. Good point. Needs more discussion. Will Leblanc protect the interests of that class structure, instead of We the People?<br />WinstonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-17378212378845226012018-07-05T17:38:34.515-02:302018-07-05T17:38:34.515-02:30Heracles: I think you are doing Winston an injusti...Heracles: I think you are doing Winston an injustice. Winston: don't think I am defending you, I simply realize that you cannot break out of your Newfoundland cultural script.<br /><br />(On the whole principle/concept of "cultural script", see this: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED398737.pdf)<br /><br />Heracles, the problem you are encountering is simple: in Newfoundland culture it is an unspoken convention (part of the "cultural script" that is universally internalized by Newfoundlanders, and which therefore is treated as a self-evident truth) that one not speak of social class. As a society which has been ruled by the same ("Townie") elite for centuries, whose position has never been threatened, it is understood that Resistance Is Futile. As a result, Newfoundlanders do not just identify with their province: they identify with their province *and its elite*, whose local domination is seen as something as immutable as the laws of physics, and whose interests are perceived as the same as all Newfoundlanders'.<br /><br />Winston cannot grasp that a widespread use of heat pumps in Newfoundland would lead to a worsening degradation of the (already terrible) fiscal situation of the province of NL. He cannot grasp this point because anything which reduces power consumption for individuals in NL (including heat pumps...) is indeed a good thing. What he assumes, wrongly, as a result of his Newfoundland cultural script, is that a widespread use of heat pumps must also be good for the province as a whole. <br /><br />The only way he could understand your point, Heracles, would be by separating ordinary individuals' interests within NL from those of the Townie Elite and of the province as a whole. His cultural script utterly prohibits him from doing so. Indeed, it prohibits ALL Newfoundlanders from doing so. <br /><br />Thus, haven't you noticed that we Non-Newfoundlanders are the only ones who have ever brought up social class in the comments? Or pointed out how MF makes perfect sense as a scheme to transfer wealth to Newfoundland elites at the expense of ordinary Newfoundlanders? A list of such wealth transfer rackets could be made: For instance, think of the lawyers challenging Hydro-Quebec and the UC contract all the way to the Supreme Court, making all that money, compliments of the NL taxpayer (It does explain why anti-Quebec sentiment is rampant, doesn't it?). I do not think this is an accident.<br /><br />I understand that here has been talk recently of changing NL's Coat of Arms: Allow me, as a humble and interested outsider, to suggest that NL's provincial motto, instead of "Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei", should be the following quotation of Goethe's:<br /><br />“Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein.”<br /><br />Look it up (It's in German, not French, and thus will not offend local anti-Quebec sentiment). I think it describes most Newfoundlanders to a T. Sadly. <br />Etiennenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-8125512976474997812018-07-05T14:53:50.176-02:302018-07-05T14:53:50.176-02:30Winston, I left because it was the only and last o...Winston, I left because it was the only and last option I had to respect you.<br /><br />In March, even UG himself agreed that there was way too much of your bullshit about heat pumps. He filtered a few post from you at that moment but clearly, that was not enough for you to stop talking about it.<br /><br />David Vardy made an entire post just for you, explaining all that one of the few things that would be worst than MF would be to do it and add an efficiency program to it, so you would end up paying twice for it. Again, that was not enough for you to understant.<br /><br />So here is the deal I can offer you: I will keep monitoring the blog for 15 days. If you do not post a single post about heat pump and efficiency, I will come back.<br /><br />If you keep living in the past when such a thing would have been good, I will leave you in your past and keep going with my present and future.<br /><br />If you keep pushing for increased endebtment by spending more money you don't have to ensure your government will collect less, I will let you fast forward your ruin with your Efficient Endebtment Program.<br /><br />If you keep pushing for collecting even more from the richer, remember that they are the ones for who to option to Leave-N-Live is the most attractive and as such, the first to fly. So if you keep pushing your demography in the wrong direction, then again, you will have to do it without me.<br /><br />I refuse to live in the past, no matter mine or yours.<br />I refuse to encourage more endebtment, no matter at individual or provincial level, mine ou yours.<br />I refuse to keep pushing the demography the wrong way, no matter mine or yours.<br /><br />See you in 15 days if I do not see a single new post about heat pump and efficiency from you,Heracles31https://www.blogger.com/profile/04598467925778515764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-38675370542124874022018-07-05T13:50:08.911-02:302018-07-05T13:50:08.911-02:30Eric, I find your English excellent, with an occas...Eric, I find your English excellent, with an occasional word that could be better. Wish I had such skill as yours for the French language, and I blame my schooling which had Latin as a second language!As for Joe, he is a pretty straight shooter, calls it as he sees it, in interesting language. The most enjoyable commentator here, my opinion, and can give and take. Pity if Heracles takes offence and quits, but that says something too. <br />WAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-23649579886887291912018-07-05T13:38:13.261-02:302018-07-05T13:38:13.261-02:30Agree, a robust 52 million a year Efficiency Progr...Agree, a robust 52 million a year Efficiency Program is overkill now at this stage, many middle class can afford and will do energy efficiency, and the low income group needs support or suffer heat poverty. The existing small incentive program now is deceptive and provides little benefit, and HP recommendations are inferior and offers little peak demand reduction when it is cold,(whereas NS uses Cold Climate Models)<br /> Many poorer people use electric radian heaters which are a fire hazard if left unattended, and overheat as the inlet blocks up with dust reducing air flow, so they use dangerous electric heat. Good incentives for that class makes more sense, and less to the middle and high income class. Incentives now for that class covers about 200 homes a year, so almost worthless as most are shut out. NS has about 35 Million a year program, very comprehensive.<br /> Here customer efficiency, little that there is, is paid for by ratepayers alone, from their power bill diversion of funds. In NS, shareholders of Emera picks up some of the cost for customer efficiency, which would be a shocking concept here, Nfld Power now wanting a higher 9.5 % guaranteed return instead of 8.5 %, so as the customer can afford less with increasing rates, the power companies want more profits. <br /> We need a Bernie Sanders type here to shame the power companies and politicians, that created this boondoggle.Not sure if our Consumer Advocate or Judge Leblanc is up to the task? So interesting times ahead.<br />WinstonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-42113968045091653482018-07-05T13:02:20.501-02:302018-07-05T13:02:20.501-02:30AJ, after re-reading, I indeed used a poor choice ...AJ, after re-reading, I indeed used a poor choice of word, which definitely went behond my thoughts. I definitely need better English language skills.Ex-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-24697465329864825752018-07-05T12:36:16.836-02:302018-07-05T12:36:16.836-02:30Hi Winston,
I particularly like when you say:
&...Hi Winston,<br /><br />I particularly like when you say: <br /><br />"Efficiency, assuming MF operates, will cause a transfer of costs from the ratepayer to the taxpayer, so to higher income people and corporations..."<br /><br />You really well summarized the trade off dilemma here. <br /><br />So I'm really not convinced spending $52M/year is a good way to get there. Rate increases will achieve most of it, but at no costs (but we have to figure out that "optimal rate"...)<br /><br />But I agree rate increases will hurt the poors the most. Some kind of tax credit would be more effective to even things out. (FWIW, in Quebec we have that "Solidarity Tax Credit") Ex-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-54261170780236633132018-07-05T11:41:50.823-02:302018-07-05T11:41:50.823-02:30Eric , as to our gifts to NS, I overlooked this: ...Eric , as to our gifts to NS, I overlooked this: Our island wind potential.<br /> Now you may recall, Bruno harped on wind constantly, and more so with Tesla battery storage.<br /> But wind, Which is typical 3mw units, to be effective it generally needs to to be anchored, electrically, to large generators for stable power. Like the flywheel on the car engine, or the big cast iron wheel on the old single piston Acadia boat engine, the inertia of the wheel gives stability and smooths the operation.<br /> So wind normally can be about 15 percent of our grid load, but if finely controlled may go to 25%.<br /> So with almost 1200 MW of island hydro, 20% wind would be 240 MW. 600 MW of island wind is not practical.<br /> So NS asks, and Nalcor offers this wind asset to NS as a freebe, : sure take this and use our island grid to anchor your NS wind, with wind generators in NS. Wind was no good they falsely said to help Nfld avoid MFs, but NS covets and gets the benefit free. <br /> Now HQ will increase wind generation using their hydro generators to anchor their wind, as you would expect. But not Nalcor, we give this valuable asset away free. And so we the people are bled by a thousand cuts, by our leaders and power companies here. Our wind resource, mostly given away. <br />Winston<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-69619127207268273232018-07-05T11:28:26.159-02:302018-07-05T11:28:26.159-02:30Was going to have a few choice words, but will ref...Was going to have a few choice words, but will refrain, since you and Winston seem to be having an in depth discussion. And don't you worry or give to much advice on my emotions, as they are totally under control. Thanks, average Joe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-34856986099928888832018-07-05T09:08:42.669-02:302018-07-05T09:08:42.669-02:30AG, I see your rational to some extent. But here i...AG, I see your rational to some extent. But here is how I see it for the next election, it will be a very critical time for our short term fincincial situation, mainly to satisfy our bond agencies, and lending agencies and rates etc. But just speaking as an average person with no expertise in government fincinancing. But we are now reduced to 40 seats from 52 in the legislature, so much easier to elect a minority govt. since way back in the early 70' s with Smallwood and Moores, with a one seat majority and the shenanigans that occurred then. So with a fourth party or a slate of reliable candidates, could easily see a miniority govt. let's say one of the major parties were to win 17 or 18 seats, and would have to depend, let's say on the NDP, to make a majority in the House, the govt goes to the bond agencies with a fiscal plan for borrowing, and let's assume Rogers wants a very social orientated plan and the bond agencies rejects it and ask for changes, a small party of maybe 3 or 4 members will decide our critical future considering muskrat drag. I just used the NDP as an example, it could be any of the other parties or let's say four independents. ( remember the power that Tom Burgess wielded back in the early seventies, and hardly a click between his two ears) So what happens, we go into dire fincincial straits, or a new election, or what. I think it would be the time for a strong government, and let them take the heat, and do the right think for the province, to satisfy our lenders. So, I personally think it is too critical of a time to mess around with the possibility of minority govts. Others may think differently, but you better present your rational for those possibilities, says average Joe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-72199441960407322972018-07-05T08:59:01.067-02:302018-07-05T08:59:01.067-02:30No, not stubborn, as the wisdom of energy efficien...No, not stubborn, as the wisdom of energy efficiency if there is an energy surplus is a complicated issue with pros and cons.<br /> We are at least a decade late for a good efficiency program, that would have helped avoid MFs. We cannot have surplus hydro, if we consider Nfld and NS. If we get max winter power over the Labrador line, we can handle our load and maybe 300 MW to NS, but are still short 200 MW of what the Maritime link can handle. But why should Nflders go for efficiency to allow NS more power at only 5 cents? Perhaps NS should fund a Nfld efficiency program to benefit them to get more power? But individual interest and savings, we will do it, and a bonus for NS.<br /> To assume we will have surplus hydro and it be reliable is a stretch at this point, and take to about 2026 to allow 5 years of operation as to reliability, so almost another decade to know.<br /> Efficiency will happen anyway due to higher rates, which drives down power consumption on the island, and Vardy suggests it is better not to operate MFs, benefits insufficient to cover about 120M a year operation costs.<br /> Efficiency, assuming MF operates, will cause a transfer of costs from the ratepayer to the taxpayer, so to higher income people and corporations, a good thing.<br /> If MFs does not operate, then a robust incentive type efficiency would be good, if MFs operates, a moderate incentive type is better. We now have a very low incentive program. If efficiency is not good, then why have any incentive program now? Nfld Power is now to convert all street lights to LEDS, which benefits both them and the consumer. Why do it if it reduced the load, and impairs the case for MF which required a high load.<br />One should ramp up for efficiency, from 5M to 10, to 20 and whether it should go higher. <br /> On a regional basis and a planetary basis, to counter climate change, robust efficiency is needed, and this argument should be a federal one, apart from the economics of just MFs, and extend to transportation etc. <br /> We are losing the battle to climate change, and any delay is dangerous. India now I think is cancelling hundreds of coal fired plants and going big on solar. 40% of our current hydro here is wasted on customer inefficiency. Efficiency programs are job creators. We are losing tradesmen now who can do with jobs locally. NB's relatively small efficiency program added 700 jobs. <br /> So, pros and cons, and whether a govn program or not , efficincy by the people will happen, even if that lowers the income for Nalcor and Fortis. Govn may slow down the rate, but efficiency will ramp up.<br /> So says I, Eric, and I think a good thing.<br />Winston <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-72888440120785125332018-07-05T08:17:10.874-02:302018-07-05T08:17:10.874-02:30Anon, the under ventilated attic was by design,to ...Anon, the under ventilated attic was by design,to see the potential for solar gain into the attic. Max heat gain is by reduced ventilation, darkness of shingles, and slope of roof, and increased height to the peak. Too much heat is a problem in summer but heat gain is very beneficial in winter and shoulder seasons, and ventilation must be sufficient to avoid condensation problems.<br /> Did you get lost in understanding that? <br />WAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-5105104886923281292018-07-05T00:17:37.746-02:302018-07-05T00:17:37.746-02:30So it could be a lttle premature to commit to a ye...So it could be a lttle premature to commit to a yearly $52M efficiency program if we might end up with surplus hydro, post MF (even w/o a water management agreement with HQ).<br /><br />Ok, don't shoot me, I know I'm stubborn ;-)<br /><br />Have a great night Winston! <br />Always a pleasure exchanging with you.<br /><br />EricEx-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-8303205949139407832018-07-05T00:01:28.202-02:302018-07-05T00:01:28.202-02:30Anon @ 20;28, what you say is a red herring. We ca...Anon @ 20;28, what you say is a red herring. We can transmit through Quebec for wheeling fees, and we do that. For MFs power an extra tranmission line is needed through Quebec, and is high cost, as is our DC line. <br /> Our proven route is not yet proven reliable, and to ship CF this way through Nfld, add 8 more lines at 5 billion each and see how economic it is.<br />WAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-89566997765306798022018-07-05T00:00:41.590-02:302018-07-05T00:00:41.590-02:30Your lost.Your lost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-80793022692351138112018-07-04T23:50:40.750-02:302018-07-04T23:50:40.750-02:30Yes,enough power and some surplus, as I indicated,...Yes,enough power and some surplus, as I indicated, subject to :<br />1. Coordination with CF , which I assume could be worked out<br />2 the north spur holds<br />3 reliability<br />4 power that cost over 60 cents per kwh, mixed with our existing 11 cent power, to cost 23 cents based on power growth of 0.8 percent per year, but actually declining demand,suggesting rates needing to exceed 23 cents to pay for it<br />5 No revenue from NS on the first 160MW, and 5 cents rate on next 160MW<br />6 NS power actually coming from our old low cost island hydro, more reliable than MFs, so we end up with both higher cost power and lower reliability.<br />7 Serious Power loss from MFs is not if but when , and therefore requires Holyrood backup for the Avalon, no decommissioning, upgrades, or more gas turbines.<br />8 Serious decline of power use on the island,even without incentives, as cost effective alternatives exist to electric baseboard heat, <br />Other than that , a great make work project, projected by Dave Vardy to fall short of paying for itself by 500 million a year.<br />A boondoggle first class. Not sure if I missed anything. Well, a Newfie joke, first class.<br /> Now the good points:<br />Save 100 million a year at Holyrood for fuel<br />Lower GHG from Holyrood<br />About 50 million a year from NS on the second power block<br />Savings I believe allowed by Vardy<br /> Have to ask Ed Martin, and now Stan Marshall for anything more. Power import form NS is fake news as they not enough themselves, and if a little from dirty coal.<br /> Not much to be positive about. And so no real mitigation plan.<br /> We are in a tough spot indeed. And our island problem could have been solved for about 1.5 billion instead of 13 billion and saddled with many problems.<br /> As I see it Eric.<br />WAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-4911152525761727332018-07-04T23:16:20.619-02:302018-07-04T23:16:20.619-02:30You are right, it is underventilated. I have an ex...You are right, it is underventilated. I have an exhaust fan there that is not on. If well ventilated the temperature would be about 105 F<br />WAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-61131649478079300512018-07-04T22:25:15.884-02:302018-07-04T22:25:15.884-02:30Thanks again Winston for your responses.
So HQ...Thanks again Winston for your responses.<br /><br />So HQ's UC operating parameters (as low as 17% during the summer, and as hight as 115% during the winter, but probably closer to 100% most of the winter) seems to be actually a better fit for Nalcor's needs. There should be plenty of hydro for the whole province. (Except for the possible reliability issues you noted)<br /><br />Did I miss something?<br /><br />Eric Ex-Military Engrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209511368820589727noreply@blogger.com