I think this is really the crux of what makes our energy different because we have about 200 remote communities. Some of them are off-grid. Then we have the mining installations, and the mines themselves have a much bigger load than even the small communities. The small communities may have a megawatt or less. In some cases, they just have a number of hundreds of kilowatts.
Because we can attack both the electricity needs and the heat needs, you can get rid of diesel altogether. Right now when you have wind, solar, or battery storage, you still have to run diesel for heat. This technology, this renewable, allows you to do both heat and power, and it really does enable economies. Right now there is a carbon tax for mines. Obviously, we'd have to pay it if they're bringing in diesel. This avoids having to pay carbon tax but also avoids having to pay for two different infrastructures. Right now they have to pay for heating and for their processing, but as well there is electricity, and geothermal can take care of all of that.
We do have the technologies to drill those wells, and like any natural resource, some areas are a better geothermal resource than others. But Canadians—I say this with confidence—know how to drill. In that last cartoon about Iceland, they didn't even know how to drill. Now they have nine in 10 homes heated by geothermal. Now, they have great resources there. Maybe we have fewer great resources in Canada, but we have better talent in Canada in the intersection of our marginal resources and perhaps our better resources, but with that talent, that speaks to what the oil sands used to be. The oil sands are not the world's best, easiest oil to get out, but we applied technology to it in our skilled workforce. That's why I'm very confident we can apply our technology with our resources, no matter what quality they are and no matter where they exist in Canada. So mines, coupling us with other heavy industries.... We really are a solution, not just for communities, but for heavy industry as well.