Hearing & seeing so many ads from FortisBC is enraging.
With the exception of safety notices, why are FortisBC ads allowed? They have no purpose except brand promotion. Fortis is a regulated monopoly...
"The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought...Global coral loss, fisheries disruption and coastal infrastructure destruction are estimated to cost nearly $2T annually."
#bioeconomy
#naturalsecurity
insideclimatenews.org/news/1501202...
This is exactly what we discussed on the @energyempire.bsky.social with James Gutman. People are accelerating plans to reduce oil imports to reach Energy Sovereignty.
Uh, in case of Canada, we bought a Transmountain Pipeline for $3.4B, and have now sunk like $30-$50B of public money into it… and now the big idea is maybe do same with LNG… all just as demand in Asia seems peaking…
…so, I hope you caveated Norway route less advised than it was 50 years ago….
If you want popular accounts, This book summarizes the major concerns well.
My concerns include biodiversity loss, carbon balance, water pollution & use, etc…
www.simonandschuster.ca/books/We-Are...
In terms of farmers' "alternative careers"... solar PV landlord?
But (not to minimize that there is real rural poverty & challenge), a huge proportion of USA soy & corn bio-fuel harvest comes from giant farmers.... Tom Joad, they ain't...
The used cooking oil is a vanishingly small resource. Go ahead & use it.
A huge proportion of crops is used for biofuels in USA. Despite that, it is a small displacement of fossil fuels. see extract from WRI pasted below. www.wri.org/insights/inc...
By attacking Iran, Trump has degraded Ukraine’s ability to defend itself AND jacked up the price of oil that Putin can sell.
Gift link www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Oil price spikes don’t affect my family because we drive electric cars. Natural gas price spikes don’t affect my family because we have solar panels. Your family can be like my family!
Thanks, valid & interesting point.
Worth noting too though that that bio-derived diesel comes at enormous land, food security/affordable cost. And it just as if not more GHG intensive than fossil, according to e.g. what WRI has been publishing.... electrificaiton way better
Not that aesthetics are the most important thing in a housing crisis... but I've been pleasantly surprised how much more interesting these buildings look close from the bridge than at a distance
Sean, I really hope you (and fellow Councillors) have some sort of law suit in the works against Sim & Zhou...
To bring the TL;DR up front: there is no particular evidence that an increasing share of wind + PV generation leads to higher prices, and the US states with the largest increase in wind + PV experienced electricity price reductions.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Light, Air, and a Social Stair.
The "Vancouver Stair" is an open and cross vented single stair with the dwelling entrances and elevator opening to each stair landing.
No dark long units, no internal bedrooms.
Green space similar to the houses next door.
I always suspected you were on the take for Samsung….
…. It’s so disappointing, it just makes me want to crack open a clean, cool Gatorade…
Congrats!
"The LNG industry is an economic disaster that will harm British Columbians and Canada more broadly." Recommended piece by Prof Anil Hira and @nickgottlieb.bsky.social
vancouversun.com/opinion/lng-...
The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
"Nearly all BEV owners surveyed (96%) indicated they would consider leasing another BEV for their next car—underscoring the staying power of the all-electric market even amid slowing U.S. demand and the rollback of federal policies that favor the powertrains."
news.dealershipguy.com/p/bev-owner-...
Such a great point about gas power cost estimates….
It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar
Huge since true.
"It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar"
And no, that doesn't yet account for that storied Dunkelflaute. Then again, the typical gas LCOE doesn't account for Putin's whims or other geopolitical vagaries.
Am I reading this right that AVs induced a ~6% increase in VMT? That’s more modest than I would have anticipated/feared
Am I reading this right that AVs induced a ~6% increase in VMT? That’s more modest than I would have anticipated/feared.
Vancouverites, the East Side Story photo exhibition of photos taking by Grade 6/7 kids at Britannia Public Library is fantastic. Beautiful, moving portraits of the neighborhood. At the Britannia Public Library.
A thing you can do in Vancouver (I could not but I know a guy who did) is the Costco Marathon where you run the five costcos and eat a hotdog at each one
The War on Cars*
A) you’re a lunatic masochist reading that…
B) do you believe they are real? Not chatbots? Like you recognize you neighbors & it tracks?
USA! USA! USA!
