Carbon Tax Rebate

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Yes very true and batteries need to be replaced.

But ICE cars also need to be replaced and the maintenance costs adds up over time.

Battery technology will evolve and hopefully get a lot better, cleaner and cheaper as time goes on.

In the transition phase of every new technology costs are usually higher and not as good tech as later versions.

Remember what the first large cell phones cost and what their features were? Not very impressive compared to the ones we have now.

So you are still living in the future for your EV and Renewable energy fiasco, and still living in the past when it comes to your blind support of vaccines.

Which raises a question, do you ever exist in the here and now?

[chuckChuck]

So A5 you are an antivaxer? And you don't think vaccines are good and safe healthcare?

But you can't produce any evidence to back up your claims that the covid vaccines in Alberta don't reduce deaths and hospitalizations? LOL

Why not ask GM about the future of EVs? At a $35 billion dollar investment are they wrong? Or would you rather invest $35 billion in crypto currencies like Polarizing Polly?

Chevrolet unveils all-electric Blazer with more than 500 kilometres of range
Petrina Gentile
Los angeles
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published Yesterday

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/article-chevrolet-unveils-all-electric-blazer-with-more-than-500-kilometres-of/

Chevrolet is expanding its electric vehicle lineup, adding the 2024 Blazer mid-size SUV, which will start in the mid-$50,000 range when it arrives next summer and travel more than 500 kilometres on a full charge. Chevy has already announced that electric versions of the Silverado pickup truck and Equinox SUV are coming next year. It’s all part of GM’s plan to inject $35-billion into EV and autonomous vehicle product development globally and introduce 30 new EVs by 2025.

[blackpowder]

Yes very true and batteries need to be replaced.

But ICE cars also need to be replaced and the maintenance costs adds up over time.

Battery technology will evolve and hopefully get a lot better, cleaner and cheaper as time goes on.

In the transition phase of every new technology costs are usually higher and not as good tech as later versions.

Remember what the first large cell phones cost and what their features were? Not very impressive compared to the ones we have now.

We didn't throw away the landline before cells worked. Cellular was consumer driven innovation.
I get your analogy but half wrong.

[binthere]

Cmon man chuck said hopefully.just like any good person with buisness sense.

[Sheepwheat]

I’ve been trying to formulate a comment, but I am stuck at the fact that there are people who actually would willingly invite him into their home. Who would actually have the smarmy, gross, criminal in their home? Sick.

[fjlip]

I’ve been trying to formulate a comment, but I am stuck at the fact that there are people who actually would willingly invite him into their home. Who would actually have the smarmy, gross, criminal in their home? Sick.

Deaf illiterate blind to all his CRIMES...i guess. Those that believe in NOTHING need him to SAVE them, the country, planet.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Cmon man chuck said hopefully.just like any good person with buisness sense.

Hope is always a good strategy. Especially in the middle of a "climate emergency", and with countless hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on renewable energies and battery powered cars, at the expense of any other viable options.

And I see he is still harping about batteries getting cheaper. I've already presented the information indicating that the exact opposite is occuring, and quite drastically too. But he is still waiting, and "hoping" for the price to come down so he can buy an imaginary electric car, to charge with his imaginary solar panels, on his imaginary farm.

[blackpowder]

I'm still laughing at powering your home from your car.
In the time it took for him to cut and paste that very short term solution, I can refuel the gen for another day with liquid solar energy from bulk tank or jerry can. What a maroon.

[blackpowder]

https://fb.watch/eo-e2sPFDN/

[chuckChuck]

I guess GM is investing an imaginary $35 billion dollars in imaginary EVs? LOL

And nobody is using EV batteries to provide backup to power homes? And the Tesla that A4 drives doesn't really exist?

And in Alberta those are imaginary solar panels and windmills they are putting up while switching imaginary coal plants to natural gas, don't exist?

Renewables aren't going to replace all carbon based fosssil fuels anytime soon, but to claim that all the EVs and renewable investments are imaginary is quite the stretch of imagination.

There must be a lot of imaginary farms producing imaginary renewable energy because the 2021 Census showed over 22,000 farms across Canada producing renewable energy.

Farmers are transitioning towards renewable energy production


In 2021, there were more than twice as many farms reporting renewable energy production than in the previous census. The number of farms reporting renewable energy production increased from 10,185 in the previous census to 22,576 in 2021.

Expressed as a proportion of total farms, close to 1 in 8 farms in Canada (11.9%) reported some form of renewable energy production in 2021, more than double the rate (5.3%) in the previous census. Solar energy production remained the most common form of renewable energy production on Canadian farms, as the number of farms that reported producing this form of energy increased by 66.5% from the previous census to 2021.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220511/dq220511a-eng.htm

[chuckChuck]

From Bloomberg

How Ford’s Electric Pickup Can Power Your House for 10 Days

Transforming an F-150 Lightning into a backup generator means you can keep the lights on during blackouts. Here’s the extra equipment you’ll need to use the EV battery to power a home.

"The extended-range Lightning’s 131 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion pack boasts almost 10 times the capacity of a Tesla Powerwall, an $11,000 home backup battery that can’t be driven to the supermarket. The Lightning is “a mini powerplant for your home,” says Jason Glickman, executive vice president for engineering, planning and strategy at California utility PG&E Corp. “It can support the grid on a hot summer day, when we have demand spiking.”

“At scale, when these vehicles are enabled to send energy back to the grid, flex alerts and notices of grid emergencies will be a thing completely of the past,” adds Glickman, whose utility is testing how to integrate the truck into its management of the grid."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-31/how-the-ford-f-150-can-be-a-backup-home-generator

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So according to Chuck's article, only 11.9% of Canadian Farms are using some form of renewable energy.
Does this mean that photosynthesis has now been canceled along with all the other inconvenient laws of nature and physics?
Every farm I know of is relying on photosynthesis as their primary source of energy. And it is the ultimate renewable energy source.
Even intensive livestock is still using photosynthesis as their energy source, just one step removed. About the only exceptions would be hydroponics or enclosed greenhouses, or carpet farmers stuck in the basement with no windows.