A rare sighting: Global News reports on the renewable freeze-up in Alberta
Meanwhile, they’re idling in Washington…
Another brick sighted.
A rare sighting: Global News reports on the renewable freeze-up in Alberta
Meanwhile, they’re idling in Washington…
Another brick sighted.
She’s a chilly one folks. The Toon is gonna hit -35C overnight. Don’t forget to clear your furnace combustion air pipes out of the frost…my pressure switch went on the furnace tonight and I had to go out and clear the frost!! Stay warm, and burn fossil fuels – we need em to live!
Without them we are dead Sammy, that is for sure.
And bring in your brass monkey.
People will start dying of lack of energy to keep warm. Wait for it.
All in the name of attempting to control nature by extorting billions of carbon tax dollars from a population that is going broke in a country that IS BROKE! both materially and spiritually.
Thanks to the most disgusting PM Canada has ever had, except for his father, who may have been even worse.
Justin had two daddies. Both were vile.
Thanks for reminder Sammy … in Calgary and I just checked mine. All clear so the installers did it right 🙂
Kate – you also mentioned the renewable (targets) freeze-up in France. Related:
“Following French moves to downgrade renewables, Britain now also seems to be jumping on board the nuclear bandwagon.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/12/british-pm-nuclear-push-nuclear-is-the-perfect-antidote-to-the-energy-challenges-facing-britain/
Another brick-
the only way you’re charging a battery at-35 is if you bring it inside.
I imagine the tesla dealership just parks them inside for a few hours or runs them through the hot car wash a few times.
That’s what we used to do with diesel VWs when they froze.
When he asked “any thoughts or suggestions”….I paused over my keyboard for a good 10 seconds before taking the high road and moving on. That, my friends, was my solitary act of mercy for the day.
Your restraint is admirable. I would forward the Tesla owner’s remarks to Liberal Cabinet minister Stephan the Gullible, and entrepreneur Elon Musk. Remember that your tax dollars subsidized this man’s unfortunate purchase. The only reason that Tesla exists as a car company is because of US government subsidies and the only way that most people can afford a Tesla is because it was subsidized or they are privately wealthy and don’t care about how much money they burn.
I am a massive ‘climate change’ skeptic and am very aware that the ‘fear’ is nothing but a socialistic global wealth distribution scam. That said, Tesla’s are awesome and, whether you agree or not today, EVs will be the vehicle of the future for the majority of the population.
In 20 years, we will be 85% EV. The technology will improve, costs will decrease, and as a society, we will go nuclear……However, even today, a Tesla can be purchased for about the cost of a normal mid-range ICE…..no subsidies required. My extended family owns half a dozen in total, and we’re quite middle class without ‘money to burn’.
My Calgarian brother drove his Tesla non-stop over the past few days. Certainly, there’s some adjustments to be made in extreme cold weather, just as there is with ICE vehicles.
The advantages of EVs are very clear to the majority that drive them in the most common use case scenarios. I’ve spent lots of time in S. California recently, and EVs account for 25% of the vehicles on the road. In the massive traffic jams there, it’s awesome knowing that many of the vehicles in bumper-to-bumper traffic aren’t emitting anything from their tailpipes as they sit in traffic. In certain cities, like Mexico City, EV’s will transform the livability of the city, as the yellow haze that one can see when looking down from higher elevations is primarily the result of vehicle exhaust.
IMO, It’s not a reduction in CO2 that matters…. It’s cleaner air, specifically when the power generation is relatively pollution free like Hydro and Nuclear.
How will people afford an EV?
a) purchase price?
b) electricity price (governments have to replace the fossil fuel taxes)
c) cost to expand the grid capacity (how will all those electric cars be charged? Those costs will also be passed on)
d) insurance costs for your EV?
Most people won’t be able to afford it, and will have to take public transit.
That’s the gang green goal.
Joe asks ‘how will people afford an EV’?
The same way they afford a $45k base model Honda CRV or a $50k base model Ford F150.
In 2 years, Telsa will have their base model vehicle that will likely sell for about the same as any OEM’s basic ICE offerings. …. Prices of EVs are going in one direction right now…. down. Even with Tesla’s record-breaking production of 1.8 million units last year.
EVs are the future. Grids will have to expand, but the short-term pain to build nuclear plants and transmission lines will be worth the cost. There will always be use-case scenario for ICE vehicles in rural areas…. but they’ll be in the minority in 20 years, and not necessarily due to government edict but due to consumer choice.
I think the change will mirror Standard Transmissions….. 30 years ago, I couldn’t imagine not driving a car with a stick shift…. now, they’re hard to find, even in high performance sports cars.
Keith, sorry – but you are not a dreamer, you are a deluder. Batteries will never like the cold (it’s the chemistry of the thing), never like being shocked/in accident (it’s the structure of the the thing), never be lightweight (it’s the physics of the thing) and NO, NO amount of ‘adjustments’ can ever hope to account for that.
Now, you say when there are traffic jams at least they don’t pollute. Well, maybe not just there. However, they’ve already done their damage during their construction. Further, during their charging there is NOT enough hydro/solar/wind to charge them – so all that has happened is the pollution is moved elsewhere.
But don’t let me dissuade you – go effing buy one and drive down to Lethbridge when it’s -40, let the world be rid of your delusions.
Frenchie,
Who says EVs have to be charged by Solar or Wind? That’s inefficient, costly and unreliable. Nat Gas is OK until Nuclear is finally built.
You’re correct, batteries don’t work as good in the cold, but they work good enough. Brother averaged 160 km per day over last two days in YYC without additional charging outside his house…. and that will satisfy the use case for 80%+ of city dwellers. … Check out Norway. Just as cold as the odd colds snap in Alberta, and they’re just ducky…. and they continue to buy EVs in large quantities.
Pollution is far less when the power is generated from a highly efficient Nat Gas plant (or better yet, Nuclear) than from 100s of 1000s of individual, much less efficient small power plants (ICEs).
EV technology continues to improve. The new Tesla 3 is more efficient than the previous model, both in aerodynamics and battery technology, and its new batteries even eliminate the use of Cobalt. ….
In 20 years, we will look back at this discussion as rather silly…. Just like those that downplayed the importance of the Interwebs back in the mid 90s
Good grief man, how many times do I have to say it? You can’t build this crap without “fossil” fuels. The whole lie has nothing to do with clean air. Wake up.
They don’t make stick shifts because people (younger generations) can’t operate them Keith …… to bad because they would be cheaper to maintain and more economical.
And it’s lovely you own a Tesla.,
Adjustment for a regular car in winter ? Good tires, good battery, and slow down.
All at the owners cost not their neighbor Keith.
Let that sink in.
How much are rents going to go up for all the apartments without charging stations?
Etc, Etc, Etc.
No Keith you may be right but your leaving out the great cost and forgetting your butterfly desires are leaving a big hole somewhere else in someone else’s life.
Almost anything politicians mandate these days is a pile of sht they never get close enough to be shoved into.
And all the lies and coercion that goes along with it. Including guilt tripping children.
So do be a little clearer and more honest with your grander visions of the world.
And I don’t give a fk what they do in Mexico.
I live beside latin immigrant workers and they are more decent, genuine and smarter than many Canadians I know, it must be the car exhaust.
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Wow! You are up to your eyeballs in Kool Aid. …
FYI – Hertz just dumped 30,000 Teslas from their stable. I take that as a hint.
Electric Vehicles are not the answer. Hydrogen power may be. It’s too soon to tell.
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Keith
There won’t be any new nuclear plants built. The gang greens will object to them, and tie them up in so many lawsuits, they’ll never get built.
Expanding the electric grid will take lots of copper. This means new mines. Oops, more mines? Sorry, there’s too many sacred (insert name of plant or animal) at the mine site.
Face it. The left want you on public transit.
Just wait till the whole neighborhood has EVs and everybody plugs theirs in. A transformer or two explodes and now nobody has any power at all. The infrastructure isn’t there for it, and upgrading that will be another huge hit to the taxpayer. Those upgrades should be on the EV owners, in the form of a big tax at purchase, new or used.
Mugs,
There’s not anything new I can add that I haven’t already written before, with the exception that the EV revolution is underway, and would continue even without gov’t mandates/edicts, which I disagree with. Current 2024 EVs are just that good.
However….
As a full-time Mexican resident, I indeed give a fk about what they do here. I travel to Mexico City often and although I enjoy the city, I always end up with itchy eyes and congestion due to the yellow haze of pollution – which is primarily from ICE vehicles, as traffic there is bumper to bumper 16 hours a day. EVs could make a massive difference.
Also, I agree completely about Latin immigrants. My son, who spent much of his teen years in Mexico, now runs a trades related business in Canada and hires Mexicans almost exclusively. He estimates the average Mexican labourer is 2.5 times as productive as his average Canadian worker, all things considered.
Keith…do the math on this,I don’t know the weight of the batteries of a Tesla, but here are the weight stats on a Nissan Leaf with a 1000 pound load of batteries. It takes 125,000 pounds of iron ore to produce one battery, That comes to harvest 62.5 tons from an open pit mine to make one battery for one car!! not including the cobalt from the Chinese owned properties with children at $1.00 a day!!!
And then we have Scoldylox at the UN complaining about her stolen future!
What about the future of the thousands of Congolese children who often die in the cave ins when they are forced to go into small caverns to collect these cobalt nuggets because older teenage children are too big to fit into those tiny crawl holes!
By contrast a small V6 engine weighing approximately 250 t0 300 pounds with a turbo to make 300 horsepower. When a power unit such as this wears out after 300,000 or 400,000 miles it can be stripped of it’s accessories dumped into a metal crusher/shredder smelted down to make another engine block!!! A new ICE engine can be installed for $3,000 to $$5’000, depending on the option(s) chosen and and if the vehicle is still road worthy and never been abused .
Happy Motoring to you and your brother, and develop some critical thinking.
EV vehicles are simply a flash in the pan!!
Ahh, nope.
Aside from using a Block Heater, I added a small Battery Minder to my plug in “accessories”. Found a good spot under the hood of my Duramax, tie wrapped it up good, two small clamps to the Drivers side Battery.
Even though both batts are Odyessy Extremes
Grp 75’s and supposedly good for -61C/850 CCA, I don’t have THAT much faith in any battery at these temps.
The two work in tandem.
-35C…? pah, no biggy.
Many years ago my neighbor basically gave me a Diesel Jetta because he couldn’t deal with it not starting when the temperature got below about 25F.
i spent many mornings sitting in the cold car waiting for the preheater light to go out, only to fail to start. It took a long time to figure out there was a blown fuse hidden in the engine compartment between the preheaters and the switch and the light was connected on the switch side of the fuse. Sitting there waiting for the idiot light to go out, while no power reached the preheaters. VW might have saved ten cents per car by not running a separate wire from the preheaters back to the light. it worked well with a good fuse, but it rarely gets below -10 F here.
Right this very minute in Alberta, wind “power” is producing .35% of its maximum capability. Oh sorry….it’s just dropped to .26%.
You do know that Alberta is in a six month “renewable energy pause” that is slated to come off next month.
Alberta’s renewable energy pause could become lingering stumble, observers say
How about concerns over near zero output from unreliable wind turbines when the temperature drops below -30 C and stays there for a few days?
Just checked the AESO website and the latest report (January 12, 2024 at 21:25) shows total wind generation at 12 MW out of 4481 MW installed capacity. The current Alberta load at this report is 11,514 MW. So, wind is currently supplying less than 1 % of our total requirement at this moment.
Suppose we spent the $33 billion and doubled the wind generation capacity?
I say we should go for the “lingering stumble” and just use tried and true methods of reliable electrical generation to stay warm. (and alive)
Actually it is at times like this where the “pause” looks like precisely the correct way to go. The provincial government should NEVER allow Albertans to get into a position of blackouts caused by green fascist lunacy. And quite frankly they need to say that publicly.
“..project approvals slated to come off in February could turn out to be a crucial stumble that costs Alberta its lead, perhaps forever…”
PERFECT….and thats precisely what Alberta should do.
DROP Every bit of Renewables off
“Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump”
…right alongside with any flippin Leftist Woke AGW Gender Bent moron that promotes this utter BULLSHIT.
Nat Gas – COAL – NUKES.
That is what we should be powering our Province with…not some pixie shit that Murders wild fowl, Destroys landscapes and can’t provide Energy when its required in any usable amount.
We need to stop the fake renewable insanity. They are only renewable because we have the “fossil” fuels needed to make the damn things.
Alberta has 1100 years of coal supply for electrical generation.
It’s sitting there, waiting to be cleaned up. There’s no one to blame but the environmentalists on this file.
They spoke of carbon harming the planet, and the gullible believed the nonsense without seeing the facts.
Yes, such an energy-poor province.
Long overdue we restarted those plants or built clean ones…
If it’s good enough for our CHiCom Infiltrators, then goddamn it, its good enough for Alberta…NO.?
“They” spoke of every breath you take destroying the planet. The first step in the program should be preventing “them” from producing any more CO2.
There is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY!!!
That woman with the EV seemed so surprised that she was getting only half the range in this cold weather. I hope she packed a lunch.
Perhaps she’s having second thoughts by now? If not with this incident, Shirley by the end of February.
Her situation makes no sense, unless she’s living in Red Deer and travelling to Calgary to work.
My brother lives in the deep south in Calgary and drove all day over the past two days without issue. He keeps his Tesla in his garage and charges overnight. Even in -35 today, his range easily exceeded the 180 km he had to drive, with no experience of range anxiety.
However, with a Tesla, even if he needed a mid-day top up, He’d only have to spend 10 minutes at the SuperCharger. ….. The Tesla charging system is quite awesome.
And what is the source of the electricity to charge your brother’s car?
From the Alberta grid….so likely Nat Gas….and, even it was ‘clean coal’, that wouldn’t be an issue, as the coal would likely be cleaner from the generation plant than ICE engine exhaust is….. however, it should….and eventually will be…. nuclear.
Just because one drives an EV, doesn’t make one an irrational socialist intent on destroying the free world with a corrupt wealth redistribution scheme. New EVs are economical, efficient and fun to drive…..all whilst lessening pollution in the big cities.
ICE vehicles are just a clean as EVs. EVs are not economical or efficient. Good grief. He wants to hope his EV doesn’t burn down his house with an unstoppable fire.
Up for a challenge?
Place a hose attached to your ICE exhaust pipe and run it to the interior of your vehicle. Start the engine. Make sure all your car windows are closed. … I’ll do the same with an EV.
Last one alive wins the debate. Deal?
While you’re breathing in your ICE exhaust, you can concurrently perform a mathematical exercise of dividing the amount of Tesla’s produced (5 Million) by the amount of Tesla’s that spontaneously caught fire (about 10 in history) and then correlate that number to the annual death rate caused by air pollution.
If you conclude that EV’s spontaneously catching on fire is a statistical anomaly that really needn’t be included in any serious debate about the future of EVs, then I shall permit you to end our challenge early.
No sir, you are certainly not trying to push your BS here. Just like vegans I suppose, they aren’t trying to make everyone go vegan. Just remove all the choices possible so that only EVs or only vegan crap is available, then voila- we didn’t force anyone, they chose it.
No-one has to do that with petrol cars or meat. You don’t want it, don’t have it – stick to your choice and I’ll stick to mine.
That is why you are called a socialist and are pushing commie doctrine. I know you don’t see it, but we certainly do.
There are emissions from an EV but they are localized at the electrical generation plant instead of at the vehicle.
If the electrical grid is powered by natural gas, oil, and coal, then electrical plant emissions are no more healthy to breathe than what is coming out of an ICE vehicle.
Keith
I’ll take your challenge. But you have to hook your EV window up to the stack from a coal fired plant.
Or natural gas plant.
Joe/Billy,
Much of Alberta’s future additional mid-term electricity requirements will likely derive from the soon to be completed Site C project in northeastern BC. Pollution free….. in the long term, it’ll be Nuclear.
As well, Nat Gas plants that produce electricity on an industrial scale have far superior filtering equipment than ICE. If one would measure the emissions from a Nat Gas plant and compare to ICE vehicles producing the equivalent amount of energy, the Nat Gas plant produces far less pollution. (I don’t consider CO2 pollution. It’s plant food)
Keith
There won’t be any nuclear power plants. The gang greens will oppose them.
If by some miracle, one is started, its costs will balloon enormously. Just look at Trans Mountain pipeline costs. Or any government ship building contract.
The electric grid cannot handle everyone having an EV.
– what’s the cost of upgrading the electric grid?
my brother this, my brother that. You know, once at band camp……
Apparently your brother has a lifestyle of privilege, has lots of money, can keep his car in a garage, doesn’t have to leave the city, etc, etc. Wow, so great.
I ain’t your brother. I don’t have a garage, I am always on the road – so STFU. I don’t have that privilege! I don’t have your delusion.
So ST *F-ck* U…. Is that what you meant? Rather rude of you. I have an opposing viewpoint to you, so I should simply ‘shut up’ and do something s@xually related whilst I mire in my silence? By chance, you’re not related to that RCMP officer that set the pick on David Menzies?
Yeah, sunshine. He’s got a garage. As do the vast majority of suburbanites. Hardly privileged in modern society. And, used Tesla’s with lots of life in them can be had for under $20k USD. Hardly the sole domain of the bourgeoisie anymore. As well, his fuel costs dropped from over $600 to under $150 monthly with his EV – a smart long-term purchase for someone on a budget.
My argument for EVs is that, for the vast majority of city dwellers, they will be the ‘go-to’ transportation choice in the mid-term future.
You appear to travel more miles than then average. Good for you, muffin. You’ll continue to use ICE vehicles for the foreseeable future. However, most of the modern world will adapt and thrive with the ever-advancing technology of battery powered vehicles.
Delusion? I once was, you prat. Indeed, I once thought someone named ‘Frenchie’ possessed the intellectual capability for a civilized online discussion. Delusional I was.
It would seem your viewpoint is based on fiction and fantasy.
I don’t give a crap if you like EVs. You can go marry one for all I care.
What I do care is when deluded people such as yourself think you have the moral imperative to tell me what to do. Somehow only you have the true line to holiness and therefore you are OK with forcing us to come along.
Got news for you bub, worried about global warming – with your attitude it’s going to be a whole lot hotter where you are going. And no, I am not forcing that opinion on you, you can go and do as you wish, leave me the hell out of it.
Frenchie,
It’s strange that, although you appear to be able to read the English language, you definitely are not able to understand what you read.
Not once did I advocate for YOU to purchase an EV. For all I care, you can drive around in your antiquated Ford F 150 with its seat stained with poutine gravy and your stash of urine filled Coke bottles till the cows come home.
Further, not once did I mention my concern for Global Warming. Nay, I specifically stated I am a disbeliever in that Marxist wealth redistribution scheme.
My point is….and hang on to your hat as it’s likely going to zoom over your beret as you again miss it entirely….. that, regardless of any politics and/or concern over the temperature of the planet, EVs would replace ICEs as they will be superior technology. Currently, they are superior for perhaps 50% of all use cases, and equal for another 30%. Eventually, with more improvement and reduced costs, coupled with additional infrastructure, they will make sense for 95% of owners.
So, you can whine, stamp your feet and continue to insult the messenger, but the future has spoken.
You don’t acknowledge the free ride you are getting from not being taxed for your use of the road system. With your heavier than average vehicle, you should be paying a substantial amount of road tax; presently, gas taxes from people driving ICE vehicles are paying for road construction and maintenance. You are paying nothing. That has to end.
Re your previous comment….
“Check out Norway. Just as cold as the odd colds snap in Alberta, and they’re just ducky…. and they continue to buy EVs in large quantities.”
Norway has been “checked out”. Research shows that Norwegians who own an EV also own an ICE vehicle. That would be for when it’s very cold and they want to have a good heater and useable range or if they want to travel any real distance. Norwegians apparently like to virtual signal too. Also note that just the province of Alberta is almost twice the size of Norway.
Nobody gives a f*** about Norway. If you want to sink your money into an inefficient, expensive, and dangerous EV you go right ahead. Just leave the rest of us out of it and keep your battery powered car hobby to yourself.
Webster,
I don’t disagree. Once critical mass has been reached, a special, annual, EV registration fee needs to be paid. Texas has started this already.
Ken,
The numbers don’t lie. 85% of Norway new vehicle purchases are EV. So, even if they do have a spare ICE vehicle in the garage, they’re not replacing it nearly as often as they used to.
As someone who has visited/trained in Norway while in the Army, I indeed give a f*ck about Norway. It’s a beautiful country, the people were amazing, and, as I recall, the young women were stunning…..but I digress.
Just like you can’t stop the incoming tide, you can’t stop the future wave of EVs. Even without gov’t subsidies, people will buy them, as they’re superior technology and cheaper to operate.
You will too, eventually.
And…. Just curious. Speaking of dangerous were you ever driven around in the back seat of a Ford Pinto as a kid?
Tell me how you are going to produce them with out mining, kids in the Congo mining, coal for smelting the metals, oil for the plastics, gas for the plants where you produce them. I could go on and the same applies to the freaking insanity of wind turbines and solar panels. The fact that one could commit suicide by breathing the exhaust from an ICE means nothing as in the atmosphere these days they do not pollute like the old vehicles in the 50’s and 60’s did.
Idiots who wish to destroy our lives need to be stopped. Are you willing to stop them?
Basically he’s proven the same point that most skeptics make, but he’s too obtuse to realize it. EVs are great little boutique toys for those in specific situations who can afford them. They’re good for drones who plan out their drives well in advance, will not deviate from their appointed route, and are willing to go easy on the heat and tunes.
Apparently KM is also inspired by how nice they look sitting motionless in California traffic like potted plants.
As for his comment regarding socialism – the entire EV project has been socialism in action. But it’s okay, because climate!!!!
The proof, Chris, is in real world performance.
The vast majority of day-to-day commuting and traveling for the average driver is under 250km/day. Even with changes of plans/extra stops and lots of heat or A/C drawing on the battery, most EVs today are up to the challenge – even in -30c. If they weren’t, consumers in Norway wouldn’t buy EVs in the numbers they do, regardless of subsidies (85% of Norwegian new car sales are EVs, BTW)
On the rare day where ‘The Average Driver’ (and Average is important as there will always be unique situations where certain drivers in rural areas cannot use current technology EVs) must make an extraordinary detour, then, yes, they might have to use their Tesla software to direct them to a Super Charger where they might have to spend an additional 20 minutes fueling up. The Horror.
Chris, if you’ve ever been stranded in a pollution sink hole like Mexico City, where, on most days, there is a yellow haze over the city due to pollution from vehicle exhaust pipes, you’d perhaps better understand why breathing vehicle exhaust from 100s of 1000s of inefficient ICEs is not healthy.
As an exercise, talk to any old timer about the air quality in a city such as Vancouver in the ’50s when all the houses were heated with coal. Now, imagine how even more improved the air would be in Vancouver if all the ICE vehicles were swapped with EVs, with the electricity for those EV coming from the newly completed Site C dam.
Now, I won’t stoop to call you obtuse. I’ll just suggest you might be slow to understand.
until Nuclear is finally built.
Yeah good luck with that one Keith.
The Green goons hate nukes.
I’ll screen shot this for 2044. I won’t even ask you to verbally admit you were wrong. Just a nod and a shrug will do.
Keith I appreciate you keeping a cool head while some are being obnoxious and ugly in their postings.
One question I do ask EV supporters is what do you do in say 10 years? What do you do for repairs as in DIY types.
How do you recycle the thing as in make plastic coke cans out of it?
We still haven’t reached 10 years from the commencement of large-scale EV production, which was marked by the introduction of the Tesla Model 3 in 2017.
However, just as Tesla recently opened up its proprietary charging network to non-Teslas, so too will they eventually do so for Tesla repair. As a strong believer of free enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit, I think it’s inevitable that there will soon be many 3rd party options for battery repair and replacement that are far cheaper compared to current pricing,
It’s already happening on a smaller scale in the USA with former Tesla technicians realizing they can make more money by starting an independent shop (even if their work is ‘unauthorized’).
As far as recycling…. current hydrometallurgical recovery rates for batteries are over 90%. With more volume there will be greater efficiency.
I was a strong skeptic in 2017 when my techie cousin bought a Model 3 in Vancouver. He’s still driving it with over 180k km and has no plans to replace. His savings using cheap BC electricity and not buying expensive Vancouver gasoline has made his purchase extremely economical…. and the longer he drives it, the better the numbers.
Keith is quite delusional……………trying to tell us ALL how great the EV’s are……..give it a break already…………we do NOT have the infrastructure for these EV dreamers and never will in my lifetime…………take it easy on poor Keith will you? HE HAS DRANK THE KOOL AID AND DOESN’T KNOW ANY BETTER…………..
Not sure why when Keith entitled to his opinion you and others seem to mock him and do the exact same thing we blame greenies for / not allowing the other side to speak without digressing into a kiddie tantrum of name calling?
Kieth McIntosh: “Her situation makes no sense, unless she’s living in Red Deer and travelling to Calgary to work.”
She didn’t give the specifics of her commute nor the age and condition of her batteries nor the rated capacity of her batteries; standard vs extended range. I can’t make any judgement whether or not her situation makes sense. I can offer the helpful tip to pack a lunch if she is using her lunch hour.
So, I’ll take her at her word, that her mileage is about half of her warmer weather mileage, and that she needs to recharge midday to get home. And remember that “YMMV” always applies.
Just remember, elites want this kind of weather more often. No doubt they are high-fiving each other with every degree it gets colder. And when it’s unseasonably warm, they don’t want that.
Why are they elites?
Anybody?
We used to ignore crazy people when they babbled, but now most people listen carefully, memorize what was said, and look for anyone who dissents, dangerous people upsetting the social order.
Aliens are no doubt studying us carefully, they probably like easy conquests.
“Earth, they have the crazy and the stupid in charge, let’s roll.”
The whole switching to this system is ELECTRIC is absolutely insane!
Thinking of perpetual motion and cost of hundreds of thousands of materials just to make it viable on the whole grand scale… trillions of dollars on bad technology.
Far from KISS(keep it simple stupid).
You look at the past architecture of massive movement of materials before our time were generated by some really impressive engineering strategies for the material at hand.
We had vastly more water to move materials as well…much buried in the sands or mud…
Roping technology that was absolutely insane in how to manipulate materials…look at the current technology of truck crashes and the impressive techniques used to move far greater material.
They are Elites because our “civilized” society.
Has forget that once in awhile NO. or fk you leave me the fk alone.
Goes along ways.
That’s why.
Has anyone seen the commercials of VR roblox from Meta?
Technology progresses only as we regress.
Always starts with it makes life easier…..and theres money to be made.
Kids will need a computer to drive for them, console them, create for them, do almost everything for them.
And you must adapt to think it healthy and normal.
When it seems future generations seemingly will drift away into nothingness never knowing any real meaning of anything a free honest life has to offer the good and the bad . The humanity stolen from them like candy from a baby.
Meanwhile we worry about death from exhaust ?
How about surgery free lifetime lobotomies ? Brought to you by yes you guess it government and certain ideologies.
I always get my back up when I hear another human say “adapt”, for some reason I hear learn to smile and suk ck.
Maybe rude but what can I say always best to get right to the gist of things.
Command Economy.
Commanded by retards.
Ideologues are always stupid,for they are willfully blind.
Losses..Energy Losses…
A simple fact of reality..
The much proclaimed “Energy Efficiency” of the Electric Vehicle depends on NOT recognizing the losses of burning fuel to make electricity,to ignore transmission line loss and to pretend that battery charging is 100% effective.
Evil shall be defined as “Compound Stupidity”.
And The “Electric Car” has been “The future of automobiles” for near 200 years..
Just as soon as the Unobtainium is sourced for the required energy density of that magic battery.
The future I forsee is one where we keep our internal combustion engines and ban Assault Style Parasites.
Liberals,Greens,NDP and Conservative..if they dare to decree how I shall live?
Time they moved..
Banished.
A free and independent West is coming.
Dipping idiots in water and letting them run around outside..at these temperatures.
Pure Comedy.
And we will never run out of idiots,especially those who know better than you or I ..How thou shall live.
They’re beyond fixing stupid that they created.
As reality bites and bites harder and harder as they’re hopium falls apart more and more.
Adding additional laws and policies just add more restrictions and confusion.
Big case of popcorn boys…
Ops white privilege showing as this freak show plays out.
I like how ya think John.!!
“A free and independent West is coming”.
Damned straight…!!
After watching the video, I am again reminded, that “You are a retard” should never have been removed from the lexicon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGeAq9rBeY
No sympathy for the excessively wealthy Demoncrap virtue signalling owners.
regarding the unchargeable brick. l swear l saw a legit YT vid some bloke reestablishing polarity in a completely haywired lithium ion cordless tool battery by hooking it up to a good one. demonstrating that the good one was electronically ‘guiding’ the the screwy one onto the right ‘path’ internally.+ve to +ve -ve to -ve as usual with lead acid boost.
Global News: “extreme cold (-35C)” Aahahaha. If the people who work to keep the country running didn’t take -35 weather to be no worse than a bit unpleasant, the less-than-grateful city and coastal populations would find out what “extreme” conditions would be their lot.
Sure, BC’s electricity is cheap. Gasoline was cheap, too, until there were lots of cars and the governments had to start building and maintaining roads, then the gas taxes started rising. Now they amount, I think, to nearly 40% of the total price. Then add the carbon tax to that. And that was with the private sector building gas stations. Government-owned utilities like Saskpower will need to raise taxes to do it.
Regarding Alberta’s electricity: I remember Notley’s NDP phasing out coal-fire powerplants so they could be replaced with the wind and solar stuff, the stuff that is pretty much dead today. Even the solar is useless, since the winter sun is so low in the sky and the days are short.
The “experts” are always the last ones to figure this stuff out. The ordinary guys among us, who know far more about electricity and weather than politicians, knew it a very ling time ago.
Renewables are great:
For an RV or 500sq ft Tiny home in SummerTime
Industrial..?? a Colossal FAILURE.
Solar thats covered w/Snow
Wind that rarely blows in -30C
Said Temporary halt MUST Become Permanent – At the same time Alberta should build new Clean coal plants & begin building modular Nukes.
And we MUST SEPARATE.
Preferably With Sask & Eastern BC.
The history of Site C dam in BC.
In April 2010, the provincial government announced it would move forward on planning for the Site C project, moving it to the regulatory review phase.
In December 2014, final investment decision, approved the construction of the hydroelectric project at a cost of $8.3 billion,
On 11 December 2017, John Horgan, the Premier of British Columbia, announced: “We’ve come to a conclusion that, although Site C is not the project we would have favoured or would have started, it must be completed
In February 2021, the estimated price tag rose once again, reaching $16 billion.
Nov 2023 Nor is Site C out of the woods today. Hydro’s most recent update to the BCUC acknowledged that the safety, scope, schedule, cost, environmental status and overall health of the project remain in the “amber” zone — meaning there are still significant risks to be managed.
Current estimate is to have all six generating units in-service by 2025,
100% over budget, and 15 years to complete
Note: I have not included the preliminary design phase, i.e. the work necessary for the environmental review. A feasibility study was done in 2007. planning started in 1980-1981.
I won’t include all the vociferous objections to this form of clean energy. But please note Horgan’s comment, that the NDP would not have started it.
Does anyone know why gas plants are shutdown now
as mentioned in the TV clip?
Also, how degraded is Solar when the sun is so
low in the sky at this time of the year?
Thanks.
They couldn’t bring themselves to even mention coal.
Living in Victoria, the best EV location in Canada – even if it is a tad cold at the moment – I am surrounded by EVs. They seem fine if you like that sort of thing. So long as it’s a choice, fill your boots. But our grid is going to be increasingly stressed and I am not too keen on paying to rebuild it.
Interesting to see that my hybrid Highlander that was getting 34 mpg in the summer, is getting 28 mpg in the cold in the teens F.