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Ottawa, Ontario
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Edward (Ted) Farnworth is a retired scientist who worked for the federal department of Agriculture. He enjoys writing, has a website Medicinal Food News that helps consumers understand the ever changing field of food, nutrition and health. He has published his first e-book "Peers and Tears," is enjoying travelling since retiring and keeps busy sailing, cross country skiing and gardening. Too often he finds himself yelling at things he hears on the radio about the state of our country.

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Electricity in the Future

January 20, 2018

The move to get more electric cars on the road has me worried.

Maybe I just don’t understand. One day I hear that we have so much electricity that we have to sell excess to other jurisdictions. But we in Ontario also at the same time pay, if not the highest, very high electricity rates. Much of our hydro bill is due to debt we have incurred over the years to increase capacity to satisfy demand. Then I hear that eventually we all are going to drive electric cars. If that happens, it means we will need even more electric capacity, so we need to build more hydro-electric facilities, more solar energy farms, more windmills, or more nuclear plants. Based on our record to predict demand and capacity in the past, I worry.