i worked shopped this with my distribution friends:

"we'll need service level battery for the charger, then a pole battery for the service, then a substation battery for the pole"

that sound you hear is the distribution system crying out in pain.

In this case.. sorta. The North would really benefit from the economic benefit (again.. in theory) and there is an element of "indigenous reconciliation" around the same economic side.

The *where* they charge will also be a factor. The yards/charging will need to be co-located with large transmission infrastructure. You cant also have all the "trucking" business close to rather. Too much for distribution.

After knee surgery I asked for extra strength Tylenol because T3 just "flipped a switch" and I was out for 8 hours. No thank you.

how many theses are they up to? which door will they be nailing these to?

i just question.. because MB hasnt had significant rate increases at all.. natural gas maybe? but that should be somewhere else.. that number just seems off. unless its because say food or car costs went down, so therefore as a % it went down.. that doesnt explain the $ amount.

that and Ontario residential rate is significantly higher then MB. so i was wondering if its consumption related. but yeah trying to figure out if its actually on our side.. or all the other costs are changing so much that it influences as a percentage basis

im trying to square this table up. is the category "Water, fuel and electricity for principal accommodation" trying to figure out why MB's number oscillates up and down that much.

conversation: "how long do you figure to build a brand new LNG liquefaction facility, built in the arctic, in a dilapidated port, with population under 1,000 with minimal infrastrucure? oh and we'll have to build a brand new gas pipeline over 1,100km long through tundra".. lets call it 4 years?

Ottawa wants LNG to be shipped from Port of Churchill by 2030, Manitoba Premier says Wab Kinew says the ‘aggressive, ambitious’ target will likely also include a new pipeline to the Hudson Bay region

i didn't realize that meetings between PMs and Premiers had Ayahuasca. because thats the only way to explain this, frankly, absurd comment: "to start shipping LNG by 2030, would include construction of a new pipeline to Hudson Bay" www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Dashboards much like statistics can have it tell you whatever you want. Systems are subject to the whims of those that create, maintain, and manipulate them. Laws are a protection for the defenseless. Sunshine disinfects and if an executive is scared of transparency? That's damning in itself.

Btw this exists in the Canadian context. Whistleblower protection in MB pretty much only covers "probably illegal activities". What doesn't it cover? Mismanagement, incompetence etc. Crown CEO wasting millions? Not covered unless fraud. It's detrimental to public interest only good for politicians.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

i first read this book in 2009, quillandquire.com/review/why-y..., and Rubin got snagged up by the shale revolution, but the premise i think still makes sense. That globalization needs cheap fuels and little concern for carbon. Without those, you need more localized economies. time for a book redo.

I can grumble about some politicians not knowing any better. But Carney? He knows this is bad economics, he knows this is performative, but he's doing it anyway. That's what pisses me off more.

yeah makes sense. i think it will be awhile until it makes its way to areas with more difficult geology.

i had a suspicion that deep geothermal in canada is going to be limited to the areas around the Rockies. here is a visualization from my vacuum thermal collectors used for HW and (if possible) hydronic heating. starting about.. early March it can heat a 2000sq ft space without any backup.

that according to the map gets you 0.5E^18 Joules in heat energy. So 5x less than in the rockies. (im assuming they are doing it basically in the foothills of the rockies similar to map areas of SE- British columbia.

these maps might help.. emrlibrary.gov.yk.ca/gsc/open_fil...

how are the geothermal economics for like.. Paleozoic strata rock down to like 2300m? how deep are wells? /https://www.manitoba.ca/iem/geo/exp-sup/files/fig1.pdf

all i want is ex cathedra opinion, then start excommunicating. thats true old school RETVRN christianity.

"what do you do with all that heat in summer?" you "recharge" your geothermal wells and in later summer early fall you start to build up heat in large thermal battery systems.

where solar thermal (i think) will end up being very popular is in the north. while the solar irradiance sucks in winter, a vacuum tube can still deliver heat in deep sub zero temperatures. when you are creating thermal networks a PVT system make a lot of sense (no research yet to support my thesis)

I think the most useful lesson of economics is just "auctions work really well if you set them up properly". And honestly I try to do auctions as much as possible.

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Every year odometer reading.

can a journalist ask this question: "as an economist can you please explain this decision? and how lowering the price will reduce demand? Wont the increasing of demand simply raise the price back up?"

listen, hes only a internationally renoun economist. how could he know about these kinds of things?