No business case, indeed

Climate Cult 25 Comments
Remember when Germany came to Canada for LNG, and Trudeau took their Chancellor to Newfoundland for wind-generated hydrogen?
N.L. vows to chase wind-hydrogen companies for $34.5 million in overdue land fees.

 

And regarding wind power generation, I just posted this.

For 52 minutes straight on Saturday, Alberta’s 1760 wind turbines had zero output and couldn’t charge a cellphone

…. and its’s still showing zero right now, for at least another 24 minutes, and counting.

25 Replies to “No business case, indeed”

  2. It was about -22 this AM here but it’s warming at such a rate and I can feel the springtime running at me, we’ll be back at +4 to start next week and it’s down to crunch time to get those Brandywine tomato plants started, I think I’ve got some very old colored ones too (including “Mr. Stripey” and hopefully some grow either straight yellow or orange) and I’m looking forward to trying those out. I don’t know how germination will be for those kept in a dark cool area for 20 years now… but I’ll consider those to be “extra” and bonus colors if they do take hold. I have sufficient red ones and am hoping for monsters.

    Sometimes I go into the mech room here and I’ll sit down in front of the furnace for a moment, look lovingly at those blue flames and I’ll whisper “I love you” and it’ll flicker back at me in a moment, and I’m warm, and all is good, and Ottawa is distant.
    Your results may vary, but I don’t have to “hope” for wind, this is AB and I know the wind will return eventually, and hopefully before we’re frozen to death, and in the meantime I’ve got the most beautiful blue flames to thank life for in my basement. Have some old ATCO blue matches just in case…

    1. Something like these gems too… from Bridgewater NS .. where my favorite person in the extended family lived her childhood years, my grandmother Julianna, who I called “Jewels” worked in a bomb factory in NS for a couple years during the great kerfuffle and the ensuing flu, then moved west while the going was good, just before 1930, and having survived that, eventually taught me to garden when I was 5.
      https://www.incredibleseeds.ca/products/pineapple-tomato-seeds?

  3. The way Canadians think is so very odd. They’ll keep doubling down on what doesn’t work while ignoring or even punishing what is successful. Some obvious truths :

    -Intermittent green power can never replace baseload power no matter how badly you want it to.
    – oil, gas, mining, agriculture and other natural resources are clearly a Canadian advantage no matter how much you dislike them or the provinces that produce that wealth.
    – the USA is and always will be our biggest customer no matter how much you hate them.
    -EVs and heat pumps would require a baseload electricity capacity and grid infrastructure that we don’t have and building that capacity is prohibitively expensive.
    – The government is only creating poverty, making businesses uncompetitive and risking national unity with their climate change obsession.

    P.S. – I have tomato seeds well over a decade old and most still have a 50% or better germination rate. Remember to save seeds from your heirloom tomatoes that do germinate because tomato seed harvesting is relatively easy.

    1. Excellent, I’m not at all surprised when people I see as having good sense save seeds.
      I’ve saved some seeds from the larger tomatos, I have 2 “new to me” heating mats for starting seeds as well so I’m optimistic, but haven’t kept track in the past as to % germination and will be this time.

      1. marc, where’d you get these heating mats? Sound ideal for a spring gardening project I’ve got in mind.

        1. I bought 2 on Facebook Marketplace with a few seed trays and clear domes for $20 in all,
          there’s a few listed locally here in the $15 area on FBMP but at the stores which sell these like marijuana growers supply stores they’re closer to $40 and similar at garden supply stores. For something being used for 6 weeks each spring, I can see why people buy these then sell them as “clutter” after a few years. They take as much space as 1 folded newspaper.

          1. Thank you, sir! I’ve got a breezeway room that should be perfect for starting plants, but it’s a little cool. These should help.

    2. Well stated, LC.
      marc, LC, I can’t wait for gardening time, which is coming soon here in the Okanagan.
      Paradoxically, my wife and I have struggled to adjust our gardening in this semi arid region, having grown long accustomed to gardening in Alberta for 35 years.

      1. If you can grow a garden in Alberta or Saskatchewan weather then you can grow a garden anywhere. Between late spring frosts, early fall frosts, summer storms, hail, wind, drought, short summer and deer…it has to be the most challenging places to have a vegetable garden. I cheat by having a greenhouse.

        1. And the friggen squirrels.

          I had a garden with lots of veggies, tomatoes, and herbs in pots. Squirrels loved to dig them up. I finally defeated them by rigging mesh netting over all my plants. A few would get tangled up in the netting, unable to escape. I followed a buddy’s advice and taught them the backstroke.

          I used to live trap the squirrels and dump them off in Mount Royal (a rich Calgary neighborhood). All before the prevalence of outside cameras.

          Stopped veggie gardening when the city allowed a three story multiplex to be built next door. It towers over my yard and blocks most of my light.

          1. I have the luxury of not living in a city and having a big yard. Enough room for a greenhouse, veg garden and small fruit and berry orchard. The presence of deer and moose in the area isn’t all bad because we’re hunters – garden vandals in summer become a full freezer of meat in the fall. Oddly there’s no squirrels here unlike other places I’ve lived in Saskatchewan.

    3. lm no green thumb but regardless, when l plant tomatoes, l harvest them. they are prodigeous and very forgiving and when harvested are versatile.
      same with beans, stagger the planting of the bush beans and get the pole beans in on time. l find covering them with a discarded fan cover until they completely germinate and become uninteresting to the squirrels works well too. and they too are versatile, blanch and freeze dozens of individual portions. etc etc.
      the time is coming, y’all feel free to check food inflation figures. and employent figures. and housing figures. and voting patterns.

  4. No worries, China Cuck Comrade Carney has lined up the Trudeau sequel, where he and our silly statist courts give veto power to the Nobody Nowhere “hereditary,” aka bought off by international ideologues, to defy the will of, not just vast majority of native bands who approve of such development, but naïve citizens who think they voted for action from these progressively pandering pontificating parasites, but hey the election is over.

    Suck it up buttercup, timid fearful eastern Canadian big baby boomer collectivist chicken littles, you too are on the totalitarian target list, but owing to your ideological ignorance and messianic mentality, we all take the hit.

  5. ”We will soon all be driving clean, green, cheap, Hydrogen fueled autos…” – Barrack Hussein Obama 2008

      1. heh heh.
        l remember the high school chemistry test tube THUCK!! of the O2 and H just separated by some electrolysis. the instructor demonstrating how fast the reaction is when burned as opposed to separated.
        ya. that THUCK stuck in my head as to jeepers, just a liiiiiiiiitle bit of it in a test tube.
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . , . . . . . . . . THUCK
        l dismissed ALL talk of hydrogen powered private vehicles after that.

      2. Because it “doesn’t” take the energy input equivalent to a gasoline engine to split the hydrogen atoms.

        Ai: Hydrogen gas is produced by several industrial methods. Nearly all of the world’s current supply of hydrogen is created from fossil fuels.

        Yeah … Obama “forgot” to mention that little detail. But in all fairness … he’s no physicist … like Ketanji Brown is no biologist. Hence … this is why the radical left doesn’t know stuff. They don’t even need to pretend not to know stuff.

        1. Funny stuff this green technology. I put up a post yesterday about a study demonstrating that “plug-in” hybrid vehicles actually use about 3X the energy that has been claimed in the past.

          1. The “hard sell” is always replete with lies. Things that “sell themselves” are usually built on word of mouth by (truthful) satisfied buyers.

  6. Solar 1244 production out of 1870 capacity? Between 49 and 60 degrees North in February bull turds!

    1. Ya know … with all the constant video broadcast of the roof of kidnapped Tucson resident Nancy Guthrie … I find it curious that a good green liberal like her has NO solar panels on her roof … in Tucson! Where the sun shines 300 days a year

      Ai: Solar panels can typically operate at temperatures up to 185 degrees Fahrenheit (85 degrees Celsius). However, their efficiency decreases as temperatures rise above the optimal operating temperature of around 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius).

      Huh? Who knew? That a seemingly optimal sunny desert environment is actually NOT quite so optimal for solar? And imagine that … my Ai would not provide any further information… such as … what is the falloff in efficiency with each degree increase over 77deg.F? My Ai suddenly went brain dead. And PS … I highly doubt solar panels can survive persistent 150deg.F rooftop temps for days on end thru a typical Tucson summer.

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