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I can't disagree with anything you said. At this point I am just hoping things go better than we expect.

I found Calibre Magazine's take on things quite interesting. I am not as optimistic as he is but time will tell.

Further to what I was saying earlier about the lack of transmission lines in Alberta and the 'green' electricity generation usually being in an area where you don't need it, here is today's hourly cost of constraint report from AESO. Their website doesn't make it easy to do screenshots and that...

I am pretty sure that Wab and wisdom are pretty far removed from one another.

I wonder if he plans to beat the $24 billion dollars in additional debt the NDP racked up last time they were in power or does he have his eye on the near $80 billion the NDP racked up in a single term in AB? Searching the landfills would be a great way to start wasting taxpayers money.

I can't find anything current about CanaPux. I think the idea was dropped a few years ago. It would likely work fine and have the added advantage of not requiring diluent but I think there is enough pipeline capacity out there now. Enbridge said they could increase their Mainline by a couple of...

I would guess the wells would be much cheaper to decommission. Bring in a service rig and cement the casing and you are done. With wind turbines what you see is only part of the problem. The massive concrete bases that weigh 100s to 1000s of tonnes are another problem. Also at least you can use...

One of the problems with trying to get high efficiency from nuclear power is that nukes generally don't produce high enough steam temps to get into the 40% range. Compare that to the last 2 big coal units that were built in AB, they are 'supercritical' units with extremely high temps and...

This is very true. If you want some pictures of the future of the areas where there are currently wind farms simply google abandoned Hawaii and California wind farms. They got on the wind train in the 80s and 90s, now there are literally 1000s of broken and falling down wind mills scattered all...

This is incorrect. The government absolutely did the right thing here. The main reasons they paused were lack of transmission capacity and frequency issues. If you look at the AESO website for the last few weeks you will see the cost of constraint on some days was well over $100,000 to either...

Thanks for the reply. I certainly found out how hard it to get a modern scope mounted on one of these rifles. I went to several gun stores and inquired about scope mounts and they told me nothing is available. I was a little surprised by this considering how many of these rifles are out there...

I am looking for a scope mount for my grandfather's BSA SMLE MK III*. He bought it already sporterized sometime in the '50s. It currently has a low side mount scope bracket with a Weaver K2.5 on it. I like to take it out and shoot it now and again but the scope doesn't seem to have any...

+1 on Linux. As a shift worker I got tired of Windows 10 rebooting itself without my permission while I was working since you could only designate 18 hrs out of 24 that it wouldn't do that. Also after 'upgrading' my old quad core from Windows 7 to 10 which pretty much stopped it in its tracks...

My biggest concern with EVs and their batteries is that through out history Mankind learns most its lessons through death, pain and suffering. It has taken us 140 years to get ICE cars to the safety levels that they are at now. We have done this because of the sheer number of people dead and...

I'm sure my social credit score is so low as to be not even measurable. :)

People seem to misunderstand EV fires. They are not like the conventional fire where if you remove 1 leg of the fire triangle the fire goes out. In an EV battery fire the fire is not the primary problem and usually cannot be extinguished until the primary problem is solved. The primary problem...

One of the shops in Edmonton is sitting on $550,000 of unsalable firearms. The owner was on the news some months ago talking about it. I doubt he will get anywhere near that out of the 'buyback' but what ever he gets is more than he has now and he doesn't have the storage costs or liability...

The turkeys we raised on our farm were 35-38# live weight and around 30# ready for the oven. They weren't anything like the tiny ones I see in the grocery store. 6-7 hrs was on the low side.

That's an interesting solution to the problem but one that may leave you in a bit of a pickle. Say your Tesla isn't charged and you throw a turkey in the oven for Thanksgiving dinner(6-7 hrs cooking time) and then you notice that you need a jar of pickles to complete the meal, what now? :D

Unfortunately if you are trying to charge say a Lighting pickup with the larger battery pack on a 110V outlet it will take a week literally to fully charge it. There are a couple of people on Youtube showing this exact situation. If you want a Level 2 charger but you have say an electric range...