Hey B.C. there are viable solutions using wave power to produce electricity. A Canadian company invented a zero carbon one. So....????
Drought in Western Canada impacting hydropower production as reservoirs run low
Both B.C. and Manitoba, where the vast majority of power is hydroelectric, are experiencing low reservoir levels that have negatively affected electricity production this fall and winter.
I think nuclear power is going to be embraced as the primary core source of power, with renewables playing a secondary role. It generates a lot of electricity without outputting carbon, leaves more land freed up to the wild or agriculture.
Instead of wind farms or solar fields...you'd just have a few on top of houses that exist to marginally offset how much the house takes from the nuclear grid.
@FinalOverdrive Not to mention #NPP's can't adapt to #Climatechange as #France sees with most of them having to shut down from too much heat if they don't want to boil all the fish in the rivers they use...
The Russian occupiers intend to switch power unit No. 4 of the #Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (#NPP) to a "hot shutdown" mode and refuse to put power unit No. 5 into "cold shutdown." #ZNPP
I fear that tomorrow or Thursday we will witness the largest #nuclear disaster the world has ever seen.
The #Kremlin has repeated today that it expects that #Ukraine will blow up the #Zaporizhzhia#npp. That is of course Russia-speak for the fact that they are planning to do this themselves and blame Ukraine.
When the enormous disaster at #Chernobyl happened, it involved only one reactor. The nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia has six reactors. If #Russia decides to blow up all six, it would be one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen.
I truly hope that I am wrong and there are reasons for Russia not to do this. Mainly that the #fallout would spread to Russia itself (as well as the occupied Ukrainian territories that it has now illegally annexed), it would expose Russian soldiers to radiation poisoning and it would serve little tactical purpose.
But this is Russia. They have consistently done things during this war that made little sense, from starting the invasion in the first place to blowing up the dam at Nova Kakhovna, which left #Crimea without its main source of drinking water. So, blowing up the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine is not at all unthinkable, especially now that Russia is losing this war.
On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held an off-site meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant (Rivne NPP)....
"Moscow is not going to blow up the Zaporizhzhia NPP. A corresponding letter has been distributed to the UN Security Council" — Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN
From the "people" who said -
⚠️ We are not going to occupy Ukraine - Putin
⚠️ We did not attack Ukraine - Lavrov
⚠️ We do not strike civilian infrastructure - Peskov
⚠️ We do not use children for politics - Lvova-Belova
Will we see a nuclear accident at the #Zaporizhzhia#NPP after the 5th of July?
Those #Ukrainian who signed contract with the #rosatom has been told to leave the #Enerhodar area by the 5th of July. Staff has been told that is something would happen, blame #Ukraine
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after visiting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), has called the situation at the ZNPP extremely fragile....
1/ The Kakhovka reservoir has reached 'dead pool' only two days after it was breached, and is no longer able to supply settlements or the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. It's expected to stabilise at a drastically lower depth and to shrink the Dnipro's width by kilometers. ⬇️
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Yes, I was thinking of this, too. This is why I am calling for a #UN mandate carried out by #NATO for a #DMZ around #Ukraine's #NPP's, in particular #Zaporizhzhia's (#Запорізька.)
However, from my own experience with pumps, they have a limit regarding the heights. I think they said something like 12 mtrs. (39 ft.)
Regardless, once that limit, whatever it is, is reached, you need completely new (more powerful) #pumps. That is much more difficult than extending #pipes....
...Besides, power supplies and/or transmissions for he new pumps might also be inadequate.
#Regarding#Fukushima, (I need to watch this new #Netflix series), my understanding is that the reactor overheated. This would, in my limited understanding about #NPP's, be what the continuous cooling-water supply would be needed for to prevent.
The #Council should rule that the #Russian aggressor stop the shelling of #refugees immediately and the UN should secure the #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (#ZPP) and empower #NATO to put its decisions into effect by armed measures (Art. 42, #UNCharter).
Zelenskyy holds off-site Supreme Commander-in-Chief?s Staff meeting at Rivne NPP (www.pravda.com.ua)
On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held an off-site meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant (Rivne NPP)....
Nuclear safety situation at ZNPP extremely fragile - IAEA (www.pravda.com.ua)
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after visiting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), has called the situation at the ZNPP extremely fragile....