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Originally Posted by Torture
I know Smith isn't saying anything in good faith but frankly, 105,000 acres of solar or half of Calgary to provide enough power for the whole province seems pretty darn achievable to me. Travers alone is about 3% of that. Anybody know how many acres of solar we have today?
Edit: Just adding up this list ( https://list.solar/plants/largest-plants/canada/) very quickly so not perfect math, I'm at 20,000+ acres just adding up the the "largest solar power stations in Canada" that are in Alberta.
So we're about 20-25% of the way there already. Seems very doable to me.
Edit 2: Mixing figures here, but consider it to be more rough napkin math. Alberta as of 2017, was using 1% of wind potential, in 2020 had 900 turbines (3rd most in the country behind ON & QC). We were projected to double in 2023 according to CER. So to get to the "impossible" 6500 number that Smith quotes, if we grow at half the pace that 2023 was projected (450 vs 900) we would hit 6300 turbines by the end of 2035. Of course, "turbines" is a stupid measurement because it's really more about capacity and generation - turbines nowadays are "the size of the Calgary tower" and generate way more power than smaller turbines did.
Just pointing out that these numbers that Smith is tweeting as impossible are actually quite achievable. |
Wind and solar are such a waste of time and money, why even bother? If we want to be serious we need to quit dicking around and start building nuclear, we should have started years ago.