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EV's, Gas/Oil, and The Future- another swerve split from- JT Hints Boosting Canada’s Military Spending

IKnowNothing said:
I decided the extra money was worth it and went with the Crosstrek over the Kona or Seltos- and 95% of the time I have no regrets. Cottage week with two carseats? Boy that's tight, and there was some triage to pare down what went with us.

Pretty much talked myself into upgrading into Ranger or fullsize SUV by next year, then my Dad made me feel silly by pointing out that the cost comparison between a 40k vehicle purchase and a 25% tourist premium on groceries for 1 week of the year isn't particularly close.
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I have a XL Thule box for my Suburban, and I use it a bunch. Now some of it comes from the fact my kit always expands to fill the available space - but with wife, kids, and two 80+ lb labs, space disappears fast.

I’m headed to Ft Campbell in a few weeks, between gear, guns and ammo, there is not a lot of room for others. Plus I need to make room for bringing more ammo home ;)
 
lenaitch said:
True, but the upfront cost for multiple charging stations will not insignificant.
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Wonder, over the lifetime of a distribution hub, how that compares to the nuisance factor and straightforward costs of either maintaining your own tank and pumps or dealing with cardlock arrangements for every vehicle (including drivers' time and so on).
 
Don't forget the cost of the backup generators and their maintenance. When the City of Edmonton built the new north side bus barn to house their fleet of now mostly inoperative electric buses one of first things they installed was 2 massive diesel generators out front. Hard to charge your fleet of electric whatever if there isn't any electricity. Imagine if the power goes out and people don't get their Amazon packages because the fleet of vans can't be charged. That would be a disaster.
 
KevinB said:
I have a XL Thule box for my Suburban, and I use it a bunch. Now some of it comes from the fact my kit always expands to fill the available space - but with wife, kids, and two 80+ lb labs, space disappears fast.

I’m headed to Ft Campbell in a few weeks, between gear, guns and ammo, there is not a lot of room for others. Plus I need to make room for bringing more ammo home ;)
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Trailer works well for ammo.
I use to have a picture of a Iltis trailer we had laden full of small arms ammo we drove up the Malahat oVancouver r Island To the range in Nanaimo. The boys did not like that drive. Lol
 
Colin Parkinson said:
More problems

www.theenergymix.com

Hydrogen Projects Delayed, Cancelled as ‘Hype’ Meets Reality

Hydrogen “hype” is coming down to earth, with a major export deal stalling out in Atlantic Canada while a highly-touted investment goes on hold in the West.
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Interesting that the main focus of delay is primarily on cost and policy issues. No surprise about cost - business isn’t going to go into something without either a clear independent business case, or without heavy subsidies (such as the 10s of billions of dollars federal and provincial governments are providing battery producers at the moment 😉). It interesting that the Unavoidable-Uncompetitive spectrum has H2FC vehicles are very low on the list of feasible uses, when that will be most likely a huge use, particularly to replace the toxic production nature of the green movement’s current Li-Ion battery baby.
 
I see hydrogen being more useful for static power generation to replace diesel. Except moving large quantities of hydrogen has it's own challenges.

I seem to recall a decade ago a lot of buzz about Iceland going into hydrogen in a big way as their abundant geo-thermal made it far cheaper to produce? Where is that at?
 
Shell is getting out of hydrogen in a big way. I don't blame them, the stuff sucks when you have to work with it. Our H2 piping at work is all welded construction because the H2 will inevitably find its way out of gasketed flanges. Packing leaks on valve stems are normal no matter what you do. Most of our Hydrogen system PSVs have Nitrogen piped to their outlet to prevent an instant fireball if the PSV lifts. In short it is a PIA. I can't imagine large scale usage for auto fuel or anything else. The explosion of a H2 compressor at Nexen's upgrader near Ft Mac is a good reminder of what happens when something goes wrong.

Shell Shuts Down Its US Hydrogen Filling Stations - CleanTechnica

Shell has decided to close all its hydrogen refueling stations for light duty vehicles in California, a blow to fuel cell car drivers.
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Shell and Equinor Drop Out of Norway's Blue Hydrogen Pipeline Plan

Equinor and Shell have dropped out of a key decarbonization project that would have supplied blue hydrogen to the German power generation market. Thei...
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SeaKingTacco said:
The internet also seems to suggest using low carbon steel with at least 10% nickel or introducing Titanium alloy.

I just went down a very deep, chemical bond rabbit hole….
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We can rely upon car manufacturers, shops and users to maintain their vehicles as per the required standards can't we........?
 
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the cost of green power, which is obviously the way you start with green hydrogen, has to be in the US$30 range [per megawatt-hour] to make projects viable.”
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Baseline requirement - power at 30 USD per MWH, call it 40 CAD / MWH

40 CAD / MWH = 11 CAD / GJ

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Currently electricity in Alberta, with all our windfarms and solar panels, is knocking on 25 cents per kWH or
250 CAD / MWH = 69 CAD / GJ.

In 2020 it cost about 6 cents per kWH or 25% of the current price
62 CAD / MWH = 17 CAD / GJ

Meanwhile Natural Gas which used to cost 1.80 CAD / GJ in 2020 now costs
0.53 CAD / GJ.

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For reference sake gasoline that used to cost 0.80 CAD / l in 2020 or 23 CAD / GJ now costs
42 CAD /GJ

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Cheapest way to make H2 is come to Alberta and feed you plant with Natural Gas.

And if you want to turn on the taps of the national economy again - start piping Natural Gas to factories, homes and ports.


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Alberta natural gas reference price

The reference price is a representative market price for natural gas bought and sold within the province.
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