For almost 60 years, I have…

For almost 60 years, I have been suggesting to Ontario Hydro and its predecessors and various politicians that Ontario had to get moving on eliminating coal and nuclear generation.  The technical ability to synchronize multiple generators has existed all of that time and is now off-the-shelf.

There is no good technical reason not to build many pumped-storage hydro generating stations fed by solar and wind sources.  They would be far cheaper than building or refurbishing nuclear plants.

In the immediate future, transmission lines need to built to carry Quebec hydro to Toronto to directly replace the nuclear sources before a penny is spent to refurbish Pickering or Darlington.

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