Gordon J Holtslander

Canada's funding of US nuclear for $2B? will offer nothing but further dependence on US tech, Harper sold off Canada's nuclear tech in 2015 for $5M

Invent $2M bet on hot summers in Canada rather then US nuclear?

In Canada its always cold in the winter hot in the summer. Canada invested $2M in Drake Landings solar thermal that provided heat from the sun to warm in winter by 90%, for 20 years.

Project abandoned because 1st design made critical sensors that eventually failed, inaccessible and too costly to repair.

My guess is that it will continue to hot in the summer and cold in winter throughout Canada.

"$7M that.. would not be necessary if the initiative was to be replicated in another community."

What about learning from errors and creating a technology that works in Canada for Canandians?

#cdnpoli

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/files/canmetenergy/files/pubs/DrakesLanding(ENG).pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/okotoks-drake-landing-solar-energy-repairs-future-1.7148389

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/10/23/prime-minister-carney-announces-major-new-investment-power

Canada's Nuclear Industry and
the Myth of the Peaceful Atom
https://www.ccnr.org/myth_1.html

Oct 25, 2025 at 8:05pmWeb
Show threadsleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞Oct 25, 2025

@pinhman

Absolutely. Drake Landings is amazing and perfectly demonstrates what can be achieved with solar thermal in cold climates. The cost is a drop in the ocean compared to the cash mountain they are throwing at Nuclear and fossil energy.

Sadly the fossil and nuclear establishment would rather bury these success stories, and their governmental partners are happy to do the burying.

#EnergyTransition #solar #nuclear #FossilFuels #SolarThermal #abpoli #cdnpoli

Show threadGordon J HoltslanderOct 25, 2025
@sleepy62 An unfortunate advantage? With global warming becoming even more severe the opportunity to harvest even more summer heat is there?
If there’s a surplus of heat energy captured can it be used for other?
Show threadRyeNCode 🇨🇦Oct 26, 2025
@pinhman by all accounts, the plan was a success and the project lasted longer than planned. Exceeded expectations as they say.
Yet somehow its success was burried under the planned and expected end of the project. It wasn't everlasting and perfect, thus completely unsuitable for anything... Guess we need to keep lighting hydrocarbons on fire in our houses until we're all dead.
Show threadGordon J HoltslanderOct 26, 2025

@RyeNCode Yes, its success is ignored. With summers getting hotter could collector panels do double duty of not only collecting solar thermal energy, but placing strategically to diverting thermal transfer to living areas and decrease demand for air conditioning in the hot summer and capture it to heat home in winter?

Canada says no we can only make investments that support foreigners, oil and nuclear…