And their internet posting has been cut by the CPP

OK, but we had a working fusion reactor here before the Chinese visited it, and we had to move it to Vancouver BC and then elsewhere.

So, just maybe, I might know something about this ...

The point is that the primary cause of inflation in our system right now is top execs increasing their payouts and corporate profits by jacking up costs, NOT from 99 percent of the labor force which is less of an impact.

If you actually read the board minutes, you can see that.

Insist on a cashier's check not drawn on a Russian or Saudi or Indian bank.

Just watch over there!

Nothing is wrong!

Trust the computer, citizen!

You mean the Methane industry.

That's what natural gas is.

Methane.

In the 1950s, it was.
In the 1960s, it was.

And in the 2020s, it was.

The cold hard reality is that we'll all be using a mix of much cheaper renewable energy that is more reliable than fossil fuels by 2035, but that the existing power generation curves mean that wind power loads and required operations standards provide power late at night, so they have much cheaper rates late at night.

Today's electric market is nothing like it was when I was a power engineer in the 70s and 80s, nor is it anything like what it will be like in the 2030s.

Set your EV to charge when rates are cheapest - that's when the system is shedding electricity. Over the years, you'll probably live in a house that provides it's own energy (solar/wind) so your entire system may even sell excess energy when it gets the best ROI.

Actually most heat pumps installed in Canada are in the Far North, because they use the new tech and it's really hard to get pipelines to traverse long distances to deliver it to sparse populations. Also why they use solar and wind - better to store the electricity in a battery wall for use, because ALL FUEL HAS TO COME BY TRUCK OVER ROADS and that's really really expensive.

Actually, my sister and my brother in Cali both have on-demand heat pumps for water tanks. It's been a net win proposition since at least 2014.

And it's a net win almost anywhere in the US or Canadian West.

No, actually, China and the US West both get a large majority of energy from hydroelectric solar wind tidal geothermal sources. Most coal is used for home heating and steel or metal fabrication, and someone (*me*) got them to shut down their old coal plants that couldn't be converted to cogeneration (basically twice the power output per tonne of coal, used to heat houses and buildings mostly).

Most Chinese coal consumption is increasingly pushed onto client factories in other countries (like E Europe, Africa, etc) so that they get the emissions and China can pretend they are greener than they are.

Vietnam, Canada (BC other provinces), Norway all are at 20-30 percent new vehicle sales as ZEV (plug-in hybrids designed for commuting, electric trucks, hydrogen (NOT METHANE aka natural gas) vehicles, etc).

Come on in, the water's fine. WA OR ID CA NV will all be at this level of vehicle sales in 2023.

A lot depends on whether or not these existing nuclear plants have enough cool water to cool the reactors. As we all know, this was not happening for some months this year (drought). So they can't really tell you if they will be able to operate next year.

1 - Continuing to operate existing nuclear fission plants is a reasonable solution, in that most of the emissions of nuclear fission is the actual construction of a nuclear plant, and the mining and processing of it's fuel. You already had 20 years of carbon positive emissions when the plant was constructed, so at this point, it's almost - not the same, but almost - emissions free.

2. Building new nuclear fission plants is a very bad idea, as we know that they will create emissions that will take 20 years of operation to ameliorate. Yes, even nuclear salt plants. Don't even get me started on disposal of spent fuel (even sea volcanoes at fold points). It's also very very very expensive - even the cheapest is 20 times as expensive as wind and solar are.

3. Germany and the rest of Europe need to quadruple renewable energy this year (2022) and in each and every year from 2023-2030. Such energy is harder to disrupt (see pipeline explosions etc) and is vastly cheaper and more reliable than any - yes, any - fossil fuels.