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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hmmm, but surely the US strategy is increasing their domestic vehicle manufacturing and exports while China's are decreasing...I wonder what those charts show?

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Why is the byline on the story 'CBC News'? I don't know if I've ever seen a CBC article without the author's name attached. Seems like their policies contradict here, and the lack of byline means it's just info cobbled together from various sources

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One bit of feedback - the energy per car units seem off, should that be MWh instead of kWh?

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a super silly take. Canada's governments have never had a credible plan to replace oil and gas with wind and solar. They have been intentional laggards due to O&G influence. The UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany China, and others are well on their way, though. Those are our customers

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's not a matter of liking it or not, it's a matter of understanding that garbage inputs into a model create garbage outputs. This model assumes wind and solar ratios are the same in the future, while in reality SA solar is growing faster, which will prevent the level of charge shortfall shown.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Oh you mean like the giant perpetual fireballs we already do from coast to coast to coast?

Centennial flame wasting gas in front of the Canadian parliament.

Vancouver Olympic flame, you guessed it, wasting gas.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm guessing this was the image they had in mind, and then simplified the wires to the point that they don't even connect:

Photo of two-arm, three-phase AC transmission towers.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

It's limited to crown corps and similar muni/FN owned orgs, pension funds and the CIB. Otherwise, non-profits and ministries are excluded. The summary pages are vague but the final Clean Electricity ITC legislation refers to the specific entity types in the Income Tax Act that it applies to.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

But overall, 50% is achievable in the long run. Regardless, the point was more to show that efficiencies, higher string voltages, and similar module innovations can still reduce balance of system costs even if module cost becomes negligible

Chart of NREL best research cell efficiencies for solar

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Goldschläger, aka Orbitz for grownups

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Just because your corporate donor list isn't anonymous doesn't mean you're not an astroturf group. You're cosplaying as citizens concerned about affordability/dependability but are mostly corporate interests looking to profit off of gas (or get jobs in it). journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Here's the table if anyone wants the original source (IPCC AR5 Annex III). The upper bounds for hydro is higher than any other source, even though the median is very low. It really needs to be evaluated case-by-case, with an eye on methane/short-term impacts, which the Crown utils likely don't do

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

There's only one Full Force legally authorized to deploy in American streets,

Album cover for Full Force's "Your Love is SO DEF"

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Can confirm, the process is terrible: -confusing information update required for access to the verification website (requirement later dropped) -access to the verification process takes up to 2 days after the initial request (I had to request twice) -confirmation after unclear (see screenshot)

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A picture really is worth a thousand words sometimes. This is what they're talking about, the most extreme ramshackle version of Hong Kong, which no longer exists.

Aerial photo of Kowloon Walled City prior to its demolition.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Not a historian, the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan (and trying to erase any cultural contributions from women) immediately comes to mind.

A photo of Trump secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This graph shows how unserious we are about being an 'energy superpower' in the 21st century. In 20 years, the oil and gas export trendlines are going to be the inverse of this. ourworldindata.org/grapher/shar...

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

And unless Europe and China both kill their accelerating energy transitions, they're building for a market that doesn't exist. Output from LNG plants already under construction is way bigger than expected demand, even without additional climate action.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Where is this LNG market you're talking about? Is it still going to be growing in 5+ years after another pipeline is built? Overbuilding infrastructure isn't a good economic strategy. The plants already under construction exceed the forecast demand until gas use starts to decline in the 2030s

IEA chart showing LNG plants under construction meeting global demand past 2035

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Global gas (and oil) markets will almost certainly peak and start to decline by 2030. Even the IEA says so, for their lowest low-renewables scenario. And they have a history of wildly under-forecasting solar. It makes no sense for Canada to build pipelines that will open to shrinking demand.

Charts projecting global oil, electricity and gas use through 2035

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

How is this real? It seems aimed at people less than 1/3 of legal voting age. And they have so many similar ones...

Screenshot of weird Conservative Party web poll with leading questions

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some cold comfort: Musk's drop in personal wealth is happening several times faster than the DOGE cuts. Lost $9 billion just today.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Ahh yes, diversifying gas exports by selling to Europe, whose consumption is (checks notes)... ...down 25% from its peak, with programs to aggressively reduce gas use in almost every country

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Here are the charts. China's EV sales up 10x, car exports up 6x. Hard to make the case for more oil export investment in this context. Outside of the US, these trends are accelerating. These are the types of markets our export policy should be tailored to.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

$25k-$65k in electricity cost savings is nothing to sneeze at.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Framing treason as something people just "don't like" is missing the point laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-4...

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Seems like the new NEMA standard is basically them explaining this point for inspectors & utilities. It's great that V2G-AC is included in the standards and all, but I'd be willing to bet you'll never see such a creature in the wild - it's effectively just a red herring to confuse the AHJs.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If I was holding billions in US bonds and there were credible rumours that they could become non-liquid and non-interest bearing while the US devalued its currency, I would probably be planning a fire sale right about now #finance #uspoli www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/20...

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We should build project pipelines for the energy sources with a fast-growing, multi-trillion-dollar market; not physical pipelines to chase a declining market, which will only increase our pain during the next oil price crash. Unfortunately, the shills have a bigger pulpit than the realists.

IEA chart showing declining fossil fuel investment being dwarfed by rapid growth in clean energy investment, now worth $2 trillion per year

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Before we rush to put our scarce investment dollars into pipelines, which take a decade to build and cost $35 billion apiece, let's think about where the real growth markets are. It's time to truly diversify our markets, make like Canadians, and skate to where the puck is going. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

IEA chart showing global investment in clean energy outpacing investment in fossil fuels by nearly $1 Trillion USD/year

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

True, I had forgotten all about the digital trading cards. Eerily foreboding AF.

Trump with a rifle and hunting garb in front of the smoky Hollywood Hills, but the sign says TRUMPWORLD

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This doesn't seem like a design with fire safety in mind

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The LCOE of these is incredibly low. Yield is a bit less, but these can cost less an a Euro per watt. No labour, no BOS costs, no permitting, minimal wiring and mounting hardware.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Another is accelerated depreciation cost due to an expected transition away from gas. This was actually noted in the commission filings, but as a future possibility and not a contributor to the present increase.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

One more clarification, because GM's documentation is super confusing: 11.5kW is the inverter output and short term surge capacity is even higher, 9.6kW is the rated continuous output of the batteries to the house. Spec sheet attached.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sounds like it might be time for a citizens' movement to un-designate cis-labeled bathrooms, so that trans folks can't be prosecuted for 'knowingly' using them. Here's an all gender restroom label brought to you by the Uihleins - print a few of these as stickers and help protect your neighbors.

Screenshot of an 'all gender restroom' sign available on the ULINE website

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