Unprecedented? It’s going to be the lowest figure for the next 50 years unless France gets serious about air conditioning and climate change.

There is plenty of coal all over the the US. There isn’t demand for it as its power is too expensive.

Per the latest Lazard LCOE, solar + storage, wind (onshore) + storage, and gas combined cycle are all cheaper than coal.

The exact figures:

735.5 MW AC 2,942 MWh

Verified from Minnesota PUC and EQB.

The highest solar irradiance per square meter is not Wndsor, but Lethbridge, and it won’t work there either so I can indeed exclude the rest of the country.

The Gosun is 10.9 sqm unfolded, portable so less efficient, will be subject to poor angles due to parking lot configurations and how it drapes across a car, driven some of the sunlight hours so only have 1.5 sqm on the roof, and needs to work in low irradiance winters when batteries will use more kwh/km. It will barely work year round in Las Vegas or Phoenix below average driving patterns.

I drive an electric car and lease 11 KW of a solar farm. I am a former solar professional. I am trying my best to save someone money and their job. Unless you come from a more qualified position or can back up what you are writing with sources, please heed the wisdom of myself and others here. I have no incentive to lie.

As a born and raised Canadian who worked on solar + storage solutions under Ontario’s IESO LT1, can you elaborate on what I don’t know?

I would assume they have to go to work in winter as well.

You are correct. I relied on my professional credentials, back of the envelope math, and logic.

Assuming you aren’t shilling, one of these was true:

1. This product can charge your car sufficiently for your commute in the depths of an overcast or snowy Canadian winter. This means your drive is quick and therefore an e-bike is a solution. You seem insulted by this possibility, but frankly it gave you the most credit.

2. This product cannot and you instead relied on the claims of a video selling something. Since this response is still predicated on those apparent claims and a reading comprehension gap, I will wish you good luck with your decision.

This is not a viable solution for Canada. It can’t provide enough power, is cost prohibitive, and prone to theft/vandalism

If you live in a major Canadian city in an apartment not too far from work, follow the lead of Fantuan delivery drivers and consider an e-bike with those hand warmers things and proper head protection. You can charge it in your apartment and no insurance.

Almost all heat pumps also use fans. It’s simply more efficient.

The difference in your diagrams is not related to heat pump/AC, but forced air v. water.

I hesitate to contradict you but they really are. Many use more efficient parts, but the mechanism is the same.

There is no alternative in hot, humid regions (cryopaint is not proven). In dry ones swamp cooling and fans help.

However, I’m not sure many people are saying air conditioning is a solution to climate change.

Many are saying it’s an adaptation necessary to survive in warming humid regions. The human body cannot thermoregulate in wet bulb temperatures above 35c. Fans don’t help as the body cannot evaporate sweat into saturated air that is as warm or warmer. Air conditioning not only cools, but removes humidity.

If you get a severe case of influenza, it comes with a fever. The fever is a symptom, not the underlying cause of the illness, but it can kill faster. As a result, you need to treat it as well as the flu, often with acetaminophen. Air conditioning does not treat the underlying cause, but it can mitigate the symptom that kills fastest.

Sure it does. It can send help.

I cannot stress enough that Canada is a sovereign country and not under the jurisdiction of the EPA.

It’s incredible Republicans seem to develop morals once they lose their primaries or are out of office.

Yes, but it’s moot from a privacy standpoint for most if you bring your cell phone in the car.

I think he might have been into tbat.

We missed that opportunity. I will now go my life wondering what could have been if I left my wife and kids, and started anew with the foot freak in seat 23A.

I legitimately think he would have liked that.

Not a single open seat on the flight.

I was with my family, so I simply adopted a wide stance.

Oh it wasn’t staged.

I would say I don’t know the guy, but given his foot poked and carressed my leg at various points during the flight, I would argue we are at some greater level of intimacy.