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01-13-2024, 08:41 PM
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Apparently all of the city of Calgary busses and electric trains were shut down on Friday (frozen up) I wonder if they ran today or tonight? We got the alert around 7:15pm welcome to the world of Nutley and her merry band of useful idiots.... Hopefully they will not make the same mistake twice. Clown world rules.
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01-13-2024, 08:53 PM
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Saskatchewan is sending electricity to make up the shortfall and Scott Moe is basically telling Trudeau to F himself
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01-13-2024, 08:56 PM
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Still homes and businesses with their Christmas lights on , go figure
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01-13-2024, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by PaintearthCounty
Still homes and businesses with their Christmas lights on , go figure
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So? Lol
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01-13-2024, 09:31 PM
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So much granola not being made this eve!
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01-13-2024, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Albertajeff
I just went out and plugged in two more pickups and the tractor 220v circulating heater…
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I turned the dryer on. I thought it would be good to run an empty cycle.
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Funny as this all is, I just drug the generator from the storage shed to the insulated shop so it might start if I need it tonight.
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It has been scientifically proven that a 308 round will not leave your property -- they essentially fall dead at the fence line. But a 38 round, when fired from a handgun, will of its own accord leave your property and destroy any small schools nearby.
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01-13-2024, 09:40 PM
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Still homes and businesses with their Christmas lights on , go figure
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City of Red Deer and Innisfail are still lit up with their Christmas lights in the parks and green spaces.
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01-13-2024, 09:42 PM
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Yeah, lets load up the grid so we can all have a blackout at -40. that will sure teach Ottawa a lesson
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01-13-2024, 09:52 PM
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I really want to see who they cut power to first.
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01-13-2024, 09:54 PM
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Saskatchewan is sending electricity to make up the shortfall and Scott Moe is basically telling Trudeau to F himself
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Moe to the rescue, again… and with RELIABLE sources of power generation! Should be a nice warm sleep for folks tonight. Hopefully this serves as a wake up call for some that we’re being sold a bag of green “renewable” lies.
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01-13-2024, 09:58 PM
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I really want to see who they cut power to first.
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It probably won't specifically be all the empty parking lots that are lit up with all the street lights
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01-13-2024, 10:11 PM
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So over a quarter of Alberta’s maximum generating capacity is wind and solar, am I reading this correctly?
http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market...DReportServlet
Either way it isn’t doing any good. Glad Alberta put a pause on wind and solar.
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01-13-2024, 10:26 PM
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I don’t normally respond to these type of posts but I am genuinely surprised that we are only producing 2.9% of the capacity on wind. I wasn’t expecting a lot but less that than 3% I was thinking it would produce in the 10-15% range. I knew solar was less than useless but now I know wind is truly useless….
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There are windmill all around me and building more and not a single one is turning today.
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01-13-2024, 10:29 PM
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I don’t normally respond to these type of posts but I am genuinely surprised that we are only producing 2.9% of the capacity on wind. I wasn’t expecting a lot but less that than 3% I was thinking it would produce in the 10-15% range. I knew solar was less than useless but now I know wind is truly useless….
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Batteries, lots of batteries.
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01-13-2024, 10:32 PM
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I agree…..
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Start the rolling blackouts in the ndp ridings.
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Except. I did not vote for those idiots. Just because my neighbors are all dumb and did should not screw me over.
I emailed the idiot Loyola. See if he is dumb enough to respond.
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01-13-2024, 10:49 PM
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When homes and businesses are at risk of freezing, politics should be put aside
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01-13-2024, 11:00 PM
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When homes and businesses are at risk of freezing, politics should be put aside
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Politics are the reason for the issue. But yes if someone is in need hopefully help is close. Like what Saskatchewan did by reallocating power to alberta
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01-13-2024, 11:49 PM
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Saved by Saskatchewan’s coal fired (in part) power!
Thanks Moe!
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01-14-2024, 01:59 AM
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When homes and businesses are at risk of freezing, politics should be put aside
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I disagree. Freezing, starvation or other near-death experiences are the only lessons that will allow many ideologues to look past their indoctrinated ideals.
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01-14-2024, 05:08 AM
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Every morning when I get up for work at 4:30 am I flip open the laptop and check the news headlines, anxiously awaiting one in particular. When it finally happens I won't make it in to work that day, or most likely the day after. Cupboard is well stocked with Pendleton for that special occasion
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Damn. Maybe tomorrow
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01-14-2024, 06:13 AM
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So thanks to Notley shutting down coal plants, what do we do to increase our generation to the levels that we require? The woke/green fanatics don't want coal or gas generation, they will also resist nuclear, and wind solar aren't practical during our -40 winter days? That doesn't leave us many options, with the woke/green fanatics blocking every practical option. Perhaps the real problem is the woke/green fanatics?
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01-14-2024, 06:25 AM
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I think they need to keep a couple of those coal fired state of the art power plants on standby for times like this. Or did the NDP tear them all down when they closed them
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Most of them were switched to natural gas. One coal plant left.
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01-14-2024, 06:29 AM
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I think the first thing they should do is turn off all the street lights throughout the ;province
Last night I was sitting with one small LED light going looking out the window at all the street lights blazing away
I have complained about this before when we were short of power and was told it was a safety issue.
Last year the street light in our col de sac only worked for 2 months out of 12
cannot be much of a safety issue
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01-14-2024, 06:44 AM
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If rotating outages do become necessary, start with Notley's riding, her former ministers ridings, and the two federal ridings that elected liberals, as they are the ones that want to shut down our reliable sources of electricity. Let them lead by example.
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01-14-2024, 06:47 AM
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Well my conclusion on this whole mess after hours of reading about it is that this is about more than Notley. That needs to be addressed, there’s more than one piece to this puzzle.
Before I get attacked , I’m not saying she should have phased out coal so soon and transitioned those plants to gas instead because that was clearly hasty. But if you’re seeing that as the entire problem you’re viewing things in a lens too narrow.
Hope everyone comes out of things safely.
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If rotating outages do become necessary, start with Notley's riding, her former ministers ridings, and the two federal ridings that elected liberals, as they are the ones that want to shut down our reliable sources of electricity. Let them lead by example.
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Elk you really need to temper your political ideology with a measure of logic.
The electrical grid doesn’t align with the ridings map.
As much as it would be a heart warming situation to see, it is pure fantasy, and frankly such statements only bolster the eco idjits position, and make you look just as un hinged as them.
Dial it back my friend.
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Well my conclusion on this whole mess after hours of reading about it is that this is about more than Notley. That needs to be addressed, there’s more than one piece to this puzzle.
Before I get attacked , I’m not saying she should have phased out coal so soon and transitioned those plants to gas instead because that was clearly hasty. But if you’re seeing that as the entire problem you’re viewing things in a lens too narrow.
Hope everyone comes out of things safely.
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Shutting down generation was definitely a huge factor in Alberta being in this situation, but you are correct, with the woke/green fanatics opposing coal/gas and nuclear generation, we have no reliable alternatives in Alberta, so what do we do in the future?
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Elk you really need to temper your political ideology with a measure of logic.
The electrical grid doesn’t align with the ridings map.
As much as it would be a heart warming situation to see, it is pure fantasy, and frankly such statements only bolster the eco idjits position, and make you look just as un hinged as them.
Dial it back my friend.
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It is unfortunate, but yes, the grid design won't allow the people causing this situation to feel the effects of their actions. And that is too bad, because that is usually what needs to happen, for some people to learn from their mistakes.
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It is unfortunate, but yes, the grid design won't allow the people causing this situation to feel the effects of their actions. And that is too bad, because that is usually what needs to happen, for some people to learn from their mistakes.
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Keep it classy and fact filled.
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01-14-2024, 07:03 AM
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Keep it classy and fact filled.
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Fact is that the anti coal/gas/oil agenda has put us in this situation, and fact, is that the same agenda will be our largest hurdle in finding a solution to get out of this situation. Fact is that solar/wind generation aren't working in this situation. Fact, is that it is going to take a serious situation to get the anti oil/gas/coal agenda promoters to even admit that their agenda is causing this situation, and fact is that it will take serious consequences to get them to relent enough to resolve this situation.
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