tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post5559575593303527674..comments2024-01-08T21:00:24.932-08:00Comments on The Straight Goods: FortisBC Joins Gordon Campbell`s Clean Energy ScamGrant Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-23264785945672801842010-06-29T16:49:50.317-07:002010-06-29T16:49:50.317-07:00Let`s start with the first one....The project clai...<i>Let`s start with the first one....The project claims it will produce 770 megawatt hours, but it will require importing 1200 megawatt hours from Alberta!</i><br /><br />Oh, I get it now - it's not a perpetual motion machine, it's a perpetual CASH machine. The markup on generated power is so high that it's basically buying Alberta power at cheaper rates, then "recycling" it through some artificial process such that the resulting lesser megawattage is still more valuable than the cheaper megawattage it took to "produce" it.<br /><br />There oughta be a law.....oh wait, there <i>IS</i>......just not one that makes any sense.<br /><br />How come if I'm an independent power producer I can't just go and buy some cheap power on the open market, then sell it to BC Hydro at artificially high prices, and not actually PRODUCE it at all.....I guess they ARE rebottling energy. Almost like bottled water, though more lucrative and no return on the deposit....Skookum1https://www.blogger.com/profile/02454267132163984177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-42419596945860845272010-06-29T15:56:26.865-07:002010-06-29T15:56:26.865-07:00I just happened to drop by looking for Railgate po...I just happened to drop by looking for Railgate posts to send to an activist-type friend in South America.....and this blew my mind when I saw it.<br /><br />There's a <i>LAW</i> against promoting stock or other capital-raising ventures involving perpetual motion machines and other impossibilities. Because that's EXACTLY what this is; it's like claiming you can make energy out of thin air, or sell it in bottles, freshly distilled from the gravitational field.<br /><br />Cold fusion is a better bet. <br /><br />Gee, maybe I should start a cold fusion IPP and get a First Nation to back it with their credit....but then I'm not a BC Liberal and don't have any money to donate to their party machine so wouldn't get a licence. But it makes as much sense as pumping water uphill to make energy when it comes back down again.<br /><br />Clearly they went to stockbroking school, but not engineering school....<br /><br />Naikun's only marginally more scientifically feasible....how they intend to get power from the wind-generator buoys scattered through Hecate Strait I'm not sure. Tesla talked about direct transmission of power through the air, maybe that's what they've got up their sleeve.....other than that a web of undersea cables.....shades of an aquatic version of HAARP......<br /><br />Hmmm. Rube Goldberg Energy Inc. Has a certain ring to it huh?Skookum1https://www.blogger.com/profile/02454267132163984177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-35919822258314658562010-06-29T10:30:38.864-07:002010-06-29T10:30:38.864-07:00And the selling off and out of "our" res...And the selling off and out of "our" resources continues. Read from the following:<br /><br />http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100629/business/macquarie_power<br /><br />(Didn't they back out of the Port Mann cause they couldn't get their financial house in order?Or no, they wouldn't make enough money.<br /><br />Boy, are we going to be paying dearly!!curtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-35855442761032318982010-06-29T00:48:11.966-07:002010-06-29T00:48:11.966-07:00Cam...They intend on making a giant reservoir on t...Cam...They intend on making a giant reservoir on top of the mountain.<br /><br />This project must be stopped before it gets started.Grant Ghttp://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-88813120126400135002010-06-29T00:38:51.928-07:002010-06-29T00:38:51.928-07:00It's not only ludicrous to use more power than...It's not only ludicrous to use more power than they can create, but where are they going to store the water they pump out? There will have to be some sort of environmental impact involved with their storage of the water.<br /><br />Things are getting nuttier by the day.<br /><br />CamCrankypantsnoreply@blogger.com