New Liberal Leader – First Green PM?

(cross-posted to The Oil Drum: Canada) In a stunning victory, Stephane Dion is the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and has a good chance of being the next Prime Minister of Canada. (for those not French-inclined, his name is pronounced “Stay-fan Deon”) Todays Liberal Leadership Convension was truly something to behold. Not …

Nov 15 Storm in Port Alberni

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 …

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 …