Canada bet heavily on hydro as a means of cleaning up its carbon footprint; it is the third-largest hydroelectricity producer in the world. But with the climate becoming markedly drier in recent years, Canada’s utilities are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars to diversify their grids, in some cases leaning on power plants fueled by gas or coal to meet mushrooming demand.
Perhaps Dr. Draken is using his weather machine to suck up all of the water to create a very powerful storm. I hear he plans to call his new land ‘Drakanada’
Canada consumes more primary energy from renewables per capita, then the UK consumes primary energy of all forms per capita. Canada has to lower energy consumption to a reasonable level and it is going to be fine.
Mushrooming demand. What an odd choice of words.
“To mushroom” seems to actually be a verb meaning “to increase rapidly”. I swear, in English every noun’s a verb.