31 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors”

    1. Never tell you that they don’t work in the darkness either.
      Need generators at night.

  2. Huh? That’s surprising.

    John Kerry said the fastest growing, highest paid, career is “Solar Panel Technician”. So … why aren’t the “Solar Technicians” out there squeegeeing the snow and ice off the Solar Panels? Sheesh … they wouldn’t even have to pay the Muslim and African refugees “Solar Technician” wages to keep em clean.

    1. First they have to be properly trained at a snow removal technicians academy, then join the Unions of Snow Technicians and Dog Breeders of America, AFL/CIO, THEN they can be loosed to perform their duties.

      I was going to apply but no one will answer my query as to whether we get a long handled broom and scraper,or have to work off of a step ladder. I hate step ladders, unsafe.I personally would prefer a boom truck, but that might run costs up considerably. But perhaps as this is an essential industry, cost is no object,bring on the boom trucks.

  3. “The freezing weather has rendered its 30,000 wind turbines to idleness.”

    That’s a lot of bird choppers.

    1. Anyone who has worked in frozen country knows that when lakes freeze over, wind pretty much stops. I worked in areas in winter where the only wind was supplied by a spinning prop, or whirling blades of a helicopter, or you on a snow machine hell bent for leather, ’cause it’s fun..

  5. This is what Blackie wants for Alberta. People in Ottawa are real smart. The Toronto Star told me that, so it must be true.

  6. The hidden story in this picture is not so much the fact that they are covered in snow. Even if they were operating 50% of the time, (ie always sunny except at night) , the absolute desecration of the environment – so much space for so little benefit – is appalling.

    2. Greg, the hidden story is Germany is buying elec from Europe…you know…the countries that are using coal and gas

  7. A helicopter running on fossil fuel spraying a chemical made from fossil fuels onto a wind turbine made with fossils fuels during an ice storm is awesome.

    Luke Legate
    @lukelegate
    Stupid is as stupid does

  9. Driveway guy could be hired for snow clearing.

    httpss://duckduckgo.com/?q=flame+thrower+driveway&t=brave&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DcPWMluZdB4M

    1. His graphs show data from late February and early March 2021; it is now mid February 2021.

  11. All those people Blackie has planting trees during the summer, need something to do during the winter.

  13. Spare me the BS.
    In an article from the Calgary Sun today by Ricky Leong https://calgarysun.com/opinion/columnists/leong-no-the-eastern-bastards-might-not-freeze-in-the-dark
    “…the same message would likely fall on deaf ears in places like Quebec, where the vast majority of people rely on electric heat. The same goes for B.C., where a large chunk of the population uses something other than fossil fuels to stay warm.“

    For BC’s Lower Mainland it’s electricity, anywhere else propane, oil or evil wood. Outside the major centers in Kaybec propane, oil or wood. And Blackie doesn’t fly to surf in Tofino in an electric airplane, or drive an electric vehicle from Victoria to get there. Bets it’s a whirly bird burning jet fuel (better refined diesel) from Fort MacMurray, one of the major products of the “Tar Sands”(tm), that is sent down the Trans Mountain pipelines direct to BC. In fact, without Trans Mountain shipping fuel and lube oil to BC, nothing would move in or out of BC, by air, water, rail or road, so shut the hell up BC!
    I’m fed up with the virtue signalling, taxpayer paid, pensioned, expensed fops we call politicians who decide for us what transpires in every day Kan-eh-duh. We don’t need their permission, nor the UN’s to fire up the BBQ, or drive to Mack’s Milk at -25 C to pick up some …..milk!
    As for Kaybec, they claim eco creds on hydro power. Read this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7046-hydroelectric-powers-dirty-secret-revealed/
    They still drive gasoline and diesel vehicles, trucks, cars, quads and seadoos and snow machines (that’s you Bombardier) trains, airplanes, ships, chain saws, CAT’s, Jimmy’s, whirly birds et al like everybody else, so STFU about “Tar Sands”, because the biggest product refined from “Tar Sands” are the fuels of industry and air travel to Floreeduh every damned winter from Moan Real….diesel fuel and jet fuel.
    Ontario (Tronna in particular) can STFU as well on their so-called eco creds. If the oil sands were situated at Oil Springs or Petrolia in SW Ontario, Lake Huron would be a lot bigger than it is today.
    The “green” movement is criminal. Time to treat them as such, especially at -30 C.

    1. I call your attention to this BBC article. Could these be a better proposition than windmills and solar panels. they can be used to distill potable water from sea water as I believe Israel does. Used to power lights obviously. power shipping etc. Unfortunately our leaders who cannot think and the false media will call it a nuclear power station and run it into extinction as a cheap and useful producer of electricity. We could people the arctic, providing small outposts with fresh water and power
      https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0931jtk/the-nuclear-lighthouses-built-by-the-soviets-in-the-arctic

      https://en.wikipedia.org wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

      2. You get more bang for your buck with a Slowpoke. Host it in your basement, warm your toes in the coolant…..H3O. Quiet, too.

  14. Just have Trudeau’s pres conference in the middle. All that hot air will clean them off in no time.

  15. I’m not here to defend solar energy (the price of electricity speaks for itself – Ontario pays upwards of 40 cents per KwH for solar), but cleaning snow off the panels isn’t exactly rocket surgery. After a snowfall I go over to our RV and sweep the snow of the panel used to keep the batteries charged.

    As I recall, Germany shut down its nuclear reactors following Fukushima. Pity.

  16. As for those snow covered panels, why are they not arranged vertically on a building, down town Tronna (anywhere), especially on their south facing, waterfront condos? On a gimbal, to track the sun at a minimum? Thirty stories of vertically arranged solar panels maybe better than farmland at least. Still, at 46 degrees north latitude inneficient at best. What do you do for lights for 12-14 hours, lithium batteries? Forgot they need lithium for cars.
    Maybe check what they make them solar panels out of and what’s done with the waste panels. What’s their life cycle? They’re not recyclable by any stretch, but neither are windmills and their blades. They bury them, to get rid of them. Out of sight, out of mind.
    Kan-eh-duh has a Province with the richest grades of uranium in the world. We ignore it. But then we build nuclear power plants on fault zones, outside our most populous city.
    The Japanese built theirs close to water and planned for the highest wave. Forgot land sometimes sinks on one side of the fault zone…..a lot.

  17. You know, beyond all the obvious disadvantages that have already been discussed, mining all the necessary component materials and putting these batteries and panels together is done at an absolutely horrific (and actual) environmental and human cost. Then, when we’re done with these non-recyclable POS’s, assuming they haven’t gone up in some massively toxic smoke when they burn up, we haul them BACK across the ocean and dump them all back in some third world country desperate enough for cash to take them, causing yet more (real) human and environmental catastrophe. All so pretty folks over here can feel all good about themselves with their useless solar panels that will never produce enough power to offset the power produced making them and driving their ridiculously impractical rolling virtue signals. And never taking their eyes off their phones, and their idiotic trinkets, etc, etc.

    Twisting the narrative around a bit.

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