A Canadian Podcast with an "I have a dream" attitude towards climate change, the environment and energy.
We CANDU It
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A Canadian Podcast with an "I have a dream" attitude towards climate change, the environment and energy.
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12/13/2020
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April 22, 2021
Nuclear Energy on Earth Day feat. Mike Rencheck
<p>On Earth Day we take a moment to think about how we can reduce our environmental impacts. Nuclear energy in many ways is the most environmentally friendly way to generate electricity. It's incredible energy density means it has the least amount of mining, land use and waste of any other energy source. </p> <p>According to the IPCC nulcear is tied with wind as having the lowest lifecycle carbon emissions of any power source. However, unlike other clean technologies like wind and solar nuclear does not require any "bridging fuel" like natural gas for back up. </p> <p>Mike Rencheck is the president and CEO of the world largest nuclear power plant, Bruce Power, in rural Ontario. We talk about nuclear's role in driving coal off of Ontario's grid, nuclear energy jobs as a model for a just energy transition for Canadian workers and so much more.</p>
March 31, 2021
Why is Ontario's electricity so expensive. feat Scot Luft
<p><strong>I affectionately refer to Ontario as the "France of North America" with 62% of its electricity produced by Nuclear. However in the early 2000's Ontario embarked on an effort to become the "Germany of North America" by engaging in a renewable energy build out called the "Green Energy Act" which was modelled on Germany's Energiewende. </strong></p> <p><strong>Ontario granted lucrative 20 year feed in tariff contracts to wind and solar investors to incentivize green energy which drove up prices and did very little to drop Ontario's emissions due to energy production out of phase with demand. There is now talk on the federal level of adopting similar politices to Ontario Green Energy Act. </strong></p> <p><strong>In this episode we talk about Ontario's bizarre semi liberalized electricity market, explore the implications of the "global adjustment" and touch on the regressive character of feed in tarriff subsidies for roof top solar and so much more. </strong></p> <p><strong>Scot Luft, a writer and independent data manager producing data-driven analysis on public policy, primarily in the electricity sector. He is also a self described trophy husband, model parent, former retailer and social media addict.</strong></p> <p><br></p>
March 3, 2021
Medical Isotopes? We CANDU that!: Feat James Scongack
<p>Medical isotopes make modern medicine possible. We depend on a steady supply to sterilize medical equipment, as radiation sources for oncology treatments and for diagnostic imaging. Canada is a world leader in the production of medical isotopes and punches far above our weight. Our national research reactor, which closed in 2016, provided a number of isotopes including Molybdenum 99 which treated 76,000 patients a day in over 80 countries. Now CANDU power reactors have been put to the job and crank out enough Cobalt 60 to sterlize 25 billion pieces of medical equipment and 40% of the world's single use surgical instruments. I am joined by James Scongack, chair of the nuclear isotope council and an executive at Bruce Power, Canada's largest power plant, to deep dive this topic. </p>
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