27 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

  2. Calgary’s “only” -31. Positively balmy.
    On the other hand, Vancouver Island and the lower mainland are seriously paralyzed by snow. A quick look at the website for Vancouver International Airport shows flights either delayed or cancelled. As well the roads are totally snarled; very few even think of putting snow tires on their vehicles, and even fewer know how to drive in snow.
    Back in the day, when spouse was studying at UBC, there was a serious snow event. We had winter tires on our car as were heading into the interior (where snow tires are mandatory for about six months of the year), so spouse was okay getting to class. However, the “North Shore” (North Van and West Van) had streets totally clogged until both city councils passed resolutions stating, in effect, that if a car was stuck and blocking traffic and was also found to not have the proper winter tires, there would be serious penalties. Not too many problems after that.

    1. In defense of Vancouver drivers, when it does snow the pavement is warm, producing a layer of water between the tire and road. This creates unusually slick conditions, tougher than if the temperature was much lower.

      1. Not just that. West and North Vancouver are located on the side of the mountain. I was there many years ago after a snowfall. I turned right to go up the hill and my car slid sideways into the curb. I got out and walked the rest of the way.

        The steep hills are challenging for us prairie folk. Except when ot comes to skiing. Lots of good skiers on the prairies. They just have to drive farther to get there.

  3. Edmonton International Airport has all but stopped flights. They are saying that the air temps where the planes fly are nearing -80C and not navigatable. Didn’t know that was the case as arctic travel still happens? This true? Or this all about global warming and the issues that has now?

      1. I heard that the planes themselves are okay, it’s the hydraulics that don’t like it that cold, landing gear won’t come down.

      2. Art

        I think you nailed it. Add in a shortage of ramp workers, plus those with an aversion to working outside.

        Aircraft that fly at 35,000 feet are always in sub zero temps…-40 on the ground should never be an issue whatsoever….haven’t said ramp crews ever heard of heated Gloves, vests/jackets/socks..??

        Tis the way to survive and work comfortably at -35+….just ask any Oil Gas worker….like me.?

        Just pulled 6 hrs tallying pipe/fittings for an LSD….warm as toast in -34 with a 20kmhr wind.

        Gutless wankers ….

  4. Any provincial premier who allows their province to suffer a shortage of power should be publicly horsewhipped. In fact, provincial premiers need to make it clear to the feds that it is their first duty to keep their residents safe and secure….and especially when the feds themselves are the body that demands otherwise.

  6. Drove by two wind farms today where I could actually see performance. One in the Texas panhandle, 4 out of 15 actually turning. One in central Oklahoma, only 2 out of 35 turning.

    Lipstick on a pig.

  7. We’re breaking records, dropping down to -42 tonight. No wind. Little sunlight during the short days.

    Strange, every time we set heat records it’s global warming, but now not a peep. Just weather I guess.

    By Tuesday we’re expecting +7. I wonder if that will be due to global warming.

  8. 7 Km/Hr.
    No where near cut-in speed.
    These giant fans are consuming more energy than producing.
    Where’s that power coming from?

  9. We’re gonna need more batteries. What? They don’t work in cold temperatures? How the heck do we heat our homes? If we only had a supply of energy that was reliable at cold temperatures…

    1. What the Liberals aren’t saying is the masses will not have cars. You’ll be using public transit.

      Only the rich will have EVs, which will be subsidized by taxpayers.

      Thus Trudeau and Singh think there is no need to upgrade the grid

      1. That’s the thing everyone is missing. They aren’t dumb thinking everyone will be able switch to EVs, that is their move to get everyone out of their ICE vehicles, THEN they will break the news that the peons will have shared EV cars at best.

        Watch what is happening in nuclear power. A huge investment in nuclear power and improving the grid WOULD be the way a huge number of EVs could be handled. But, they don’t want that. Hence the playing up of fusion technology that is a long way away from working if ever, instead of investing in making improvements to the already proven fission technology.

        1. Phil

          And on that note…whatever happened to the Thorium based reactors..?? No spent fuel rods to sequester in some cave, no situating near a water source and Thorium is one of the most plentiful minerals on the planet.

          God forbid, we can’t have that now can we eh..??

          1. That is one of the possible improvements I meant. Whether Thorium or something else, the point is that we have the problems we do with current nuclear plants because the government only wanted this technology.

            Any possible angle that would have been safer and not produced nuclear “waste” was shut down and not pursued, because they needed to produce material for nuclear weapons.

            With all of the trillions being thrown around they could develop a cheaper, safer, nuclear fission method, but they don’t want us to have cheap, safe. power. So they play up a fusion “breakthrough” that produced an output 1.5 times the power of the laser input used to generate it, without mentioning that the laser was only 0.066% of the total power used in the whole system.

  12. I think it was back in the early 60’s that my Dad received an achievement award from the Edmonton Journal for living through a 30 day stretch of minus 40 Fahrenheit. Back then it was just called winter, now -37C is extreme cold.

    1. I was there. It was late 60’s and set a record for 35 days below 0F. Most of the time it was -20 and down. Also a bus drivers strike was on. The Journal printed a certificate in one issue that a lot of people kept.

  13. -38 here on west side of Elk Island. Wood stove keeps the basement toasty ( day 3 and counting) and natural gas keeps the rest of our small house livable.

  15. In Sundre, AB yesterday, where my summer trailer sits, it was 43 below zero Fahrenheit. I hope my winterizing was done right.

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