Where I've Gone Wrong- and Changed My Mind Where I’ve Gone Wrong, and Changed My Mind My disclaimer always says that my articles are written by a human, and humans have been known to make mistakes from time to time. Point me to where I’ve gone...

I do my bit for the environment by composting most of my ideas.

Here's a few examples of where I've gone wrong and had to change my mind.

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According to JD Vance, the pope doesn't know theology. The pope has several related university degrees. JD Vance has none.

According to Pierre Poilievre, Mark Carney is poorly educated in economics. Dr. Carney has a PhD in economics from Oxford. PP? None.

Dunning-Kruger? Confirmation Bias?

Development charges pay for public infrastructure necessary to support new development
Are the feds now picking up the tab, or is the property tax base expected to cover it now?

If you existed, she'd be looking forward to a good roasting in hell, given your boy Jeebus's attitude toward hypocrites (per the Goatherder's Guide to the Galaxy, revised version, Matthew's section)

CO2 Utilization is an Empty Promise Image produced by generative AI, using the stolen works of millions of artists. TL&DR summary: CO2 is a low Gibbs free energy product of energy producing reactions.

CO2 + $$$ ==> 💎 + O2
🍺⬆️ AGW ⬇️

Problem solved, right?

Right?

Here's why the U in CCUS is a false promise. www.linkedin.com/pulse/co2-ut...

One container (TEU) of LFP battery cells can store and return about 27 000 MWh of electricity over their lifetime- as much as 270 container-sized tanks of diesel fuel.

Renewable energy is about reducing GHG and toxic emissions. But it's also about energy security and resilience!

An image showing that one container of solar panels (1 TEU) can replace the electricity generated from 42 TEU containers of diesel fuel over their lifetime.

One container of solar panels shipped to Toronto, can generate enough electricity over their lifetime to replace about 42 container-sized tanks worth of diesel fuel (4200 MWh).

Why is anyone paying attention to Xitter any more? It's a fascist cesspool!

Batteries and solar panels and wind turbines, much less the wind and sun to power them, don't need to be constantly shipped through the Strait of Hormuz

Just sayin'

Here's what a Cheetolini voodoo doll looks like when exposed to flame. Made of fat, starch and hot air, and hence a considerable flame. As much as I avoid practices based on poor or absent evidence, in this case it was worth a try!

Anybody MAGA who calls themselves a Christian had best read the Gospel of Matthew and understand what Jesus thought about hypocrites.

Let's not for a moment imagine how bad it would be if we substituted hydrogen for that methane...scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1861

Somebody dropped their watch!

Trolls and bots Canadian and otherwise, have been distorting the message of the brilliant speech @mark-carney.bsky.social gave at Davos. So here's the speech's main points, explained by AI so a 5 yr old can get the gist: spitfireresearch.com/mark-carneys...

Tough to imagine how any American listening to that Davos speech could have heard anything other than the ravings of a dementia patient, crying out for the 25th Amendment. Checks and balances better start checking and balancing, pronto!

How anyone could listen to that Davos speech and not hear the ravings of a dementia patient crying out for the 25th Amendment, is totally beyond me. Wake up, Americans- your president needs replacement, immediately.

Here's why DAC will NEVER be a solution. Making fuels from their combustion products using electricity is thermodynamic idiocy. Using DAC as the CO2 source doubles the stupid.www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-direct-air-cap...

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I was interviewed by Krissy Holmes on CBC Newfoundland On the Go last week in relation to several H2 to ammonia to rich, dumb Germans projects that have recently been cancelled. My commentary starts at around 12:30 into the piece www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

You're supposed to comply, do what the masked men with guns tell you, and get onboard the boxcars, and take a shower when ordered. Fuck that, fascists!

Here's why I think biofuels are the obvious solution for shipping and aviation- not fuels made from their combustion products using electricity, because that's thermodynamic idiocy. But it won't be cheap...www.linkedin.com/pulse/short-screed-biofu...

Why Can't Batteries Store More than Four Hours Worth of Power? TL&DR Summary: they can. But the economics of energy storage depend on the application, and no energy storage option makes cheap kWh unless it is used to deliver enough kWh.

Why can't batteries store more than 4 hrs worth of electricity? Well, they can- but how frequently you cycle them, determines how cheap each kWh returned from storage will be. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ca...

Blue Hydrogen Reconsidered? TL&DR Summary: blue hydrogen will be cheaper than green hydrogen for the foreseeable future. But the risk remains that the product will be much cheaper if we ignore the fact that it’s not blue, but ra...

Time to reconsider blue hydrogen? Blue Hydrogen Reconsidered?
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There, I fixed it for you, nuclear bros. Seems you failed basic data analysis and statistics, or at least ignored it when it didn't make a happy story for your industry. Nukers aren't getting cheaper in China- they're just way cheaper to build there than anywhere else. Like everything.

The "Ocean Cleanup" is as Dumb as Direct Air Capture (and that's saying something) The Ocean Cleanup is as Dumb as Direct Air Capture UPDATED: 7 Aug 2025, to fix typos and to repeat myself about real solutions, because commenters simply will not click on the links to other articles ...

This one really touched a nerve. So many people want to believe...#hopium addiction is widespread. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-...

I saw this and thought it was wryly amusing. Didn't see it on X- I'm done with that platform permanently.

Much better, and more likely to make money, if you do what Monolith is doing, and sell a valuable carbon product for $1/kg, than to bury it at any level of subsidy imaginable. And they're within 100 miles of 40% of ammonia users in the USA, so they have a market for their hydrogen already.

That's a statement of pure #hopium if I've ever heard one.

ER-6 Battery Pack Replacement ER-6 Battery Pack Replacement I converted a 1975 Triumph Spitfire to a fully electric vehicle in 2014. The project is described here, including the specifications of the motor, inverter and other comp...

The ER-6 battery pack has been replaced. Elon-free silent roadster motoring is back on the menu- with twice the range! The old pack is going into a solar installation where it will likely last another decade. www.linkedin.com/pulse/er-6-b...

Hydrogen by Methane Pyrolysis TL&DR: many are pushing the idea of heating up methane until it falls apart into carbon and hydrogen. That can be a smart way to make valuable carbon products, but doing that isn't easy- and it will n...

Methane pyrolysis is a carbon-producing technology. Make a valuable carbon product? Then you will make money, maybe- but the scale of your H2 production will be limited. Throw away your carbon into low value applications? You will not make money. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog...

As Canadians do their best to buy Canadian, it's worth pointing out how much the CBC has been a constant presence throughout our entire lives.

To me, Canada wouldn’t be Canada without the CBC. And I hope it never is. Don’t forget to vote tomorrow ❤ #vote #canadastrong @savethecbc.bsky.social