Canada’s $11BN Green Energy Project Is A Game Changer
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2023
- A mega project underway in Canada is the Site C clean energy project, this massive hydropower project will power 450,000 homes and is the 4th largest dam in Canada. The Hydro Electric Dam will bring a colossal amount of renewable energy to the country, join us as we look to see if this clean energy beast will succeed
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Did he just say Gigawatt Hertz? Yikes, and here I am thinking it has always been Gigawatt hours😬😬😬😬
I did lmao !!! 🤣
"h" is for hours. "Hertz" is noted at "hz" like in your WiFi that is "2.4 Ghz" as in "2.4 Giga-Hertz". This is an AI script or someone who doesn't understand the difference between Watts and Hertz or Power vs. Frequency. @@tepidtuna7450
AI clearly not quite ready to replace real people yet
It is gigawatt hours
Within the first few seconds, I could tell that this was going to be one of theses videos. At 0:08, that particular spillway should be known to anyone who understands the subject. It is the Giant Staircase of the Robert-Bourassa reservoir located in Northern Québec, near Radisson. It is part of the La Grande dam complex and holds back one of the largest reservoir on earth.
And the dam after is maniq5!! Not in BC but in Quebec
Gigawatt Hertz. Really??? You are a really putting your own credibility to the test. What other facts and figures can we depend on??
Is that an AI reading a script I wonder?
@@greggpon7466maybe also AI generated text lol
In the beginning of the video it supposedly showed various hydro-electric dams around BC. But i dont think any of them were
So I am not the only one with an electrical bacjrmground who has been introduced to this new unit of "power-frequency" by this video? I suck at calculus but this is like dividing the area under the curve by a random number and multiplying by a volume of water
@@dustinboyce25 it is the AI that picked the electrical unit of frequency in my opinion. If you are gonna get the AI to read for you don't be lazy and spell out the words.
Am I missing something here? I distinctly heard GWh stated as "Giga-Watt HETRZ".... I know the "h" stands for "hours" and not a frequency. If you take a look at your WiFi you'll notice that it's "2.4 Ghz" and please note that "Hertz" are noted at "hz" not just "h". Someone needs to check the AI generated script that they fed into their Text-to-Speech AI.
Would be great if the video showed images from BC. Most of the first minute showed Hyrdo Quebec facilities.
Site c looked disastrous 3 years ago. Pollution big time!
giga-watt hertz, eh
hahaha good catch
Yes, if a RUclipsr says something like this then it results in a lot of comments, and that fuels the algorithm to promote the content. Look how many comments this has gifted the channel. I think some RUclipsrs do this kind of thing on purpose.
I live in Washington State just below British Columbia. Our Grand Coulee Dam created Lake Roosevelt that back up all the way into BC. We have joint Hydro controls that benefit both countries. We have learned a lot since building it; locks for river traffic, fish ladders, siltation remedies, and more. Hydro is truly Green Energy that when implemented with latest design tools offers power generation and storage that Solar and Wind can't provide. We have also removed older dams that outlived their usefulness.
So..are you folks responsible of the draining of Arrow Lake Res? The res was almost completely drained last spring and is just now coming back. A pox on you!
@@garymoore3159I live in Washington State - USA not British Columbia - Canada. I had nothing to do with Arrow Lake Reservoir. Originally two lakes 14 miles apart, the Arrow Lakes became one 230 km long lake due to the reservoir created by the 1960s construction of the Keenleyside Dam; at low water the two lakes remain distinct, connected by a fast-moving section known as the Narrows. What you saw was the lake before the dam. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Lakes
Dams are great, they provide power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Long live HYDRO-electric power.
Yes , but not always at a 100% capacity . Even with Hydro there are occasionally very dry periods when it may well reduce power ability and of course the green folk generally do not like them . Canada of course is one of the lucky countries with a lot of water . Not every country has that potential .
They also screw up ecosystems.
its better than nuclear or coal station.@@figplucker908
@@figplucker908Power plants burning natural gas, etc. screw up ecosystems far worse. They need river water as coolant and afterwards the water is much warmer and can store less oxygen for fish to use. Those power plants kill animals that require lower water temperatures. Not to mention that burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gases that heat up the atmosphere and destroying plants and animals worldwide because of more heat and extreme weather events (droughts, storms, etc.).
😂 ask COAL and petrol!! @@figplucker908
If you can do it then Hydro electric is the way to go. There aren't many places left where you can install a hydro dam. Special interest groups are always against every project no matter what it is. Ontario is going to build more nuclear power plants which is a great idea in my opinion. Canada's population is growing and we need more power.
I just saw where the UK is going to go with Rolls Royce micronuclear or mini nukes or whatever they're called. Smaller faster uniform interchangeable parts. Better than sliced bread. I think we need a lot more nuclear if we're actually going to start cutting emissions.
Not sure why Nuclear is used a lot more than it is
After the news that Russia bombed the very large Ukraine nuclear power plant potentially causing a melt down is a great reason why nuclear power is not the answer.
Nuclear is too expensive, takes to long to execute is famous for serious cost overruns- then there is the pesky problem of dealing with waste - closed-loop geothermal, hydropower, wind,solar and storage is all we need to have the energy security we all want - and in case you’re not aware a company in Alberta named Eavor is leading the world in closed-loop geothermal.
@@DougJohns People still scared of Chernobyl. They think nuclear tech has remained the same for the past 50-60 years.
GWh means Gigawatt hrs per year. Hertz is a measure of frequency
I actually worked doing some reclamation of forestry land where they would be flooding. I.e harvesting trees where they would end up under water. The scale of this damn is huuuuuge.
GWh is GigaWatt-hours.
watt hours and hertz are not the same things.
Alberta needs more baseload power to replace its last coal-fired facility and to back up the solar and wind power projects we have which I suspect will purchase the bulk of the energy generated by the project rather than BC itself...
But Alberta, like Sask. have only self produced power. Brain dead I know, but that is the way they think.
Ontario buys off of Manitoba and Minnesota, but that's it, for inter-provincial power share, as far as I know.
We need a lot more hydropower.
By far the best form of renewable, dependable, inexpensive, doesn't require expensive batteries. Naturally environmental activists are bitterly opposed.
By the way the first minute of the video showed the spillway of the Robert Bourrassa dam in northwestern Quebec and the Daniel Johnson dam in northeastern Quebec. I'm surprised they managed to include a picture of Vancouver for a video about BCHydro
Not true environmental groups, but rather front groups for the fossil fuel lobby that pose as environmental groups so companies can continue destroying ecosystems by selling oil, gas and coal. True environmental groups know that renewable energy are the way to go if you want to preserve as much nature as possible
Site c would have cost half as much if they hadn't been tied up in court for so long and had to pay for something they weren't even able to Complete.
The exact same thing happened in Labrador at Churchill. However the people there where not getting what we promised them when they first agreed to the dam the same time the Premier of NFL agreed Danny Williams who was forced to resign in exchange for Harper's approval, but Harper obstructed the rest of the development it was a part of!
BS poitics get in the way a lot in Canasda
@@DougJohns almost as much as the corruption behind all of it!
@@DougJohns British Columbia once the industrial power is no more.
Now we have almost nothing left
We have Government monopolies that spend more money on unneeded advertising than they spend on economic development of this poor province.
ICBC spends 10 millions a year Advertising yet their customers have no choice but to buy from the monopoly just exactly who are the advertising too.
I suggest there's another reason for all that money pouring into the advertising firms.
@@DougJohns I have been living in British Columbia now for 30 years
All I have seen our handful of really rich real estate developers who call all the shots
Liberal or NDP doesn't make any difference
Just the ndps more willing to shut down everything
Government seriously needs to be very happy at forcing the people into poverty
Governments here do everything they can to obstruct everything whether it's real estate development or industry
They don't want the people to be able to afford a home and they can't
No Premier no government as long as I have lived in this province has done anything else.
@@DougJohns meanwhile all the small towns that make up the city of Vancouver pay out billions a years to the politicians mayor's and city councilors Who just continue the destruction for personal gain exactly as the Members of the legislature and members of Parliament do.
The city has hundreds of counselors and 28 mayors mayor's offices.
With 2.2 million people paying for it all
Almost no one able to afford a home because industry is the enemy of the economic force and the only economic force are the real estate developers who bribe them all.
Gigawatt Hertz? Physics has left the chat.
0:00 You meant the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Last week November 15 2023 BC Hydro has said they underestimated the power needs of BC and other provinces , So now they will be looking for projects in BC to help contribute to the underestimated capacity that we really need.
It’s interesting that around the time of this dam’s approval in 2017 there were a number of LNG & pipeline projects scrapped (2016-2018) worth well over $100 billion, funded mostly by private companies.
If everyone in BC starts driving an electric car we will need 15 more Site C dams. The construction of this dam should have been completed decades ago.
You're the only one here who actually sees this problem.
No, we won't.
@@sandorski56 Its actually a simple equation. 1/3 of energy in BC is electrlcity. 1/3 is gasoline, mainly for use by cars and trucks. The rest is hog fuel etc.
If you take away gasoline there will still be a requirement for the same amount of energy if we continue to drive cars. If the cars are EV that means doubling electricity generated ... 15 Site C dams needed. Or 3 typical size nuclear plants ... which won't happen on the Banana Coast.
If we go full electric, I believe we must switch to nuclear power. Aint have enougj river!
At 1:44, I believe you meant to say 4,600 Gigawatt-Hour
In he 1970's the Alberta government did a study to build dams starting on the Peac River and divert water all the way down to the RedDeer River which would provide hydro electricty and wate to irrigate the south with. I would like the Saskakachewan government to work with the Albertan government to get this going.
Which will most certainly never happen with the current O&G controlled UCP in power in Alberta.
I thought dams were bad.
They can be, but if we compare, they are the lesser evil.
only ecoterrorists think that.
@@OdinWannaBe yeah, it's better than the alternatives that are increasing the rate of environmental problems.
@@thuydoan7496For sure.
I love how it is mentioning British Columbia in the first line of this video and then the 2nd and 3rd image are 2 hydroelectric dams from the Province of Quebec.
0:08, the two big damn showed are NOT from British Columbia but in EASTERN CANADA in QUEBEC !
Export the Dam, Chat GPT, Revit, Plant 3D, Civil 3D, Inventor, ENGI file of the Build-ing or Refinery to Excel, prepare Budget 1 and export it to COBRA. Prepare Budget 2 and export it to Microsoft Project. Solve the problems of Overallocated Resources, Planning Problems, prepare the Budget 3 with which the construction of the Dam, Building or the Refinery is going to be quoted.
Is that ELECTRICITY, or POWER, to 450,000 households? In the UK we are told that a wind farm or solar farm will supply x number of houses with energy. But this is replacement electrical energy. In the UK average household energy consumption is split approx 20-25% electricity / 80-75% gas. They don't tell you that only the electricity part will be replaced by these renewable sources. What is going to replace the gas? Fossil fuels going nowhere soon.
BC has been dependent on power from Alberta during peak demand. Site C will go a long way to meet the growing demand for power in BC. Unfortunately with the projected population growth I feel we will always be dependent on Alberta for power in the future. I contend that immigration to BC should be reduced to allow infrastructure to keep up with demand.
The power will all be sold to California, not BC residents
If there is excess, so what?
@@sandorski56 it wasn't built for BC to begin with
In time it will be.@@seanreid349
It was built to make money
@@louisschueler7608 if the bums pay their bill sure. but in the meantime bc hydro does everything they can to raise rates to pay ffor this.
I live in BC, and bought an ev due 87% of electricity here already created by hydro-electric generation, with that going to over 90% when site-c is online.
There is absolutely no way to keep all special interest groups happy. It could be the absolute best solution possible and some group would be complaining. We need to be able to develop what's needed without the foolish delays caused by endless challenges and studies, some sort of time limit after which(if proven invalid), there would be no more attention given.
I sure hope it has a way to let migrating fish to pass through without killing them. If so them I am for the project.
I think that they have that part worked out ok... many dams in BC with fish ladders including the dam already on the same river.
They are building the PUFOS facility. Which will catch the fish tag the fish and release them up stream. A fish ladder was not a reasonable option because of the height
GWh is the abbreviation of GigaWatt-Hours and not GigaWatt-Hertz. Watt is physical unity of power and hour of time. Power multiplied by time equals energy!
"The British Columbia province of Canada" lol
It was an honest mistake. 😆
Such projects are a thousand times better than coal & oil refineries, and provide clean water, and clean & cheap energy.
As long as there’s water level to support any hydroelectric plant
Very interesting. By definition lands around big rivers have a very good chance to be goog/amazing lands for differents reasons. On one hand, we have the necessity to act on diminishing emissions, on the other hand the necessity to hear people and evaluate the burden on nature of such enterprise. Mercury contamination from the flooding is very real, on those big projects it could be considerable. There's probably some economic boost that could be interesting for some people, but yeah... Again, those are necessary projects to be inserted in a vaster bigger picture where all alternative to fossil fuel must be considerate, the "not in my yard" philosophy feel thinner and thinner as time go by where global warming feel tangible more than ever.
This is impressive indeed.
They need to move this power off river. Dams really do kill the river
Yes! Hydroelectric Dams are the best renewable energy source.
No. They do mess up ecosystems pretty bad.
@@LOGIBEAR01 It does hold the Water to conserve Water Resources any excess of Flow is there can be handled by the bypass Canals from the Upstream to prevent flooding of the dam and ensure safe passage of aquatic life from upstream-downstream.
Probably more beneficial to future generations to produce this same power flow with molten salt thorium small modular reactors instead of thousands of cubic yards of concrete producing thousands and thousands of tons of co2. And that is without all the diesel haul trucks. Instead of 50 lbs of radioactive short lived waste not even needing moved. Come on people help yourselves.
So here in the US we are removing dams for fish. Canada is building a new one claiming green energy. Interesting.
Some folks dont like pipes, some folks want a free lunch.
11 billion dollars to create power for 1 million people. Mmmmm that makes sense lmao
Over what period of time tho
Dam has 80 year lifetime
Canada needs a transCanada transmission line for renewables. Provinces can share electricity back and forth. We can advantage from low cost wind and solar PV in every region interconnected to our cities and our industries.
Its a nice thought but most provinces can't stop bickering long enough to put taxpayers first
11 billion to power 1 million homes? That seems like a lot ...
Oh only 450,000 homes?
from BC, never even knew about this dams existence lmao. Great video
me too... BC hydro has many dams ...I live close to one at stave lake...
GWh is gigawatt hours. It is the product of power and time which means it is a measure of energy.
GigaWattHertz, what's that all about then?
Hydrogen should be made with the surplus energy streams of dam energy. Hydrogen pipelines are needed, as well.
There is a shortage of power. There is no surplus energy to support such a plant. Through lower power demands such as over night they sell power to other markets in a short bases
We need it.
So why is there transmission equipment labelled in cyrillic (at 9:06) in a video about a Canadian hydropower project (last time I checked, Russian was not an official language of Canada)? Maybe pay more attention to exactly _what_ stock footage is used?
Gigawatt Hertz LOL
Not to mention it cost more than double to build what it should have and took 3 times as long as long build as it should have because they kept getting taken to court
I like thermoacoustic energy generation. You can get way more power for absolutely nothing and not flood a whole area like that.
All this talk about cutting co2 and resources so we build a damn ?? How much concrete?? Lol
BC should build more hydro power stations for the future.
Greenies lose their minds over pipelines but stand back and cheer the monstrosity that is this hydro project with it's devastation.
Wasn’t there some questions on the ground stability around the dam?
'Hydro' isn't 'green', its hydro power. Not the same as unreliables.
That can’t be good for the fish and environment
Production ideas goodnight
Gigawatts hertz?
How about gigawatt HOURS?
Somebody should have edited this voice over.
1:45 that's gigawatt hours.
Giga Watt HOUR!!!
How is this green energy if they terraformed that huge place
Green in a pig's eye. That machinery, and the mining, manufacturing, transportation, construction to put that shit show together doesn't run on fairy dust. Photosynthesis is the only green energy.
Do not call this GREEN when it floods 10,000 acres of forest and habitat never to be recovered. I agree this is a huge amount of cheap electricity. Do not call this as Green, this dam is low environment impact but there is a environmental cost with dams.
oh and its ballooned further to now cost more than #16 billion!!!!
😡 1) The electricity was never needed. 2) The destruction of this farmland, which is / was a productive area due to it being a locally important microclimate. 3) Some useless bureaucrat wanted a dam named after him / her. The site C dam never should have been built. But isn't that the way of our governments? They always do the wrong thing.
I worked at this circus from 2018-2022
Flooding a valley that has trees and vegetation which will be decomposing under water and producing CO 2. Was any of this included in their claimed carbon reduction. Is this plant anywhere near 1 million homes? I don't think we are being told the whole story.
The project with this hydro power energy based on 60 m high dam and 1050 m length will expand the reservoir on 83 km length and this will displace many peoples and habitat from the land occupied for only 4.6 -5.1 TWh/year. This energy can very well being produced using natural gas on volumes 18000-20000 BOE/day and Canada is reach with natural gas and crude oil.
Based on GDP forecast and energy production forecast if the hydro-power will generate 3.2 B $ plus 160 Million dollar locally and generate 4.6 TWh/year, the customers must pay 0.73$/kWhr which is clearly a big burden for consumers.
Hydro-gravity energy is considered environmentally clean and this may be based on old conceptions. Displacing peoples and habitat from the land is not social and environmentally friendly, and on addition to these Natural disasters are a risk when weather forecasts can not be done on 100 years, and the earthquakes never will be forecasted, so more risk for peoples who live downstream the dam location.
Today the world can easy produce clean energy with environmentally friendly technology without displacing peoples and habitat and without building expensive and dangerous dams. This technology is levitation to gravity energy generation which can be used everywhere and reduce needs for energy transmission network. Investors and government are welcome to seat and further discuses the new clean energy invention based on physical levitation engine and gravity generation.
or 2 candu nuclear reactors
GWh -= gigawatt hours, not gigawatt hertz
Here's a fun fact that illustrates just how far we are away from being fossil fuel free; if all of the logging trucks in BC switched from diesel to electric power we would need twelve Site C dams just to power them.
Here's a NOT so fun fact; we're fuct.
How many times did the citizens of BC try to have it shut down. Nobody will ever benefit from this ecological catastrophe- cause the oil industry will be gone in 10 years.
Sorry, but gWh is not gigawatt hertz, _it's gigawatt hours._
It's just 1.1 GW...Not something to be reckoned with....Even countries like India are building 30 GW renewable energy projects...Just showing how much the West is doing for global warming reduction... These countries should have done this many many years ago....
Gigawatt Hour Not Hertz
WTF is gigawatt HERTZ?
Lets not give trudeau any credit, this was started long before he was in the picture.
GWh = Gigawatt Hour
Glad you didn't miss your chance to mention Global Warming. Aren't dams bad? Something wrong with nuclear generation?
GWH is not hertz it is hours
Site c is power for Alberta's oil sands. That's what it's really for which is why they haven't add capacity to the lines
amazing what the british settlers can achieve😀
This is a boondoggle. It destroys huge area's of farmland and the dam itself is situated on unstable ground which is already causing problems.
Much of this power will be sucked up by EVs if they ever really take off, or aluminum production, which is reliant on electrolysis.
Canada is 4th in the world in aluminum production and the most green due to our levels of hydroelecticity.
The carbon output from silt in dams is massive. Let’s talk about that.
Dam right.
and the extreme levels of CO2 output from the concrete along with transport of those materials to site, the cleanest (in terms of CO2 output) cheapest and most stable form of energy will always be nuclear, stats for the UK show nuclear power costs 4p per kwh versus 32p per kwh for solar or wind and 20p for hydro but the greens have managed to shutdown almost all of our nuclear generation which is why our energy bills stand 400% higher than 3 years ago
Lost me at 4600 GWHz.
This situation is absurd and utterly illogical. There is abundant source of geothermal energy right beneath our feet, yet our focus remains disproportionately on carbon-related problems. Instead of complaining, let's redirect our resources towards researching and harnessing geothermal energy. If we can explore deep space and develop nuclear technology, tapping into our own geothermal resources for free energy should be well within our capabilities. HaHa you fool!
Environmental concerns are always valid and need to be heard. But public hydro is essential for generations of ppl and generate very little in CO2. They are a priority.
Very true. Hydroelectric power can also complement wind and solar power, making them the perfect combination of green energy
Hydro is NOT green energy. Dams on a river will block sediment from reaching the river delta estuary. Like the Mississippi, the loss of necessary sediment will collapse the river delta estuary. It is happening on the Skagit River in WA state due to the 1937 Skagit River Diversion, which has diverted most of the Skagit River sediment away from the South Fork Delta. This large delta is collapsing due to sediment starvation. Dams and river diversions collapse their river delta estuaries. The science is clear on this. All dams and river diversions will destroy the river due to sediment starvation. We are ignoring the science on this and native fish runs will be destroyed for nothing. All dams die due to sediment filling them up. Sediment in the wrong place. Stupid.
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It would have been much more helpful, if you had detailed not only what energy would be generated but also exactly what the environmental impact will really be. From this, we cannot judge fairly
no smart person cares about the " environmental impact" of a dam. some animals die some animals thrive . big deal.
Gigawatt hertz? Really? Lol
GWh is giga what hours not herz
the powerlines dont even look wireless, cyber future technologies'. like newer than nuclear, like zero point energy
WTF are you on?
Hope they remove all the trees are they will plug up. The turbines