{"id":2461,"date":"2006-03-17T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/this-wind-study-brought-to-you-by-the-canadian-nuclear-association\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T06:45:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T11:45:05","slug":"this-wind-study-brought-to-you-by-the-canadian-nuclear-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/this-wind-study-brought-to-you-by-the-canadian-nuclear-association\/","title":{"rendered":"This wind study brought to you by the Canadian Nuclear Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a new report on wind integration in Canada, written by <a href=\"http:\/\/conferenceboard.ca\/\">The Conference Board of Canada<\/a>. People are picking up on it, and even the doughty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-focus.net\/\">Refocus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparksdata.co.uk\/refocus\/redesign\/showdoc.asp?docid=95225161&#038;accnum=1\">quotes<\/a> &#8220;<em>&#8230; electricity from onshore wind is uneconomic in comparison with traditional alternatives<\/em>&#8220;. Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>So I read the report, and what do I find in the Preface?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times-Roman\" color=\"#231f20\">As part of an ongoing initiative to investigate energy<\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Times-Roman\" color=\"#231f20\">policy options and the future of the Canadian energy<\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Times-Roman\" color=\"#231f20\">system, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-focus.net\/\">Canadian Nuclear Association<\/a> contracted<\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Times-Roman\" color=\"#231f20\">The Conference Board of Canada to conduct a comparative<\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Times-Roman\" color=\"#231f20\">study of various countries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 experiences with supporting<\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Times-Roman\" color=\"#231f20\">and implementing large-scale wind projects.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;re expected to believe that the CNA would wish to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/conferenceboard.ca\/who.htm\">objective and non-partisan<\/a> report written on wind power, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s a new report on wind integration in Canada, written by The Conference Board of Canada. People are picking up on it, and even the doughty Refocus quotes &#8220;&#8230; electricity from onshore wind is uneconomic in comparison with traditional alternatives&#8220;. Hmm. So I read the report, and what do I find in the Preface? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[705,1200,946,298,1353,1447,281,1308,258,1374,929,657,185,199,993,505,1366,365,1345,480,785,1071,184,1024,1269,217,59],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things","tag-art","tag-canada","tag-cc","tag-cn","tag-count","tag-design","tag-energy","tag-erie","tag-face","tag-font","tag-hmm","tag-nuclear","tag-options","tag-peo","tag-power","tag-proj","tag-quote","tag-red","tag-ren","tag-sign","tag-study","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-trad","tag-ugh","tag-uk","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-DH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}