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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-31 at 17:51

So our new sludge pipe is up to $50,000,000,000.00 now.

The "Billion" with a "B".

Yet another massive subsidy for #FossilFuels

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/31/news/exclusive-finance-minister-freeland-trans-mountain-pipeline-loan

[#]ClimateChange #cdnpoli #EnergyTransition #Billions

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-28 at 17:47

What a surprise!

"Lawyers say there has been a surge in U.S. citizenship renunciation inquiries surge in Canada"

https://www.vicnews.com/news/bc-noticing-trump-bump-as-americans-reconsider-their-citizenship-7785357

[#]cdnpoli #bcpoli #uspol

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-27 at 19:36

Seeing lots of discussion on how #DeepSeek is much more efficient at training on data sets. Wondering if it is also more efficient at general operations. ie does it still require the power of a small city to generate a silly haiku?

[#]AI

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-25 at 18:26

Cory on #CBC Day 6 nails it!

@pluralistic

[#]cdnpoli #Tariffs #enshitification

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/16123612-a-radical-plan-fight-u.s.-tariffs-build-export

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-23 at 20:56

Wishing all of #mastodon a Happy Lunar New Year!!

Year of the Snake!

(seems somehow appropriate for 2025)

[#]ChineseNewYear #tet #LunarNewYear

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-22 at 17:43

We're doomed...🤦

[#]uspol #cdnpoli

https://www.tiktok.com/@jimmykimmellive/video/7462601866258418990

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-21 at 19:25

"No. 1 polluter, China, was already far ahead of the No. 2 polluter, the US, in the transition to renewables. But with Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris Agreement (joining just Iran, Libya, and Yemen) again, halting wind project permitting and leasing, and issuing a series of foolish executive orders favoring fossil fuels and putting obstacles in the lucrative renewable sector’s way, it looks like China is poised to leave the US even further in the dust."

https://electrek.co/2025/01/21/china-solar-wind-2024/

[#]solar #renewables #energy #uspol

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-21 at 19:14

This clip is getting more aligned with reality with each passing day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS-4y7YAulM

[#]uspol #cdnpoli #southpark

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-21 at 00:23

Elon Musk "accused" of making what "appeared" to be fascist salute...

ie....someone said someone might have done something bad...

Because we at the #CBC are incapable of assessing things for ourselves and reporting on them.

Shameful..disgusting..

[#]cdnpoli

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-10 at 19:46

This is pretty cool. 4GWh of storage without the need for critical minerals or advanced materials Not a new idea but a much larger and more sophisticated implementation.

For reference this one "battery" could power the entire city of Calgary for 4 hours.

https://electrek.co/2025/01/10/long-duration-compressed-air-energy-storage-project-just-got-a-1-76b-doe-loan/

[#]engineering #EnergyTransition #energy #energystorage #renewables

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-09 at 19:49

So if #Trump chokes the Canadian auto industry can we please have cheap Chinese EVs like the Australians have?

At AUD30K thats around 12K cheaper than the cheapest new EV in Canada.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-giant-brings-first-ev-for-under-30-000-to-australia-20250108-p5l2vb.html

[#]EV #Australia #Cdnpoli #BYD

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-08 at 21:42

So this is where we're going?

[#]cdnpoli #USPol

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-08 at 20:05

And here it is:

"The sweeping plan would include fast-tracked approvals for new large nuclear plants and small modular nuclear reactors, the province said in a news release. "

Not a single mention of #Renewables. Just another full bore effort to push #Nuclear as the great savior. This has nothing to do with teriffs. Its just another proposal to prolong the #FossilFuels ecomony while funneling money to another obsolete industry.

Now, before the nuclear cheerleaders pile on, if he had said we would do research into new advanced reactor designs that wont break the treasury and wont generate toxic waste then Im all in. But thats not what this is.

[#]EnergyTransition #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-nuclear-energy-trump-tariffs-1.7425674

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-07 at 17:30

"Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science"

[#]Science #Misinformation #FossilFuels

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-real-reason-people-dont-trust-in-science-has-nothing-to-do-with/

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Written by sleepy62 on 2025-01-07 at 03:40

This is good news:

"Chinese gasoline consumption dropping by 4% to 5% a year."

No wonder the fossil oligarchs are freaking out..

free link: https://archive.ph/tROuB

[#]ev #FossilFuels #EnergyTransition

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Written by sleepy62 on 2024-12-11 at 17:39

One of the best aspects of #solar PV power systems is that they are scalable. A mesh network of many small scale installations networked together is much more resilient that a centralized hub and spoke architecture.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-renewable-powered-microgrids-help-towns-weather-hurricanes-wildfires-and/

[#]energy #EnergyTransition #ClimateChange #engineering

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Written by sleepy62 on 2024-12-09 at 23:26

Producing as much power as Site C at 1/3 the cost. Also distributed around the grid for greater diversity of supply and less than half the time to build.

Now lets see some off shore wind farms to harness that pineapple express!

https://www.barrietoday.com/business/bc-selects-nine-wind-power-projects-to-boost-energy-supply-by-eight-per-cent-a-year-9930306

[#]windpower #bchydro #renewables #bc

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Written by sleepy62 on 2024-12-09 at 17:20

Hey #Severance is coming back!

Dystopian workplace drama.

https://youtu.be/_UXKlYvLGJY

[#]TV #Scifi

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Written by sleepy62 on 2024-12-03 at 18:25

One thing I noticed immediately after switching to #EV is how much better the air quality in the garage was. No more toxic fumes emanating from the car while it cools down. We can even put a smoke detector in the garage which you are not supposed to do with gas cars parked in there!

Given all of this its a wonder that attached garages are even a thing.🤔

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/03/investigations/neighbourhood-gas-station-sick-benzene-health-canada

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/healthy-living/guidance-benzene-residential-indoor-air.html

[#]AirPollution #FossilFuels #garage #cdnpoli #housing

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Written by sleepy62 on 2024-12-03 at 07:37

So I decided in fit of irrational exuberance the other day to update the Version of #Kodi on the old #android box. Went from 20.0 to 21.1.

I dont know why I did it. I hate upgrading software, especially when everything is working fine, but I did it. After upgrading, about half of the video files in our library no longer played smoothly, all choppy and gross.

Flapped around for a couple of hours trying to figure out why. The forums all seemed to say "oh your hardware is too old" which to me is not sensible since version 20 worked just fine and there was no obvious change with 21.1. Anyway I ended up having to remove 21.1 and reinstall 20.5. Because it was a downgrade all the settings, network shared etc where lost as well as all the plugins were gone.

Never fix something that is not broken!

[#]TV #Kodi

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