Comment Meta just has the sads we ignore them (Score 1) 54
Have fun just having really old people, Meta!
Have fun just having really old people, Meta!
I mean, it sounds like the seventh level of Hades from my viewpoint.
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!
What I get from all that is natural is the cleaner alternative to coal and oil. I suppose the only people advocating that natural gas was "clean" was the natural gas industry.
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.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau
