Are we blind?

34 Replies to “Are we blind?”

1. -22C in Calgary

   Rachel Notley’s solar farms are producing 0. That’s right a big zero.

   Rachel’s windfarms are operating at 2.7% of capacity.

   This is truly Net Zero

2. no wind at supper? Alberta was built to eat dinner on the deck

3. More of this please.

4. I’m sitting here feeling that some Nenshi somewhere is about to plug in one ‘ho ho ho’ing Santa too many.

   Followed immediately by total grid failure and rioting to make BLM blush… Except it’s too damn cold to riot.

   Let’s hope the Montana coal plants are up to our desire to have warmth, cooked food, or clean things.

5. Haha.
   I worked in an old fashioned powerhouse today with 8 generators lined in a row nearly 100 yards long with the constant rumble of water and turbines.
   All kinds of power. Constant.
   Because…gravity.
   Ontario has a lot of stupid, but the hydro electric power supply is pretty awesome.

   1. Ontario has lotsa nuke power, too, and is getting more.

   2. “Ontario has a lot of stupid, but the hydro electric power supply is pretty awesome.”

      Best mass energy production method ever. Nothing else so far has even come close.

      (the key word there being ‘mass’…)

   3. Except, Buddy, we now need to realize that hydro power is not necessarily that eco-friendly. At the very least, valleys are flooded and families dispossessed (not to mention wildlife); clearing the reservoir basin has consequences.
      I agree hydro is often the best solution for electrical generation, but it also comes with costs which need to be anknowledged.

      1. Heck kick me out of a shithole in the boonies and give enough cash to relocate to Florida? I’m with that.

      2. Utter BS. We don’t need to “acknowledge” anything. Hydro, nuke or whatever plants cost some money to install and operate. If they screw things up, that will cost some money too. The free market can deal with it, like it can deal with literally anything.

      3. Maybe it’s time for a serious conversation, is that what you’re saying?

      4. I don’t disagree that there are costs or trade-offs. But windmills and solar are not even worthy to be in the same discussion with hydro. On occasion I’ve worked at a minimum of 7 power dams in eastern Ontario. These places are jewels from the 1950’s. Windmills and solar farms are 21st century turds that progs want to polish, but they’re still turds. And Ontario isn’t Chinah, displacing millions, or Egypt, building dams that fill up with silt.

      5. Niagara Falls is the main source, no flooded valleys there. Dammed sites are mostly in smaller communities. I have a cousin who used to run the plant near Minden Ontario (retired now). He had a house right there with a dock and fishing boat on the little lake formed by the dam. Dragged his hut out in winter for ice fishing. Walked a couple hundred feet to work.

6. The people doing this are not blind.

   The people doing this are evil.

   1. The sad thing is the typical bureaucrat really is so galactically stupid, they believe in what they are doing. The people making the rules that know better, are indeed evil. Those people need wind powered electric chairs. The great thing is whether they fry or freeze, who cares?

      1. I have to agree.

         Hanlon’s razor. Never attribute to malice that which you can attribute to stupidity.

         And man do we have a bumper crop of stupid.

   2. There is shocking little difference between stupid and evil.

      Actually, there’s none.

7. L – When people are down to 1% of their designed capacity. It’s called palliative care.
   Announce that Alberta’s wind farm is in palliative care. Invite wind power zealots to bid
   on the parts of their religious relic. If they don’t make the minimum bird, recycle the
   parts and make a giant duck statue out of them.

8. Didn’t Rachel shut down some coal fired plants? They would look mighty good now.
   And if we had a media, instead of the daily health crisis, maybe every evening news cast could lead off with exactly what % of capacity our expensive wind and solar projects are generating.
   Might seem worth mentioning.

9. https://www.saskpower.com/Our-Power-Future/Infrastructure-Projects/Construction-Projects/Planning-and-Construction-Projects/Great-Plains-Power-Station

   Now is the time for Smith to cut the red tape and get a bunch of these projects going. Now. Natural gas power.

   1. natural gas is a wonderful fuel. But it makes more sense to keep it for heating, and use coal for power generation. Does anyone remember heating with coal? Freight issues, mess, etc. With coal fired power plants, very little movement of fuel, it is used on site. Grid infrastructure built, also gas infrastructure for heating built. We should use what we got already in the state it is, instead of building all kinds of new infrastructure.

      H

      1. At current rates of consumption, AB is down to its last 1100 years of coal supply.
         My guess is that when you’ve found 1100 years of coal, you don’t go looking for another 100 years supply to bring it up to 1200 years.
         So there may be 10k years of coal supply.

         I do agree with using natural gas for stoves, clothes dryers, bbq.

10. Jumping’ Jack Flash
    Where’s the Gas.
    Rachel… get to a nunnery.

11. To all those in Alberta who hate all of us out east:
    Bwahahahhh!!
    To all those in Alberta who are normal folk:
    Good luck!

    Ontario and Quebec outnumber Albertans by a considerable margin, so why are Albertans being punished? Its your own gov’t + the feds. Now go and arrest another pastor, and get rid of due process for more stuff, you clowns.

    1. This. If Alberta can’t even keep its own lights on much longer, it may just as well stop pretending it has any more clue than the rest of the country, and start electing Liberals already.

    2. Here is a good time to remind you that Alberta fired its dictator while ontariowe relected their dictator. Premier Smith is working on righting the Alberta ship. Aeso is staffed with eastern affirmative action hires from the nutly era. Yes Ms Smith did have a part in bringing about the nulty. Hopefully that means she will work much harder to right the ship this time. Time will tell.

12. No one, of course, asks why a Northern Hemisphere country with fewer sunlight hours in the winter should rely on solar (or wind, for that matter) power but I’m sure that’s just a load of conspiracy theory or something.

13. Could it be that Albertans are being groomed by these conservation messages? These conservation messages (in a Province with huge hydro carbon reserves stuck in the ground) serve the global warming, radical green conservationist ambitions. The windmills are a symptom.

14. Wind power sucks and blows at the same time.

15. Why is it that there is this blatantly apparent market demand that is going un-supplied? Is it because nobody has the ability to supply the demand? What forces are standing in the way of market suppliers from meeting this demand?

    When you answer these questions, you will know who hates humanity.

16. Alberta running out of power. Stop running the province like a herd of teenage girls.

17. I suspect Alberta has a similar problem to Ontario. While the province appears to be slightly more conservative overall, I bet the teachers propagandizing your kids are little different than the union scum we have in Ontario. I bet most young voters 18 – 35 will in fact have been brainwashed about global warming from K-12 at least, even if they didn’t get further brainwashing post secondary.

    1. 100%. Just like in the states conservatives need to start taking over school boards in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

18. If you think Alberta is not too bright for doing this, then how dumb is the Sask. govt. for following their lead on something that doesn’t work.