{"id":15933,"date":"2020-01-12T07:46:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T12:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=15933"},"modified":"2020-01-12T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:18:33","slug":"this-is-why-i-did-wind-power-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/12\/this-is-why-i-did-wind-power-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"this is why I did wind power instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oh_pickering-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"07:32 - This is a Province of\nOntario emergency bulletin\nwhich applies to people\nwithin ten (10) kilometres\nof the Pickering Nuclear\nGenerating Station. An\nincident was reported\nat the Pickering Nuclear\nGenerating Station. There\nhas been NO abnormal\n\" class=\"wp-image-15934\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oh_pickering-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oh_pickering-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oh_pickering-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oh_pickering-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oh_pickering.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update, a few panicked minutes later<\/strong>: false alarm. Still no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opg.com\/news-and-media\/media-releases\/\">news release from OPG<\/a> or province-wide phone alert to stand down, but there is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Important update: the alert regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pickering?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pickering<\/a> Nuclear was sent in error. There is no danger to the public or environment.<\/p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ontario Power Gen (@opg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opg\/status\/1216345783831879680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as a reminder, you can get potassium iodide pills for free if you live within 50 km of an Ontario nuclear installation. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/preparetobesafe.ca\/\">preparetobesafe.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"996\" height=\"630\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-36-07.png\" alt=\"50 km buffer from GTA nuclear stations\" class=\"wp-image-15938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-36-07.png 996w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-36-07-320x202.png 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-36-07-160x101.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-36-07-768x486.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><figcaption>50 km buffer from Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations. Includes all of Toronto and much of the GTA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"662\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-46-49.png\" alt=\"50 km buffer from Bruce station\" class=\"wp-image-15939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-46-49.png 517w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-46-49-250x320.png 250w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-from-2020-01-12-08-46-49-125x160.png 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><figcaption>50 km buffer from Bruce station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know if I should be including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=46.0351&amp;mlon=-77.3671#map=9\/46.0351\/-77.3671\">Chalk River<\/a> in this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Further update<\/strong>: yup, they retracted it. But a scary <em>wee-waa-wee-waa<\/em> siren while the text is read in a robot voice is not very reassuring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200112-091132-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"EMERGENCY ALERT \/\nALERTE D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122URGENCE\n\nThere is NO active nuclear\nsituation taking place\n\nat the Pickering Nuclear\nGenerating Station. The\n\nprevious alert was issued in\nerror. There is no danger to\nthe public or environment.\nNo further action is\nrequired.\" class=\"wp-image-15941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200112-091132-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200112-091132-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200112-091132-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200112-091132-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200112-091132.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Issued 09:11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update, a few panicked minutes later: false alarm. Still no news release from OPG or province-wide phone alert to stand down, but there is this: Important update: the alert regarding #Pickering Nuclear was sent in error. There is no danger to the public or environment. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ontario Power Gen (@opg) January 12, 2020 Just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"this is why I did wind power instead \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\n","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[645,59],"class_list":["post-15933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-pickering","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-48Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15942,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}