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Originally Posted by Red Ice Player
Well don't in situ facilities have their own gas powered steam plants now? I was thinking in terms of these plants all being converted to electric power in the long term, allowing long term exploitation with the smallest CO2 footprint.
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Coverting existing gas fired boilers to electric boilers would likely not be cost effective for existing fields. You would need almost free electricity for the capital investment to make sense. Or something like 10 times the cost of gas.
For new or expansions the break even point would be much lower.
The best bang (CO2 reduction for Canada) for Nuclear would be replacing gas and coal fired plants for major cities and using gas fired for remote plants.