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I think you are correct that they were government inspectors and apparently they were very through. In those days the contractors would camp out in a finished house until the inspectors signed off that everything was good so they would get paid for their work. How times have changed.

It is interesting that there is little to no inspections. My Dad was a carpenter, he worked on the reserves in Northern SK and MB building houses in the 60s and 70s. At that time there were stringent inspections. You could lose a contract for putting only 3 nails where the contract specified 4...

This is why it is so rough on equipment. All those cracks in the ice don't look like a problem but they can be quite deep and wide. You can't tell when you are driving though due to the fact they fill with snow making them seem ok until you drive over a big one. :( Once it gets too rough the...

I don't miss the Daytons at all. Collapsed spacers and sheared valve stems always made for a long day.

G2G, it doesn't matter. The ice roads beat the hell out of everything. When I used to run the ice roads in the NWT back in the 90s the first things that left Edmonton at the beginning of the season was a couple of pallets of trailer springs and a couple of pallets of welding rods. Most companies...

In case anyone else is interested in the Addley Precision SMLE scope mount I will say that it is a well engineered piece of kit. If you buy the installation kit along with the mount it can be installed on your kitchen table with nothing other than a drill and a screwdriver. The drill bit guide...

Your last point is why I have a gas fireplace that doesn't require any electricity to operate. It may only heat part of the house but it is better than nothing if the power goes out for a long period of time.

That's true, not much longer than to fill my truck. If they can get solid state batteries to work it will be a game changer. If.

True however in a home setting you will still be limited by the amount of current you can get into the house at 240V. Most houses have a 100 amp panel for the entire house, some may have 125 or 200 amp but that is about the max for normal houses. Also the neighborhood infrastructure probably...

Now back to our regularly scheduled submarine replacement discussion. I was going to reference the K class submarines and coal but it appears even they were powered by oil. :)

It is my humble opinion that those plants will likely never open or only produce a few batteries that no one wants and close. Think Bricklin SV-1. The only manufacturer that can currently sell any volume of electric cars is Tesla and that only after they have cut the price multiple times in the...

It appears I was mistaken, Justin said no more exports of thermal coal after 2030.

It is really too bad that trudeau and company won't let us sell thermal coal anymore.

There are a few battery manufacturers working on this. The range in good and the charging time is good but........ what they don't mention is current in rush and battery life. They are going to need a huge charging cable and massive contactors to handle that much current without melting. So far...

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.