Your argument doesn't make sense, because the same thing could be said for ANY reason why zebras have stripes. E.g. if the reason was to provide protection from the sun, you'd still be saying, "to provide protection from the sun? Oh come on that seems silly. It seems fishy that none of the other animals in Africa seem to have evolved black and white striping, yet they too face the same evolutionary pressure."
Beyond that, there are lots of possible reasons why zebras have stripes while others don't:
And finally, some other African animals DO have stripes. Google image search for wildebeests for an example.
Retail rates in Nova Scotia are going up to around CA$0.19. Big industries don’t pay that though, especially if they agree to let Nova Scotia Power throttle their demand when necessary for load balancing (and I could see this working well for a hydrolysis plant).
However, their goal here is to run it on wind in the mid-term. I guess the Germans will pay extra for “green” hydrogen. They have approval to build a 2 gigawatt wind farm. I suspect that kind of approval is easier to get in Guysborough County, which is extremely rural, than it would be anywhere up the Eastern Seaboard of the US. It probably also helps that there is a mothballed tank farm there.
Also, yeah, it’s probably a continuation of the long tradition of Atlantic Canada rolling out the red carpet for mega projects that never quite pan out.
Honestly, I'm kinda sad. As an adult who only games on occasion, the Stadia was ideal. No big console taking up space in my living room, no trying to get my hands on a GPU during the height of shortages and price increases. It was super low barrier to entry.
Of course, I recognize that I'm a niche case and am not at all surprised it shut down, but I will actually miss it.
By the time hydrogen is here on scale, there will be a complete network of EV charging. Hydrogen is too late to the game to take over personal vehicles.
Hydrogen does, however, probably have a future for heavy transportation and in industry
The commercial real estate market is EXTREMELY conservative. They like to find a model that works, and then replicate it over and over again with as few modifications as possible. No one wants to risk their model by doing things differently.
The upside of this, is that once a company builds this into their model it'll just become a standard business practice for them. In other words, inertia originally keeps this from happening, but once they make the switch inertia will keep it happening.
Really, all we have to do is pass a single law that says the government can not raise more debt.
This is moronic. Debt is essential for paying for infrastructure - it allows something with a 50-year lifespan to be paid for over 50 years, i.e. by the people who actually use it.
Also, government debt is essential to geopolitics and making sure we don't all blow each other up. USA and China bristle at each other all the time, but they'll never actually go to war since they own so much of each other's debt. Debt ensures mutally-assured-economic-self-destruction.
A car can’t race this plane because it can’t drive over water. Harbour Air provides service between the mainland and Vancouver Island.
It’s a niche application, not broadly applicable to most commercial air traffic, but it certainly makes sense in this case to go electric.
GSHPs are the gold standard in terms of efficiency, but they also come with a much bigger capital cost, and are not possible in a lot of locations due to the land area requirements to run the loops or wells.
ASHPs are the "good enough" answer. They still capture the bulk of the efficiency gains, but have much lower capital costs. Their main problem is that they don't work at extreme cold temperatures, but that's limited to a relatively small area of the world, and in areas where you get extreme cold for only a few days a year it's still more financially-efficient to use a backup heat source for those few days.
The Tao is like a stack: the data changes but not the structure. the more you use it, the deeper it becomes; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.
