Even in Canada rural ridings have less people than urban, and thus their voters count more heavily. We just have a higher percentage of our population in cities (especially the big 3) than the US does.
And while we are supposed to have a countermeasure in the Senate, it's toothless.
Because they like medicare and/or the military and don't want to significantly reduce either. Sadly those are the only two areas that would move the needle.
Yeah that's exactly wrong. 2 major things matter for solar; how long each day the sun is directly overhead, and average cloud cover. Deserts on the equator are the best. Deserts farther away from the equator are good. Anything else farther from the equator is bad. Rainy climates are really bad.
They can't make an automated sink that works reliably. I'm not holding my breath on cars. Sure they work with an engineer babysitting them. But how about after 2 years of pizza shop maintenance. Will a single sensor on them still work right? I think not.
If the government doesn't get to decide, then there won't be any reason for UBI recipients to vote for one candidate over another. So government will always keep itself in the decision loop.
If you're a good person you don't steal anything in the first place, unless you're literally starving, which virtually no one in the first world is in any danger of.
Awesome. I like everything I've seen about the Bolt, glad it's working for you. My wife commutes about 80km each way daily, and I think it'd be a great commuter vehicle for her.
Nothing happened to him because he was also spying on everyone in Congress and could have dished the dirt on anyone who advocated doing something to him. Obviously.
$20-30k worth of roof pays for a lot of gas. Spend $5k on better windows and insulation and invest the rest. Especially if you don't have net metering in your jurisdiction.
Wish I had mod points. Every climate-change activist needs to really wrap their heads around this. There is no reversing climate change without massive, immediate investments in nuclear energy along with solar and wind where the environment for them makes sense.
Or, you know, just enjoy the fact that most of our electricity is already from renewable non-carbon-emitting sources. At least in much of Canada. Not so much Ontario or the prairies.
If you actually want to help save the world, you need to do less, of everything. Not buy more shit.
Fewer, or no kids. Much fewer car-miles. Many less vacations. Eat less meat. Buy less crap. Make sure your next car is a pure-electric, after driving your current one until it can't be fixed anymore. Live in a small, well-insulated residence, with a heat pump. Put solar on the roof if it floats your boat.
And no, I don't do many of those things. No kids, though, and I do hope my next car will be an electric. And if/when I need a new roof it will be a Tesla roof.
Also recognize that doing all those things won't actually save the world. As long as we're adding 100 million new bodies a year, this planet is going down.
And some parts have the cheapest. Like Manitoba, Quebec and Newfoundland, with abundant hydro electric power and sane distribution.
Ontario has a lot of people and limited hydro-electric compared to those jurisdictions. And had a succession of bad governments that privatized electrical distribution and overpaid for renewable energy production. It's basically the poster child for how to screw up electricity prices.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ontario_provincial_electoral_districts
Look at those ridings. Which ones have fewer than 100K people? Those would be the rural ridings.
Even in Canada rural ridings have less people than urban, and thus their voters count more heavily. We just have a higher percentage of our population in cities (especially the big 3) than the US does.
And while we are supposed to have a countermeasure in the Senate, it's toothless.
Because they like medicare and/or the military and don't want to significantly reduce either. Sadly those are the only two areas that would move the needle.
Except to do it at any scale it takes all our farmland. So really it's just expensive posturing that solves nothing.
Yeah that's exactly wrong. 2 major things matter for solar; how long each day the sun is directly overhead, and average cloud cover. Deserts on the equator are the best. Deserts farther away from the equator are good. Anything else farther from the equator is bad. Rainy climates are really bad.
They can't make an automated sink that works reliably. I'm not holding my breath on cars. Sure they work with an engineer babysitting them. But how about after 2 years of pizza shop maintenance. Will a single sensor on them still work right? I think not.
Exactly. At one point did we decide our economy exists to serve machines and not us?
It never completely left here. Go visit a corporate farm at harvest time.
I actually like the look. I prefer 5-doors in general as they're much more useful than sedans. And the Bolt looks good.
If the government doesn't get to decide, then there won't be any reason for UBI recipients to vote for one candidate over another. So government will always keep itself in the decision loop.
The party actually paying is the taxpayer, not the government. That party has no say and probably doesn't want artificial work done at their expense.
If you're a good person you don't steal anything in the first place, unless you're literally starving, which virtually no one in the first world is in any danger of.
Awesome. I like everything I've seen about the Bolt, glad it's working for you. My wife commutes about 80km each way daily, and I think it'd be a great commuter vehicle for her.
Naw, that's great. I've zeroed in on the Bolt as my most likely next vehicle, actually, and I'm glad it's working for you.
Everything needs construction. Those 100m wind turbines are a significant bit of manufacturing, too, and then have much higher maintenance than a dam.
I wouldn't characterize it as significant. It's one-time, at least, and then you get clean power for decades.
CO2 from natural gas is about half that from coal. It's not "minimal". Minimal is hydro-electric or nuclear or wind or solar.
What model of electric car do you drive? Can you tell us about your experiences with it?
Pretty sure they're still blaming Bush for Obama's deficits.
How do you not need foreign oil? You're still importing 7-8 million barrels per day.
Nothing happened to him because he was also spying on everyone in Congress and could have dished the dirt on anyone who advocated doing something to him. Obviously.
$20-30k worth of roof pays for a lot of gas. Spend $5k on better windows and insulation and invest the rest. Especially if you don't have net metering in your jurisdiction.
Wish I had mod points. Every climate-change activist needs to really wrap their heads around this. There is no reversing climate change without massive, immediate investments in nuclear energy along with solar and wind where the environment for them makes sense.
Or, you know, just enjoy the fact that most of our electricity is already from renewable non-carbon-emitting sources. At least in much of Canada. Not so much Ontario or the prairies.
If you actually want to help save the world, you need to do less, of everything. Not buy more shit.
Fewer, or no kids. Much fewer car-miles. Many less vacations. Eat less meat. Buy less crap. Make sure your next car is a pure-electric, after driving your current one until it can't be fixed anymore. Live in a small, well-insulated residence, with a heat pump. Put solar on the roof if it floats your boat.
And no, I don't do many of those things. No kids, though, and I do hope my next car will be an electric. And if/when I need a new roof it will be a Tesla roof.
Also recognize that doing all those things won't actually save the world. As long as we're adding 100 million new bodies a year, this planet is going down.
And some parts have the cheapest. Like Manitoba, Quebec and Newfoundland, with abundant hydro electric power and sane distribution.
Ontario has a lot of people and limited hydro-electric compared to those jurisdictions. And had a succession of bad governments that privatized electrical distribution and overpaid for renewable energy production. It's basically the poster child for how to screw up electricity prices.