Getting turbines reliable while in salt water proved to be difficult.

Wind or hail storms can destroy acres of solar farms in minutes.

Just like we are the only G7 without high speed rail.

We are the largest and least populated in the G7. We are also the coldest with most severe winters.

Makes little sense to use a high speed rail to connect cities with poor transit. Exactly who will use these rails? Tourists?

LOL. The LA-SF high speed rail has already spent $14B and not laid a single track.

The Toronto-Ottawa rail would be built by the same three contractors that ballooned the Eglinton LRT from $9B to $12B and delivered years late. That was for 20km. Now we want to try 450km??

Estimates now are $90B , so we can safely double that, if it ever gets finished in our lifetimes, while ON land owners corrupt with Dougie and Mark sell us the land at hyper-inflated prices. All for a rail line no one will actually use.

We can already do that distance with electric planes.

We could have overhead wire electric extended buses do the route on current highways on dedicated lanes at high speed, for a tiny fraction of the cost and time, but who gets rich off that?

The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) was a planned community in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada, equipped with a central solar heating system and other energy efficient technologies. This heating system is the first of its kind in North America, although much larger systems have been built in northern Europe. The 52 homes (few variation of size and style, with average above-grade floor area of 145m2) in the community are heated with a solar district heating system that is charged with heat originating from solar collectors on the garage roofs and is enabled for year-round heating by underground seasonal thermal energy storage (STES).[1]

The system was designed to model a way of addressing global warming and the burning of fossil fuels. The solar energy is captured by 800 solar thermal collectors[2] located on the roofs of all 52 houses’ garages.[3] It is billed as the first solar powered subdivision in North America,[4] although its electricity and transportation needs are provided by conventional sources.

In 2012 the installation achieved a world record solar fraction of 97%; that is, providing that amount of the community’s heating requirements with solar energy over a one-year time span.[5][6]

In 2015–2016 season the installation achieved a solar fraction of 100%.[7][8] This was achieved by the borehole thermal storage system (BTES) finally reaching high temperature after years of charging, as well as improving control methods, operating pumps at lower speed most of the time, reducing extra energy need as well using weather forecasts to optimize transfer of heat between different storage tanks and loops. During some other years, auxiliary gas heaters are used for a small fraction of the year to provide heat to a district loop. The systems operate at coefficient of performance of 30.

But it died after 17 successful years (was only a pilot for 4 years) because Alberta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community

is so different that we cannot use bikes here but they can.

But is is different, Norway has maintained bike lanes everywhere all winter.

I guess no one reads the article here either:

But with a limit of 49,000 Chinese-made EVs allowed into the Canadian market at a 6.1 per cent tariff rate, the Chinese auto industry will be strategic in choosing which models to export, according to Frise.

“If they can only export a certain number of vehicles per year to Canada, are they going to want to export that number of less expensive, lower profit vehicles, or that number of expensive, higher profit vehicles? They’ll go for the higher profit vehicles.”

so no, there will not be cheap EVs in Canada, and the Chinese built Teslas and Volvos are already here…WATCHING YOU MASTERBATE.

Any vehicle with OTA access needs a SIM card.

BYD clearly states you can disable OTA in the car menu. If you don’t believe that, it’s easy to locate and pull the SIM card.

They don’t magically connect to data services.

So exactly what is China going to do with exabytes of data on how people drive around? They are going to monitor millions of drivers? how?

Chinese manufactures have no choice, they ship surveillance software when they are told to or they don’t get to sell internationally.

Any serious source for this? How about we reserve the paranoia for our ex-friends down south?

so just pull the SIM card. BTW…most modern cars collect data, and a lot of driving data is collected by your phone.

there are tons of EVs in Southern Ontario.

and in 20 years, nothing has happened. Maybe I’m just not important.

So just disconnect.

OTA can be disabled by user. or, the SIM card can be removed.

In Ontario, sure. Most people stay home in elections, the rest you can buy off with their own debt.

We do read the posts, we have no choice because you spam every thread with China in the title.

This is so PC party intern.

Dude…your China Hate volvo socialism is tiring.

You would rather we send farms to default and throw thousands out of work while we find the perfect trading partner that does not exist.

You have to be a complete idiot to think you can trust any country in international trade.

Also, “And this is why he is bowing to China? Are the China ties strength?” is a bot or macro, either way, fuck right off and stay on Facebook.

Those private jets cost $30M to buy, but they cost $5000 an hour to operate.

nah man…I want everything and pay for nothin’.

LOL… sell at a loss to one of the Vaughan Canadesi.

We use brother printers. I used a microscope to prove they mix colors with black toner just to drain color toners when you chose the B&W option.

How is this legal?

He leads the law makers.

Why do Ontario voters keep this guy in office?

Because Ontario is cold Florida full of MAGAs, and the majority of people don’t vote and prefer to take it up the ass.