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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of when John Horgan announced the coal job he had lined up while still in the legislature.

Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Biting on granite is such an accurate description of the PSC process (most of the time). Feels like Sisyphus hauling a boulder up a mountain of paperwork only to get knocked down at the peak by an indifferent ex-utility staffer.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Be one with the monkey. Let that horse play.

A monkey is sitting among green leaves, holding a cigarette in its mouth and a lighter in its hand. Overlay text reads, "What the Monkey considers business, the Horse considers play."

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 06/10/2026

I know the main headline here is PQ back in power and possibly a referendum to follow, but the 1a headline is absolutely that first past the post is not a great fit for politics in Quebec (and other provinces) at the moment.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Much obliged, now I can continue with my splash pad energy modeling side quest

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would like to hear some splash pad hours facts

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Denmark, Iceland, and Norway of course are almost all EV sales now. What's most interesting to me is that a big chunk of the EU market (UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria) are around 45% BEV/PHEV and seem set to be over 50% EV sales by early next year.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, the article is a bad translation, conflates petrol/diesel sales and doesn't note that mild hybrid sales are at 36%. Overall plugin vehicle share in the EU was 32% in August. Some more individual countries are past 50% plug-in now - Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands.

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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🇬🇧 UK - September 26 - BEV Trajectory 28.3% BEV 17.0% PHEV 54.7% ICE (of which 13.1%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 26.5% BEV 13.6% PHEV 59.8% ICE (of which 13.6%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026

Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting."

"There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

May be because its replies aren't attached to posts...it's just eructating into the void

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I imagine that most of the Ministry's work involves supplying a digital picture frame in Carney's office with a rotating display of AI-generated 'masterpieces'

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the hard hitting journalism we're all here for

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

That is one of the strangest things anyone's ever said to me. Are you sure you're not a bot? Dispute what I said, or not. The choice is yours. The facts are there, plain as day.

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

Back in my day we called these weasel words

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

You can pretend anything is negligible and unimportant if you break it down into small enough pieces. Making civilization work requires collective action. Why build a pipeline if it only feeds less than 1% of global oil demand? Why show up at the polls if you only have one vote?

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

Motivation isn't the only benefit, either. If you see that the other 98% is electrifying, it's critical to reorient your energy production and associated industries so that you have jobs and exports in the future. Increasing our dependence on a commodity set to decline is a bad idea.

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

Yes! It drives me nuts that more people don't know that Canadian rooftops and Australian rooftops have almost the same solar potential. Policy is the main reason for their success and our failure.

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

Don't sell critical minerals -- the raw logs of the 21st century. They're in high demand, so let's build magnets and wires and motors and generators and cars with them here, too. Let's build prefab microgrids and ship the all over the world. We're only limited by our lack of imagination.

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

There are a lot of export opportunities connected to renewables and batteries and EVs and electrification. The raw materials that go into them. The technology, electronics, system design, manufacturing. South Korea builds floating LNG terminals for us...we can export infrastructure, instead.

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

No wonder those are all the opportunities people can see if that's the information they're getting from most media outlets across the spectrum.

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

I think people genuinely don't realize the scale of investment in renewables and electrification vs. oil and gas. It's double. Over $2T/yr last year. Certainly more now. When I listen to the CBC evening news, it starts with a FortisBC greenwashing ad. Then the content is all pipelines & LNG.

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

Weird is right, gambling tens of billions on the world not following the S-curve EV growth underway in China, Norway, Nepal, Denmark, Singapore, Finland, Uruguay, Sweden, Netherlands, Iceland, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland - all over 50% EV sales. EU, SK, Thailand, Indonesia now ~30%. Big markets.

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

Water heater sales in France are roughly 80% resistance / 20% chauffe-eau thermodynamique (heat pump), very few gas units sold now. Roughly half of the existing stock is electric. If all are converted to heat pump, electricity use will decline substantially, especially if augmenting space cooling.

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

Ahh that was my other thought. Hopefully it's helpful feedback from an international audience. Cheers!

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

I just mean that I would expect around 10000kWh per ICE car per year in Canada, the energy use shown is ~1/1000 of that.

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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 · 02/10/2026

That's way more than I was expecting. The Sankey diagrams/slider are super helpful, too. Thanks for building such a great tool / database!

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

And if you're questioning the Canada figure, 690GW of solar was installed globally last year, producing 760TWh annually at the global average output. Canada only has 170GW of generation capacity and 620TWh annual consumption. So in reality, enough to power Canada AND Norway. I underestimated it

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

These are facts that you can verify and cross-reference with a quick web search and a calculator. 25kg solar = 500W nameplate = 600kWh annual = 15,000kWh lifetime = 75,000 km @ 5km/kWh. Calling everything propaganda seems like a tedious way to engage with the world, but you do you I guess.

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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The less nice looking downloadable GIF. It's really more ideal the web.

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

Do you have any estimates of how these sales numbers translate to the share of vehicle stock (by country, and globally)?

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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My favourite overview of who transitions how fast to battery electric vehicles. Observations: 1. The slower transitioning countries are those that start to transition later. 2. The fast transitioning countries are generally from Asia or South America, while North America is abysmally slow

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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🇮🇪 Ireland - September 26 - BEV Trajectory 49.3% BEV 16.8% PHEV 33.9% ICE (of which 15.4%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 27.7% BEV 15.3% PHEV 57.0% ICE (of which 25.1%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gall...

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LeRaffl @leraffl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🇵🇹 Portugal - September 26 - BEV Trajectory 47.7% BEV 15.4% PHEV 36.9% ICE (of which 17.6%p were HEV) Trailing 12 months are: 29.0% BEV 15.5% PHEV 55.5% ICE (of which 24.5%p were HEV) Graphs are available in the Gallery: leraffl.github.io/LeRaffl-Gallery

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

And if you wanna talk energy density, boy did you find the right nerd, one who knows that a single 25kg solar panel can fuel an EV for 75,000km, while 25kg of oil can only fuel an average ICE car for 400km. Solar is 200x more energy dense than gasoline.

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

As oil boosters are fond of saying, the transition won't happen overnight. Hence ongoing oil & gas production. But it's foolish to expand. Global solar investment was $450 billion last year, adding enough to power all of Canada for the next quarter century. It dwarfs global LNG investment.

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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 · 01/10/2026

Because their governments are captured by the incumbent oil industry and able to divert billions of taxpayer dollars just to make construction happen.

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

Hard agree with all this, and: all the skilled regulatory staff in the world won't help much if you have a captured commission, which is all too common. Handling this at the legislative level avoids having all those skilled folks wasting time tilting at regulatory windmills.

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

BC Hydro could even run a profitable side business using spare substation capacity to charge these swappable batteries overnight, lowering costs. They could even build it into the new East Van substation near the port that's currently in planning stages. 5 year timeline, though...

bchydro.com

East Vancouver substation

We're planning a new substation in East Vancouver to meet the changing needs of the community and to replace the Murrin Substation on Main Street, which is nearing end-of-life.

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

Battery swapping retrofits for trucks are starting to hit the market now. These have lower up front costs on both the vehicle and charging infrastructure side than models with big fixed batteries and megawatt charging, making it much easier to deploy quickly.

truckingdive.com

Trucking fleets repurpose diesel tractors with swappable electric batteries

New businesses such as powertrain converter Janus Electric are moving farther into U.S. markets, including California and Texas.

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

Short haul electric trucking to a transfer hub near Abbotsford would be pretty close to a silver bullet.

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

*sic: leafs, after our national team which we all love and support, the Ottawa Fig Leafs

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

At least they're electrifying existing high-carbon energy systems. How about we re-focus on the Canada paradox, i.e. that we're promoting massive increases in oil & gas emissions while putting electrification and CCS fig leafs on them.

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Wail Polter-Geist @willparker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buy fewer razors, pay less sales tax

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the third incident of a car driving through a residential school march in the last 5 years. Oddly high number of coincidences. When they drove through the one I was at, the police minimized and excused that one at first too. So I'd be curious what this investigation will actually show.

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