I wish I could live in the world where waste isn’t moved around the world for processing. Or if it were, it would be from poorer nations to wealthier ones, not the other way around.

Big Christmas has long perpetuated the jolly nature of the big guy. He’s rather diabolical though, having invented black lung in his workshop to cull the naughties. This is now the truth I choose to believe.

Certainly. I too commented on that. They’re letting profits literally float away. However what those researchers feel is maddening, to the capitalists is justifiable.

Why spend a dollar to retain a kilogram of methane from escaping, when that same dollar could be used to extract ten kilograms of methane? Repairing the infrastructure would be a lower return on investment, and that’s all that matters to them. They serve the bottom line.

If it were more profitable to repair and maintain the infrastructure, the infrastructure would be repaired and maintained. Alas it isn’t, and so the leaks continue.

If they had any incentive, they would test regularly for leaks. They don’t and never have.

I saw last week the Gas Leaks Project published some more data on this subject. The largest leak they found was something like 50-60 times higher than the EPA definition of a ‘super emitter’. Incredible really.

When compared to coal, methane is obviously much more efficient at energy generation. But this is true when we measure only the material burned, not when we look at the supply chain. With methane being 80-90 times more damaging to the atmosphere than the byproducts of burning coal, the end result is very tight once these leaks are accounted for.

So tight that, given the reporting requirements for methane leaks are ‘we trust you to use the honour system’, it’s more likely than not methane is doing more damage per resulting kilowatt than coal ever has. The equivalent ‘leaking’ for the coal supply chain is a lump of it falling off a train car and becoming a rock, to the benefit of only one guy. Rocks don’t tend to destroy the air, only naughty children’s Christmas mornings.

Of course this isn’t to suggest we build more coal infrastructure, just to point out that with these methane leaks being so prevalent, it’s not remotely as useful an energy source as has been believed. Remember a decade ago when ‘bridge fuel’ was mentioned in every conversation about clean energy? Honestly it’s shocking that these companies have deemed it cheaper to not even look for leaks than to keep the product they sell from floating away.

I would be happier if Tim Tams were included with this agreement.

Yes, but the all new 2028 Ford Mustang Mach-E comes with a HEPA cabin filter and racing tires guaranteed to last half the time they would on a Corolla. You can take advantage now of Ford’s More Than You Can Afford Event, and get yourself into a Mustang with Always-Low* payments across a 12² month term!

~* Always-Low payments subject to increase; does not include seven nigh mandatory monthly subscriptions~

Is this some type of new year’s resolution, a head of state every month? What a timeline this is.

That video seems to fit with the only other example I’ve seen about the sport.

After looking at an article that can actually be read, I’m more surprised than I expected to be. I assumed this price point was for a season pass type thing that included with your parking space a free shuttle given the distance. Turns out, nope. Price per game and bring your walking shoes.

I’m glad I never got into sports much.

It’s not the world I want to live in, but I would watch the alternate history miniseries where Canada decides to sell the Gordie Howe to the United States then closes the border entirely until a new administration manages to restore the country’s reputation. Probably wouldn’t end well, but the schadenfreude would be nice for a little bit.

To cheer you up a bit, here is Tom Scott talking about another ridiculous bridge, albeit quite a bit smaller.

He also allocated 15 million to the project back in 2020.

Manuel Moroun ran a television commercial years ago explicitly addressed to Trump begging him to help stop this new bridge.

The Moroun family owns the Ambassador Bridge, collecting a $50 toll from each of a few hundred trucks that cross it daily. They also own the duty free shops on either side I believe. Of course they have opposed a publicly owned bridge since the day it was proposed.

It’s not surprising Trump would be stoking the flames here. Support an old billionaire buddy’s family while simultaneously distracting from both the Epstein files and ICE? Three birds with one stone. Unfortunately for him, the time to stop the Gordie Howe was before it was built, not after billions have been spent.

This might result in delays, but the only thing coming from that is more resentment from the people that paid for it.

Okay, you right, I wrong, Merry Christmas.

I didn’t pretend marriage is universally innocent. I said it’s a tradition just like hanging colourful lights on a tree within a home in December, and that it’s just as aggressive to state everyone be rid of their decorations as that the concept of marriage should be abolished.

I didn’t say I thought you were wrong - I said the initial comment read a bit hot off the stove.

With any luck this will lead to small cars with small price tags being made available in Canada.

There are less hyperbolic ways to say marriage shouldn’t carry various legal benefits over civil unions just because it’s more or less become a tradition.

This reads like someone showing up for Christmas dinner with the family and tearing down the decorations because they don’t like how commercialized the holiday has become.

Turbine blades last twenty to thirty years. What short lifespan are referring to?

Funny how something not being ‘profitable’ for six weeks becomes newsworthy once it returns to the black.

These coal plants are in their last few years of operation as a stopgap until enough renewable infrastructure is built to replace them. I prefer these things to be used for a bit longer than have more methane power plants constructed. Evidently Germany feels the same given the reduction of 20GW to 10GW capacity over the next six years.