Recent content by YZT580

that would be one hell of a big hole to reinforce if it was to be any good as an icebreaker. The 212 is 74 meters long. The new Polar class 2 will be about twice that length so your pool would have to stretch from just forward of the engine room almost to the point where the hull starts to...

I can see wanting a refueling station somewhere around or north of Goose or possibly in conjunction with a permanent detachment in Greenland. Its a long commute from Iqaluit to Halifax if your gauges are showing empty or if the ice flows are in your way.

you really think so? Seems like they would be good locations for recharge units or satellite parking for people in high-rises where they can park overnight and charge their batteries. Most of them are on corners so traffic can come at them from at least two directions even if it is a divided...

and then uber all over in the ICE driven Toyotas.

Would you expect otherwise from Donald. The U.S. actions in Venezuela demonstrate that they have a closer affinity to China (with Tibet) and Russia (Georgia, Ukraine etc.) than they do to any other western nation. But even if they didn't, Carney pulled the rug out from under the Alberta/U.S...

I believe the reason for the slower speeds is more because CN won't authorize it. Dedicated trackage is definitely required to achieve consistency but just as important is frequency. I would say that the route is well-used and it is actually used a lot by families travelling 60 miles or less...

the biggest problem we have is we always think complicated. Set a telescope at 3 degrees and use a FPV to keep your a/c on the ball(hell you can rent a surveyors scope and dial the angle in with no questions asked. KISS is the key to success. We don't have the financial resources to protect...

Don't be so confident about this. Pearson had a problem with a chap operating one of those jetpack parachutes a few years back. He would launch and climb out into the centreline of the approach; scare the hell out of two or three (no more) a/c on approach and then disappear again. Don't...

thanks for that.

There aren't many left that are just all round good as she was.

The best solution I suspect will depend upon the when of development. Kitimat is already there and can start quickly so that balances out some of the expenses of transportation, plus it boasts access to the entire Asia market. Dauphin could certainly us the industry and would be good once...

we already have a plant in Kitimat that could desperately use the business and they had their own hydro-electrics; probably be cheaper to re-vitalize it since the local tribespeople are already investing in it

its like rental housing; If you don't own it you don't take care of it.

not suggesting anything but having spent years involved in government contingency planning I discovered that whenever there was a crisis someone would dial up the page labelled emergency procedures and discover that it called for the used of an ALDIS lamp or a red flare pistol in the event of a...

they would just come up with something else. Isn't that the way of the stumpage fee? and we threw in a police collaboration clause that no one has seen for good measure