tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3962729967465350493..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Our Moment of TruthThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63588713781924884572016-08-08T08:28:16.263-07:002016-08-08T08:28:16.263-07:00Three weapons you can arm yourself with today. If ...Three weapons you can <a href="http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2016/08/50-mpg-is-now-reality.html" rel="nofollow">arm yourself with today.</a> If this was the minunum spec for all cars sold we would be half way there.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-41953436504057250222016-08-07T19:17:36.261-07:002016-08-07T19:17:36.261-07:00BC Hydro has 11,000 megawatts of clean, renewable ...BC Hydro has 11,000 megawatts of clean, renewable hydro electricity.<br /><br />Used to be fully owned by the province, now partly privatized and being driven deep into debt.Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-39920518244111176752016-08-07T17:47:09.962-07:002016-08-07T17:47:09.962-07:00I remember reading this is in the Democratic platf...I remember reading this is in the Democratic platform. Hillary touted it at a rally funded by the fracking industry. Moooooooooooooo!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-66468693199053811102016-08-07T17:19:28.671-07:002016-08-07T17:19:28.671-07:00The first step in the plane problem is eliminating...The first step in the plane problem is eliminating short hops. I makes no sense at all to fly Calgary to Edmonton or Toronto to Ottawa. High speed rail should be able to do that.Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31767968074763189832016-08-07T17:12:19.150-07:002016-08-07T17:12:19.150-07:00Christ, Dana, I hope not. If you're right it s...Christ, Dana, I hope not. If you're right it should make you grateful you're no longer a young man.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-140086806300829002016-08-07T17:11:20.053-07:002016-08-07T17:11:20.053-07:00@ Anon. I thought about the aircraft problem but I...@ Anon. I thought about the aircraft problem but I have no answers for that. One option is to switch aviation to biofuels only. Produce their hydrocarbons from the surface carbon cycle, eliminating fossil energy. It can be done. Boeing recently began a pilot project to extract bio-oil from wood cellulose. One thing climate change has brought us is dead and dying forests. Everything from beetle infestations to heat and drought stresses are claiming thousands of square miles of once viable forests that previously served as carbon sinks. Now they stand dead and dying, transforming from carbon sinks to carbon bombs as they succumb to forest fires. Harvest that dead wood, extract the energy from it through pyrolysis (bio-oil and bio-gas) before nature can consume it, replant it with more climate change resistant species, kickstarting the carbon cycle again. I've been researching this for years and it is viable, even profitable. With non-essential energy switched from hydrocarbon to renewable electricity we may meet most if not all of our air transport fuel requirements from the surface carbon options.<br /><br />The other high-energy option is the hydrogen fuel cell. Whether that could be engineered to be suitable for aviation purposes remains to be seen. I'm not aware of any demonstration technology as yet.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-14666348728863040022016-08-07T16:10:42.099-07:002016-08-07T16:10:42.099-07:00In any endeavour involving human beings outcomes c...In any endeavour involving human beings outcomes can always be foretold by identifying the course requiring the of maximum folly.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-72160953916410985242016-08-07T16:06:57.493-07:002016-08-07T16:06:57.493-07:00And how about trains, re-introduced to our Canadia...And how about trains, re-introduced to our Canadian Society for travelling this country. So much for electric cars...they are still made using oil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-23550476053976291022016-08-07T14:55:49.475-07:002016-08-07T14:55:49.475-07:00I agree with your prescription Dr Mound. However,...I agree with your prescription Dr Mound. However, you left a few symptoms out of the diagnosis. How will we deal will fuel guzzling passenger aircraft? I see contrails in the sky everyday and that can't be good. Also, the global military machines guzzle a lot of fossil fuel everyday. How would we deal with that? Electric tanks? Electric fighter aircraft?<br /><br />I think we should seriously downgrade the size of our military, agree to worldwide peace where the military is only used for defence and civilian support purposes. We should ground all commercial jet aircraft and agree to use slower, but more energy efficient modes of transport such as electric trains and ocean liners. Would this be possible? I doubt it, but I live in a dream.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com