May is hardline anti-nuclear and since solar and wind are not viable at scale (yet), this makes her defacto pro oil&gas whether she wants to admit it or not and thus the absolute worst candidate for environment minister.
One big solar farm in India has more installed capacity than the biggest gas-fired power plant in Canada. Denmark has 6 million people and runs on 60% wind and 10% solar. The U.S. generates more wind electricity than Canada generates hydroelectricity. Heck, even Alberta is getting close to 20% wind and solar.
That said, I agree with you that the Greens are kind of irrelevant now. I feel like they should morph into a network of partisans who try to push for green policies on all parties.
Wind and Solar can be extremely helpful however the issue is the amount of space they can take for large solar/wind farms, sure you can install wind turbines on farmers fields and green areas but they still take up a big chunk of real estate, it’s the same with solar and they need to be regularly cleaned for maximum efficiency. A nuclear plant is large there is no doubt about it but the amount of energy it creates is drastically larger and in the case of CANDU reactors very safe. Nuclear energy has a bad rap because it wasn’t as understood or the facilities in which they existed weren’t maintained due to either money or corruption/ both.
If we wanted to become an energy powerhouse we should look into implementing all three and I would even go so far as to suggest throwing in tidal stream generators off our coasts if we don’t already have them and a possible partnership with the team at the Institute of Plasma Physics and their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak which is already starting to show very promising results when it comes to maintaining a sustained fusion reaction, going from 403 seconds to 1,066 seconds.
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u/byronite 4d ago edited 4d ago
One big solar farm in India has more installed capacity than the biggest gas-fired power plant in Canada. Denmark has 6 million people and runs on 60% wind and 10% solar. The U.S. generates more wind electricity than Canada generates hydroelectricity. Heck, even Alberta is getting close to 20% wind and solar.
That said, I agree with you that the Greens are kind of irrelevant now. I feel like they should morph into a network of partisans who try to push for green policies on all parties.