BeaverFever

Nobody is saying that, dumbass. Lots of things are combustible, including your precious fossil fuels whose primary purpose is combustion. Lithium Ion batteries are everywhere in everything from cars to power tools to submarines and more . Your argument that it is a non-viable technology when it is already clearly widely established because it can catch fire is ridiculous and dumb.

Im talking about the grid scale battery storage that’s being discussed in this conversation, stupid. Stop being a trolling little twat What lies?

What were the most egregious lies about Obamacare compared to the lies Republicans told about Obamacare? There were some ambitious promises initially that they weren’t able to keep thanks to Republicans and lobbyists but nothing that reaches the outrageous level of opposite-of-reality lies Republicans and Trump manufacture almost daily. Obamacare allowed tens of millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans to obtain affordable, comprehensive coverage, and still to this day 15 years later Republicans haven’t been able to articulate a single alternative idea or rough concept of their own on how they would address the American unaffordable healthcare coverage problem.

I don’t think the intent of the Supplementary Reserve, which has been around for a long time, has ever been to produce mission-ready personnel, heck the Primary Reserve can’t really do that for the vast majority who are Class A. I think of Supplementary as a step below Class A in terms of readiness. It’s basically an engagement tool, a pool of people for the CAF to “keep warm”, some of whom will be keen enough to volunteer for more than the bare minimum and put their hand up for more opportunities to serve and to train And the absolute worst case of fantasy scenario where a full mobilization “total defence” situation occurs and the entire civilian population needs to be conscripted and trained, at least they are no starting completely from scratch trying to find people.

Well I don’t see how we get there from here in terms of the sheer scale, when we can’t even fill the empty positions we have. But in terms of everyone freaking out about recruiting from public service ranks, they’re a broad cross-section of society just like any other group, they’re not inherently less qualified or capable of being trained than any other civilians out there. IMO the conservative freak-out over this has more to do with the fact that they have been conditioned to despise public servants as human beings.

I don’t see how this is any different from when any new recruits receive training. So to recap: civilian off the street with no experience wants to join the reserves = no problem. But if their civilian job happens to be in the public service somehow it’s a disaster waiting to happen?

That’s an oversimplification if not outright false. A lot of factors contributed to Americas problem with “ghettos” such as White Flight and unofficial segregation practices in newly built suburbs, but I will point out that only the US has a ghetto problem despite all the other western countries being far more left wing than USA. In some states Democrats have attempted to implement de-politicized redistricting as we have in Canada and most other civilized democracies and put an end to gerrymandering but Republicans have challenged or undone those reforms sometimes successfully in court arguing that political gerrymandering is a privilege and prerogative of the elected government. Funny you don’t have a problem with Republican gerrymandering, especially since Texas and other red states are gerrymandering 5 years early completely off-cycle just because their cult leader Trump told them to in order to rig the midterm elections. You’re only upset that California said they will follow suit IN RESPONSE. Also it is mostly red states who are dependent on federal funds. Most Blue states including California are net contributors of federal funds, meaning the Californians contribute more federal tax dollars than the state receives.

LMAO I understand how batteries work and clearly I am right because the battery projects are cropping up everywhere around the world and what Elon is making hi trillion dollar compensation from. You think you have some secret knowledge from the internet that government and private industry experts involved in these projects don’t which is why you MAGA clowns are such a joke. On the topic at hand, Republicans have been publicly criticized for racist gerrymandering for DECADES Ever heard or Project Redmap? I think you know this to be true which is why your response to my post has nothing to do with this topic.

So when Republicans said Obamacare would force Americans to go before “death panels” who would decide whether they were worthy of receiving life-saving treatment that was the truth? Remember the Republican claims of death panels? Obamacare might not have been able to achieve all of its initial promises thanks to resistance from Republicans and industry but it wasn’t the absurd lying we see from republicans. Tellingly it’s actually Republicans who want “death panels” for women in need of lifesaving abortions, but I digress….

Republicans have been conducting well/documented racist gerrymandering for decades. Another politically motivated abuse of prosecution power, just as they promised they would.

YOU weren’t one of them. Stop trying to bathe in their reflected glory to compensate for your own underachievement. There are plenty of non-whites who have contributed far more to your country than bottom-of-the-barrel white trailer trash like you ever have or ever will. You aren’t the descendant of George Washington, you’re the descendant of some random inconsequential person whose only commonality with the people who built your country is a similar skin tone and a vaguely similar culture and if you’re their final product then they’re part of the people destroying the country not building it.

I’d be genetically superior to a bottom feeding white trash POS like you.

So at least you admit that Blacks and Hispanics are a founding component of the mythical “optimal population”. The US has literally always had parts that look like the third world. There’s never been a time when that wasn’t the case.

Nobody is saying these civil servants will be given guns and unleashed on the public or the enemy.

No, your logic is incorrect as usual. There’s a reason police and military firearms have continuously evolved to carry more ammunition and why magazine fed pistols replaced revolvers. Greater magazine capacity increases firepower and significantly contributes to winning the firefight

These people will still be sworn into the military not just civilian servants issued guns. We already have a Supplementary Reserve of low readiness personnel, mostly older veterans. They’re not meant to be a combat forc, I believe those who are still fit for full duties can theoretically individually transfer to the Primary Reserve or Reg force unit for duty FYI The Primary Reserve only receives 2 weeks per year of “intense military training” and then the rest of the year it’s generally 1 weekend per month and 1 evening per week, a lot which is indoors. I am still struggling to see what all the outrage is about, if interested civil servants get 1 week of military training per year so what? It’s just a talent pipeline for the Primary Reserve and reg force, they’re not sending bureaucrats into combat with only a week of training.

Your logic seems to be if we’re willing to allow them even one bullet that could kill one person then we should allow unlimited bullets otherwise we’re being unreasonable and drawing unreasonable limits.

I wouldn’t call Esprit De Corps left and considering that Trump’s extra-judicial killings are clearly illegal we do need to ensure we’re not indirectly involved. Trump is already fishing around for his “gulf of Tonkin” moment, massing forces off the Venezuelan coast and conducting black ops throughout that country, he’s looking for a pretext to for invasion and regime change and he will find one or fabricate one soon. My bet is USA is prepping dissidents to stage a coup and then USA will use that as an excuse to invade to “bring stability”.

They’re not talking about “training civil servants to use guns” they’re talking about civil servants being encouraged to voluntarily join the military. People who support gun control mostly don’t have a problem with firearms in the hands of trained military and law enforcement, there’s nothing hypocritical about that.

Well is there any military person you would trust back when they were still an untrained civilian with no military experience? The CDS has clarified that they aren’t proposing a policy of sending untrained civilian bureaucrats into war zones, or drafting public servants, they’re only suggesting that the government could theoretically consider encouraging or incentivizing public sector employees to join the reserves alongside their fellow Canadians.. I think the right wing media is so triggered by this and overreacting is due to their general contempt for public sector employees (other than cops and firefighters etc), whom they love to constantly demonize but if you think about it a lot of reservists already are public sector workers.

No but you are. Storing barrels of “gasoline” (fyi - power plants don’t burn gasoline, they burn NG) isn’t the same as storing electricity. You can’t convert gas into electricity without a gas fired power plant. How do you not understand? Batteries don’t create electricity, they just store electricity that’s been generated elsewhere. How do you not understand the difference between storing electricity and storing something that is not electricity and can’t be made from electricity? The problem isn’t that gas fired plants don’t have enough gas to burn during peak times. How do you not understand? This isn’t that complicated. The storage is not “hundreds of times more expensive” than the alternative. The alternative to grid scale batteries is building more gas fired plants to run during peak times, not storing more barrels of gas for the plants that already run during peak time.

😂😂😂 Meltdown! MAGA Meltdown in aisle 7! * sigh *. Look you still don’t know wrf you’re taking about. When you dropped out of high school you chose to be stupider than others. Stupidity compounds over the years and now I have the shitty job of trying to undo decades of ignorance and brainwashing to explain basic facts. Basically you sent me a link to a story about car crash in a sensational pop culture infotainment site to prove that all cars around the world are a failure and then when I click the link it’s actually an experimental go-kart and it never crashed, just being decommissioned after more than a decade. Ivanpah is not a conventional PV solar panel site it is a technology demonstrator that that went online in 2014 and uses mirrors to heat water that drives a steam turbine. It’s basically a steam-driven power plant, totally different tech. PV solar is highly successful all over the world. Ivanpah has operated for over a decade and delivered many GW of power, just never as much as hoped and at higher cost than hoped so it’s being decommissioned next year. It did kill a lot birds though, the mirrors were so powerful birds could catch fire just by flying over them. But that’s nothing to do with actual PV solar which is what almost all solar is. Another “F” report card for your collection, dumbass. No. You’re saying gas is non-combustible?

What you misunderstand is that battery storage isn’t new power generation, it uses existing power generation by storing energy when it’s cheap to generate and discharging it when it’s expensive. So you’re not really comparing apples to apples. That said a gas peaker plant of comparable capacity is $300 Million per Chat GPT but I note that there is currently a gas peaker proposal in the Ottawa area for $2.2 Billion which is nearly 4x the cost per MW compared to the battery site. In addition gas plants need to he constantly fed fuel and require more workers. Why would it burn to the ground? Right wing nutjob sabotage attack?

LOL once again YOU are the one who is out of your depth. It doesn’t say the facility is meant to power homes “for a year”. The purpose of grid scale batteries is to balance the grid and store energy during surplus/low demand and feed it back to the grid during high demand. So let me explain to you what you don’t understand:: 1) The industry has a standard rating for grid scale batteries in 4h cycles, meaning the battery could be fully charged or discharged in 4 hours, which is the typical peak demand window. 2) So they’re actually saying simply as point of reference that the scale of this one site is such that it could fully power 400,000 homes during peak times each day. That’s roughly equivalent to a city of about 1 million people, for example the city of Ottawa which is just up the road from this site. Get it?

Ontario Breaks Ground on Canada’s Largest Battery Storage Project Skyview 2 storage facility will have enough capacity to power nearly 400,000 homes EDWARDSBURGH CARDINAL — Construction is now underway on the single largest battery storage facility ever procured in Canadian history, supporting the Ontario government’s plan to deliver reliable, affordable and clean energy to power the province’s growing economy and communities. Once complete, the new Skyview 2 Battery Energy Storage System will provide enough capacity to power nearly 400,000 homes, strengthening the province’s electricity grid and protecting Ontario workers and jobs by supporting a more competitive, resilient and self-reliant provincial economy. …With electricity demand in Ontario forecasted to increase significantly by 2050, Skyview 2 marks an important milestone in Ontario’s clean energy transition and will play a vital role in supporting the province’s clean electricity grid. Once operational in 2027, the facility will store electricity from Ontario’s clean electricity grid during periods of low demand and return that stored power to the system when demand is higher, while creating up to 300 jobs during construction and additional operational positions following completion. …The Skyview 2 project is a lithium-ion battery energy storage facility procured through the Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) Long-Term 1 Request for Proposals(LT1 RFP). Developed in partnership between Potentia Renewables Inc. and the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, the facility builds on other projects such as the Oneida Energy Storage facility, to bring Ontario’s total energy storage capacity to nearly 3,000 megawatts (MW) and collectively create up to 3,000 jobs across the province. … https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006716/ontario-breaks-ground-on-canadas-largest-battery-storage-project And this isn't even the first its just the biggest