Alberta issues second grid alert in three days, as wind power generation collapses utterly, yet again, at suppertime.
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Luckily, there were only a few oil cars this time. Between Midale and Macoun, SK.
Net zero or absolute zero?
Energy analyst Tammy Nemeth and a co-writer take on Catherine McKenna’s COP27 ideas regarding net zero. McKenna wants to shut it all down.
Y2Kyoto: Schadenfrozen
VW warns soaring EU energy costs render battery plants unviable;
Investment in German and EU industrial projects such as battery-cell factories will be unfeasible if the region’s policy makers fail to control ballooning energy prices in the long-term, the head of Volkswagen Group’s namesake brand, Thomas Schäfer, said.
“Unless we manage to reduce energy prices in Germany and Europe quickly and reliably, investments in energy-intensive production or new battery cell factories in Germany and the EU will be practically unviable,” VW Schaefer wrote Monday on LinkedIn.
“The value creation in this area will take place elsewhere.”
VW plans to have six battery factories in full operation across Europe by 2030 under its battery company PowerCo, which broke ground on its lead plant in Germany in July of this year and signed a 3 billion euro ($3.1 billion) joint venture with Umicore in September for cathode material production.
An outline for industrial-policy cooperation hatched by the French and German economy ministers last week “falls short in crucial areas and does not address the envisaged priorities,” Schaefer said.
Y2Kyoto: Abby Normal
“This season was really bizarre,” said Phil Klotzbach, one of the world’s foremost seasonal hurricane forecasters. “I’m giving a talk to the American Meteorological Society on Tuesday about the season, and I’m referring to it as the most abnormal ‘normal’ season on record.”
Y2Kyoto: End Of Snow
‘Catastrophes of the 21st Century’
Roger Pielke, Jr at Oxford University. (1 1/4 hr)
Y2Kyoto: End Of Coal
@VuslatBayoglu – Southern China’s Guangdong province approved the construction of six coal-fired power plants in less than a month, generating a capacity of 9.7 GW. From 2022 to 2024, new coal-fired power projects with a total capacity of 80 GW are expected to start annually.
From ice we came, to ice we shall return
Ask a farmer about rocks. He’ll tell you all about them. Then ask him where he came from.
The answer is the retreating glacial ice sheet that once covered nearly all of Saskatchewan. The ice melted, the rocks in it got dumped in glacial till (the top layer of our land in nearly all of Saskatchewan). And that’s why your combine just chewed a rock. The climate changed, the ice left rocks, and your combine ate it.
Letter to the editor: 25,000 years from now, most of Canada will likely be covered by ice sheets, again. As it was 25,000 years ago
Hope And Pray They Have Enough Solar Panels To Keep Everyone Alive
On foot coverage of lake effect snow emergency from Hamburg NY! Over 3 feet and counting. Dangerous road conditions. Only possible coverage is on foot. NYDOT vehicles stuck everywhere also @accuweather pic.twitter.com/09XDZafQi5
— Reed Timmer, PhD (@ReedTimmerAccu) November 18, 2022
Seriously, it looks like no fun at all for our readers in the snow zone. Take it easy shoveling out there.
Get Ready To Eat Bugs
That bug plant in London Ontario will have to undergo a major expansion. Not sure how much it will effect my farm yet, although It will cost one farmer 136,000 dollars per year by 2030. But I’m sure Justin’s carbon taxes will save the sacred tree frog.
Y2Kyoto: Schadenfrozen
“Germany is now the largest meat importer in Europe;
While Green politicians have condemned meat eating, the social reality is different, with nearly the entire German population eating meat on a regular basis. However, agricultural and green policies are stifling German meat production, making Germany wholly dependent on meat from foreign countries; this is creating a new dependence similar to Germany’s reliance on Russian gas, which turned out to be a catastrophic mistake.
What the other side is thinking: no more fossil fuels, period
In the interest of publishing what the true believers of climate change think, Pipeline Online published this op-ed from two university professors, one from Concordia, the other from McGill. They want to shut down all fossil fuels – coal, oil, natural gas, now. Period. The article came from The Canadian Press.
If we don’t end the use of fossil fuels, all of the rest adds up to little more than branches piled on the tracks in front of a runaway train. They might slow the train temporarily, but until we get inside the engine and shut off the throttle, the train will keep accelerating.
– Eric Galbraith, H. Damon Matthews
And, in a related note: the assault on art continues, this time in Vienna, in the name of saving the planet from fossil fuels.
The Global Warming Scam
Biden and Trudeau must have the same policy advisors. Because they both say and do the exact same things. I wonder who those policy advisors could be?
While Americans Can’t Afford Heat, Biden Pays Muslim Country Billions to Dump Coal
Evacuate The Room, Lock The Doors, Turn Off The Security Cameras
Then beat them to within an inch of their lives. It will stop.
Y2Kyoto: Pharaoh Way Places
To be green is to live without mirrors.
Diesel?
What’s everyone seeing out there?
GasPriceWizard- Rumours of diesel and gasoline shortages are now playing out in Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg. Some customers are being cut-off and getting no re-supply of fuel, while others are being placed on “allocation” – rationed deliveries
h/t Scott
As Alberta’s wind power generation collapsed this week, so, too did Saskatchewan’s giant stinkin’ fans
On Tuesday going into Wednesday, Wind power production in Alberta dropped to 0.1 per cent of nameplate capacity. And it stayed at 2% or less for about 24 hours. Well, now we know Saskatchewan saw a substantial drop as well.
Burning capital
If solar panels on parking lots were a paying proposition, parking lot owners would be doing it already. Free standing solar panels are a proven money-loser as is, so the added cost of a structure to elevate them over a parking lot is just more destroyed capital. But in the People’s Republic of France, considerations like profit margin are either an irrelevant consideration or downright evil. Sounds a lot like Canada.
“Legislation approved by the French Senate this week requires existing and new car parks with space for at least 80 vehicles to be covered by solar panels. The owners of car parks with between 80 and 400 spaces have five years to comply with the measures, while operators of those with more than 400 will have just three years. At least half of the area of the larger sites must be covered by solar panels.”
Y2Kyoto: Pharaoh Way Places
FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt for COP27;
‘More than 400 private jets landed in the past few days in Egypt,’ a source close to the Egyptian aviation authorities, who asked not to be named, told AFP on Thursday.
‘There was a meeting ahead of COP27, and officials were expecting those jets and made some arrangements in Sharm el-Sheikh airport to welcome those planes.’
On November 6, Ahmed Moussa, a talk-show host close to the Egyptian leadership, boasted on air that ‘Sharm el-Sheikh’s airport welcomed more than 300 private jets. The airport was renovated with more corridors in order to welcome the guests of COP27.’