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This is the risk the USA runs by NOT embracing the clean-energy revolution. Finding excuses for not doing it needs to get replaced with asking how we can do it.

Kinda. The rate of expansion of China's electrical consumption has still led to some new coal-fired plants, but that isn't the long term goal. China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years

Random thing 2: Renewable energy supplies 91% of electricity in Portugal

Random thing 1: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/renewables-produce-almost-60-spains-electricity-2024-07-02/

EU has carbon pricing, too. The UK just shut down their last coal-fired generating station (ahead of schedule). China has been installing lots of solar and wind, and I believe their EV market share just exceeded 50%. Australia has lots of solar generation in place and is building more.

1.4 metres of snow in some places. Not going anywhere in that!

Reminder, Conservatives in charge in Ontario ($250 cheques), Liberals kinda-in-charge-with-a-minority federally (GST holiday). Don't put the blame on any one party ... and the solution isn't with any one party, either. They're all overflowing full of dung.

Mr Axe the Tax voting against (temporarily) axing a (different) tax? I know it's an attempt to buy votes. I know it's an attempt to put the opposition parties in awkward positions. It's apparently a horrible mess for retailers due to GST/HST remaining applicable for some things and not for...

Aens (a few posts up) has a 790 and is a high-mileage rider. No camshaft issues yet. He had a running-hot issue this past summer, which IIRC turned out to be a bad thermostat (or radiator cap? don't remember - both things were under discussion), and that was a cheap fix and could happen to...

Oh, I know, that's why it's only a piece of the puzzle. What amounts to a partial conversion of capital (think: capital loss offsetting gains elsewhere) into dividends (think: dividend tax credit) is kinda useful at the moment.

Professionally managed RRSP which hasn't done much, I don't touch it. Self-managed TFSA which I leave alone except for yearly contributions. Account outside RRSP and TFSA is self-managed and that's the one that is funding my early retirement so it's all dividend-payers. Highly speculative stuff...

3 billion euro is like 8000 euro for every bike they built last year. Obviously this would have been accumulated over the past few years but it's still a few thousand euro per unit. Ouch.

Outsider looking in but I can't even tell the difference between a lot of these models. They need a small-medium-big of each style that they choose to make. That's it. The displacement variations that they sell in order to address licensing restrictions in specific markets (e.g. the 125 and 200...

Bolt gen 1 brake lights activated with the regen-brake tab on the steering wheel (great feature, by the way) and with one-pedal driving above a certain deceleration threshold, but they didn't stay when the car was stopped unless your foot was on the brake pedal (e.g. didn't stay on in a...

This can be connected to growing too quickly: Not enough time spent refining designs before they go into production. There's more than one video online that shows the lengthy, torturous path of oil through the cylinder head of a KTM 790/890 before it eventually, hopefully, reaches a set of...

Ducati's production volume is +/- 60 000 per year - which I consider remarkably low for how much brand recognition they have. BMW apparently sells approx 210 000 per year. Triumph around 100 000 per year. Pierer Mobility Group (including all brands) is around 380 000 per year. (Honda builds +/-...

The bike-related things-to-do list is now 0. The last task was investigating why one particular LED bulb was only lighting up half of itself, but swapping it with the identical bulb on the other side seems to have fixed it. Maybe the connector just needed to be unplugged and plugged back in...

A Cummins ISX15 engine, available in Class 8 trucks (tractor-trailer tractors), has between 400 and 605 horsepower depending on application. Does a pickup truck really need that much to tow the puny-by-comparison trailers that a Class G license-holder is legally allowed to tow?a Back to EVs. I...

Maybe light(?)-duty trucks shouldn't have 15,000 pounds of towing capacity (that can't be used legally on a standard driving license if it were not for that stupid RV exception). Maybe trucks shouldn't have 700 horsepower. Radiator design needs a re-think. It wasn't all that long ago that...

The USA (and by extension, Canada) doesn't have pedestrian-impact collision standards. Europe does, and there has been recent talk of implementing those standards here (and for heavier vehicles than Europe requires them for). Whether that actually happens, is up in the air. I'm all for it. It...