So yesterday we had a real ripper of a storm here in Beautiful BC. It hit most of the Southern Coast of the province including Vancouver, Victoria and Vancouver Island. Hardest hit seems to have been my own town of Port Alberni. There were trees falling everywhere, 105km/h winds on my weather station branches being …
Category Archives: Environment
Solar Industry takes LCD cues
This looks like very good news if you’re at all interested in solar power. EnergyBulletin reports that Sharp, already one of the most common solar panel suppliers, at least here in Canada, is increasing their ouput 6x. But even more importantly, the economics of making solar is apparently very attractive right now… so attractive that …
Eight more years of Natural Gas
Yes. That’s 2014… The Vancouver-Whistler Olympics are just over 3 years away… 2010… coming quick eh? 2014 is not much farther off. I’ve blogged about it before. No doubt I will be blogging about it again. Others have blogged about it in much greater detail I just want to remind everyone. And don’t be fooled, …