Recent content by GreyGhost

Your blind fanaticism is impairing your reading comprehension. You were talking about 1.5km setbacks being enough. Ontario didn't use 1500m setbacks for wind, they used 550m for most turbines. That allows a ton of turbines in southern Ontario (and a lot of ****** off people 551m from turbines).

I am guessing gophers are at zero.

You missed cleaning up birds after oil spills

If he's feeling awesome with a die grinder or has access to a mill, he could also cut in two pockets and put a nut and bolt across the crack so the steel bolt takes the load and the aluminum is mostly to keep the oil in.

Try being inside a house at 3am (especially with a temperature inversion). Completely different experience than standing beside your car. Try drawing 1.5km setback circles in Ontario. You'll be well north of north bay before you place a single turbine. A lot of ontario turbines were placed at...

Round two passed. Needed to deal with trees in the lake. Much nicer to use the small saw in the water up to my neck. Fuel tank is pretty small. After a couple tanks, it wanted throttle to start but would work fine once started. I havent checked once it cooled down to see if that was heat related...

Battery cycling costs ~$0.15/kwh if you hope to pay off the battery before it is garbage. It works technically but financially, it's a rough go. I was running the numbers to see if ULO electricity plan plus a battery to supply power during on-peak periods but it was no Bueno. If I could build...

Nuclear and hydro are good for base load and terrible for load tracking. Thermal is the nest we have for load tracking. Batteries may get there but equivalent capacity is still cost-prohibitive. The best part about solar is it is the easiest to provide distributed power. Lessens demand on...

A Toronto lifeguard was patrolling a swim zone on some type of floating vessel and was crashed into by someone on a jetski who just continued on with their day. Guess where the driver was from...

Structuring gets you in just as much trouble. Those that are smart with cash transactions use the cash on vacation (with minimal pictures) or to pay other trades. Those won't show up in a net worth audit. You don't want to hand someone a pile of cash and they deposit it. That makes you part of...

That will be changed soon enough. Coming soon to a country near you, paying over 10K in cash will be actually illegal.

I am disappointed that Quik-E-Mart is not the dominant chain of convenience stores in Brampton.

For most of the current wind, we pay a disgusting rate for the power they make. We don't pay when they don't make power. On the flipside, as the power is not reliable, we pay a standby rate and a disgusting rate for power from NG powered small generating stations that can jump on when required...

That's not compliant with the diagram he posted from municipality.

Minimum 37" deep, max 47". That's a pain in the ass with hand tools.