Zero, Zip, Nada. Wind output in Alberta on Jan. 2.
I had to rewrite the story at least five times and change my headline three times as the numbers kept falling, ultimately to zero.
And amazingly, in Facebook comments on this story, some people still argue “zero”. One person called it “misleading.”
Also:
Brian Crossman: Being good neighbours
And:
SaskPower seeking 3.9% rate increases this February and next February
Re being good neighbours, Quebec is like Somalians in Minnesota; gimme, gimme, gimme.
The Chinese mirrors also generated ZERO. Those arguing with you are those who grift off the bird grinders and the CN mirrors. We get nothing and they get filthy rich.
Solar in Alberta tells you everything you need to know about government. The only time it will produce much of anything is in the height of summer, when demand is at its lowest. It’s cold in Alberta, the heavy demand is heating season, a complete mismatch with solar. Energy is time sensitive, it is only useful when needed. A bureaucrat goes to some international green energy conference, a moderately competent salesman extolls the virtue of solar and that the fuel is “free” and the bureaucrat is sold. When you know nothing of economics or physics, are too lazy to be a barista, then the only job you are fit for is a bureaucrat. A completely useless human in all respects, a parasite that is nothing but a waste of food and oxygen. 98% of them should be eliminated.
The same weather problems apply to wind. The coldest days in winter and the hottest days in summer are during periods of high atmospheric pressure, and under those systems there is little to no wind. So we don’t get wind power for air conditioning in the summer, and we don’t get wind power for light and heat in the winter. Any meteorologist could tell these blind bureaucrats this, but the ‘crats won’t ask. They believe the guys that have a vested interest in selling these things. Gullibility at 11 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Brian; re: Facebook comments … there are none so blind as those who will not see. Self delusion is a mental illness.
I don’t know what the minimum wind speed is necessary for the wind turbines to turn but I suspect it is greater than 10 kph … wind in Calgary is showing “gusts” to 10 kph here today in mid-afternoon, and having grown up in Regina, SK (the city which rhymes with “fun”) I don’t begin to detect actual wind until it’s above 20 kph. My wind sensory devices are broken/worn out.
Manitoba hydro has a five percent increase starting yesterday and another increase scheduled for next year.
About Brian Crossman’s “Maybe you can correct me about this…” and SK as good neighbour because it has sent money to eastern provinces and exported young people to other provinces.
About the former, the money has been taken by the federal government from the three western provinces and given to the eastern provinces. The “good neighbour” would have given it willingly.
About the latter, I am a descendant of parents whose families moved from SK to BC in the 1930’s. The good neighbour could be viewed as the province that was able to provide opportunity, when needed, to their neighbours who were struggling to make ends meet.
And if counterproductive special-interest groups had not succeeded in infesting so many institutions – not just in BC and Ottawa – the extra pipeline(s) to the west coast would already be there. It’s not that we’re a bad neighbour; it’s just that common sense isn’t common enough any more, and the bad actors are able to seize control.
Why in the name of God are you on facebook?