Your figures are close, but according to Ontario's ISEO, lowest hourly demand was just over 11MWh in November. Since our hydro capacity is about 1/3 of our nukes, that gives us about 15 MW of capacity before we get into fossils vs renewables.. You're right about coal - it's down to about 2%. But natural gas is cheap; its price right now is about 10% of what it was in 2007. It burns cleaner than coal or oil, and we have oceans of it in Western Canada. So of course the Liberals cancelled two gas plants just before the election to save their sorry hides. That's what I can't stand about McGuinty; he makes grandstanding gestures that will cost all Ontarians billions. He has run our debt up to about $240 billion; California, with three times as many people, has a debt of $620 billion, and many people think it's a basket case. We're proportionately worse off, and we're going to pay for it with higher taxes and poorer services over the two decades. Wasting billions on this foolish renewable scheme was just irresponsible.

Absolutely! Here in Ontario, our moronic provincial gov't guaranteed 20 year contracts to the wind and solar companies at $0.80/kWh. Meanwhile, our nuclear reactors are generating power at $.03/kWh. And because they guaranteed to buy all the wind power that's produced, they end up having to sell it at a big loss. Brilliant! What's worse is the wind turbines, perhaps because Ontario is in the centre of the continent, generate most of their power during the shoulder periods of power demand. At least solar has the benefit of producing the most power on hot sunny days, when air conditioning demand is high. What's the old saying? "First, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he created politicians."

What does Sheldon Cooper think?

Microsoft is no stranger to criticism these days

Regardless of what anyone thinks of MS products, (and I use Win7 everyday, and think it's perfectly fine), my candidate for understatement of the decade.

Contrary to Muller's Damascene conversion, Antony Watt and pals have shown that the majority of NOAA sites in the US are poorly sited (i.e. too close to heat sources and sinks) and that, for some bizarre reason, the NOAA adjusts the results of their best sites upward to match the temps seen from their worst sites. As a result, according to Watt, they overstate temperature rise by about 0.15 deg C/decade.

NOAA overstates warming: study

I don't know what you think you've uncovered here.

Here's a clue: a "fairing" is a piece of equipment on the leading edge of certain vehicles designed to improve aerodynamics. One sees them on airplane engines and motorcycles.

And my sharper point is that people who are only good at English disparage math and science, while people who are only good at math disparage English (and all the humanities), while people, like me, who are good at both, despair at the two intellectual solitudes that have been created.

"how they fair inside their own class"

"Does knowing how one is fairing relative to immediate classmates "

While I don't know how either of you are doing in the real world, it's a pretty fair bet that neither of you would fare very well on an English test.

But I bets both of you can al-jabber with the best of them!

Controlling people's behaviour with light impulses was part of the plot line in last week's episode of "Continuum".

Beer?! That's nothing! They should have tested how much more awesomely creative you are after smoking marijuana. I remember one time, I smoked a joint, and someone asked a question about what to do about unemployment, and I came up with this fantastic idea, and it was just so perfect and then I.. and then.. and.. hey, got any Cheetos?

I not no how to uze internets, but me has gun and can drive the car to beer store.

Never mind. The fact you were able to type and submit it with your head nailed to the floor displays a certain "stick-to-it" attitude that will do you all right in the end.

I remember as a young lad, raised in Canada and speaking the Queen's English (not "that insufferable American argot", as one of my English masters had it), encountering the word "intrepid". Following the examples of metre (mee-tur) and centre (cen-tur), I pronounced it during an oral reading as "in-tur-pid", which brought the proceedings to an immediate halt.I tried to explain myself, repeating "in-tur-pid, it's right there in the book!" to increasing laughter from my class, but the master was sure I was having him on, and gave me a gating. Such, such were the joys..

Lasers are used underground to determine the location. If there are turns, mirrors are used.

Shark-mounted, no doubt.

Both Coors, and Miller, are now owned by canadian Molson.

Actually, not really true. The two companies merged, and control is shared between the Molson and Coors families. So, certain Canadians claim Molson's was taken over by Coors, and certain Americans claim the reverse. Later, they reached an agreement with Miller to do joint marketing, but it wasn't clear from the articles I read if this involved any change of ownership.