That's "Banff", (beautiful place BTW).
You're right, though, that Alberta and Texas have a lot in common in addition to O&G. They both have an exaggerated numbers of Evangelical nutbags, crypto-fascists, fake cowboys, and gapping a-holes.
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You're right, though, that Alberta and Texas have a lot in common in addition to O&G. They both have an exaggerated numbers of Evangelical nutbags, crypto-fascists, fake cowboys, and gapping a-holes.
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@Gorgonzola I fixed the spelling error. I hope you are being sarcastic. We do have a lot of crypto mining going on due to cheap electricity, but they are on interruptible service.
@Doodski Banff photographs really well. I would love to go back.
@Doodski Banff photographs really well. I would love to go back.
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It's been about 10 or maybe 12 years since I've been there in the summertime. It was nice to visit with fresh cool mountain air in the evening. Great for hanging out on a pub/restaurant patio and getting juiced. There is a huge amount of temporary residents that visit for the weekend @ their condos and houses and then head back to their home base for work. So it gets significantly busier on the weekends.
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Sounds great. Plenty of animals to harvest and when those are gone the peat bogs can be drained and burnt for fuel. Then again, this article from such practices in Ireland make it sound like a bad thing. Basically turning a carbon sink into a big carbon source.Much of Canada is swap; it's called "muskeg".
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Of course, a really major volcanic eruption (Krakatoa-class) might provide a lot more global cooling than anything we might attempt ourselves. It might clean off some coastlines, too, depending on where it occurred. We are rather behind on big eruptions at present.
And if I’m driving in an ash cloud, I’d rather have an EV (vain attempt to be on topic).
Rick “wondering how much climates of the past depended on major eruptions to reset themselves” Denney
And if I’m driving in an ash cloud, I’d rather have an EV (vain attempt to be on topic).
Rick “wondering how much climates of the past depended on major eruptions to reset themselves” Denney
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Calgary is more of a cowboy hat and boots city with the rough and tumble crowd coming into town for R&R. Edmonton is more laid back and less rowdy. I prefer Edmonton.
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No. I never go there. I rarely go south across the river.
Burning peat for fuel? Uhmm ... just NOSounds great. Plenty of animals to harvest and when those are gone the peat bogs can be drained and burnt for fuel. Then again, this article from such practices in Ireland make it sound like a bad thing. Basically turning a carbon sink into a big carbon source.
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Fortunately, (excepting maybe Ireland), there's no big, politically-connected money, (like Koch brothers), behind it.It takes a long time for nature to create a peat bog -- peat isn't going to "regenerate" anytime soon. Coal is basically peat that's be around a whole lot longer, like a couple of hundred million years.
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I've been to Banff and surrounding area four times over the years; the last time was 2000 unfortunately. I'd like to go again though it's not cheapest place to vacation.Here's a pic of Banff for those that have never heard of it.
Check out this picture I took in 1981 form atop Sulphur Mountain south of the town. The same mountain as in @Doodski's picture, Mount Cascade, dominates but here you get a better relative proportion of mountain relative to the town. The town nestles lower center in the picture -- it has grown quite bit since then, granted. The famous Banff Springs Hotel is visible in the lower right.
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So you can hang out with Evangelical nut bags, crypto fascists, face cowboys and gapping (gaping?) assholes?
No, mostly fellow tourists, not native Albertans. (A great place to visit; wouldn't want to live there.)
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Sounds like you’d be better off visiting BC? They share your opinion of Albertans.
Progress on the sodium-ion battery front. Alas, still an order of magnitude behind lithium-ion batteries in terms cycle count. On the energy-density front, Panasonic says it has a roadmap to increase the energy density of their lithium-ion cells by 20% by 2030.
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My impression is BC is the California of Canada both geographically and politically.
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Not sure how too react to the comparison?
Much prefer BC although enjoyed living in Carmel.
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I wonder whether denial, bickering, and foot-dragging is just an unavoidable part of enacting large-scale change (like de-carbonizing the world), short of draconian measures, which could create an even bigger mess.
ITER fusion reactor, scheduled to go online in 2025. While not designed to generate electricity, it could serve as a prototype for others which will:
https://www.iter.org/news/galleries
It's the subject of a documentary:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13820842/?ref_=ttep_ep3
However: Large, costly, complex. Maybe a solution rather than the solution?
As for cultural shifts away from cars, some folks will never willingly give up the lifestyle, but no one lives forever! No need to pry things from someone's "cold, dead, hands", just gotta wait for the rigor mortis to pass.
Me, I drive so little these days that I doubt that it would matter whether I owned a gas guzzler.
ITER fusion reactor, scheduled to go online in 2025. While not designed to generate electricity, it could serve as a prototype for others which will:
https://www.iter.org/news/galleries
It's the subject of a documentary:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13820842/?ref_=ttep_ep3
However: Large, costly, complex. Maybe a solution rather than the solution?
As for cultural shifts away from cars, some folks will never willingly give up the lifestyle, but no one lives forever! No need to pry things from someone's "cold, dead, hands", just gotta wait for the rigor mortis to pass.
Me, I drive so little these days that I doubt that it would matter whether I owned a gas guzzler.
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