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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 16h

Hopefully!

Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 16h

God I hate to be that guy but the grid needs to run all the 8760 hours of the year, and for many of those we might not get enough wind and sun. This is why natural gas is a good fit with renewables. It’s less bad than coal and you can still turn it on and off

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17h

Building gas plants purely for peak today seems dubious. Unluckily for us we have coal plants that can be replaced by gas plants, and maybe in a couple decades those plants become peakers

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17h

And gas plants today would repalce coal plants, and run regularly. In the future they could be peakers, but by then as you say the infra building and depreciation would make them very cheap to simply turn on. That's my take

Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17h

Right - a few things. LCOE (this measure) doesnt account for when you need the energy. Renewables definitely the cheapest option, but they are intermittent - not on demand (that's why I pointed to the + Storage option).

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 17h

"But provided that methane emissions are well managed, it’s not as problematic in terms of planetary warming as coal or oil." It's telling that folks dont seem interested in figuring out how to prevent leaks, they rather the blanket statement

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 19h

It’s way beyond my depth, but my understanding is that renewables + batteries — while way cheaper than before, might not be cheapest option (look at offshore wind range which exclude storage). Rarely used gas plants could still be useful decades from now for resiliency

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks!

Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 21h

Latest I see on the website is August?

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

I am - as I'm sure you are - shocked at our ability to ignore impending crises of all types

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

We have barely transitioned at all. We are a laggard, even in Canada. I look at the hate directed to NS Power and doubt that we could stomach the cost of going straight to Wind+Batteries, what's your route to zero?

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Because it means we dont need to build as many grid scale batteries. You'll both get chances to write about NS Power, and I'll appreciate the same conviction in explaining why climate action is worth paying for

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

*Could* doing a lot of work here. Take a guess: is it better than coal or not? Is it exactly the same? What are the odds of that? What about the other harms of coal?

It's a complicated issue, but I'm convinced gas is better than coal - and in a crisis I'll take better than coal - would you?

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Equivocating too soft, this is pure opposition to a 40% emissions reduction on a non intermittent electricity.

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Always disappointing to see urgent calls for climate action - and then equivocating on natural gas, even as it has clearly cut emissions in other places and can work very well in a renewable buildout. We still burn COAL. Smells to me like the ideological crusade trumps the climate concern

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it

commentary by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it - Halifax Examiner

Not even a year into his second mandate as premier, Houston is proving himself to be yesterday’s man, surrounded by yes-men with yesterday’s plans, which weaken democracy and spell climate and environ...

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

One year since Mayor Andy Fillmore’s election. What has been accomplished?

-Useless debates about bike lanes 🚲
-Grovelling for Strong mayor powers ✊
-Nothing on enabling more housing 🏡

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 3d

Would love to see this for Canada

Ant Breach @antbreach.bsky.social · 4d

Great chart here from @resfoundation.bsky.social on housing costs by square metre by age. Britain's problems with Nimbyism and the planning system in a nutshell.

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 4d

lol

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Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 5d

New blog - on the stunning reversal going on at CBU
open.substack.com/pub/deny/p/e...

Enrolment collapse at Cape Breton University

International student cap brings enrolment back towards 2020 levels

open.substack.com

Deny Sullivan @denysullivan.bsky.social · 6d

Woah - development charges must be super high there!

Reposted by Deny Sullivan

Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 10d

"Haligonians are rightfully frustrated about traffic congestion. But the premier’s promise has pushed another 10,000 cars onto the roads, clogging up your commute. These 10,000 trips are trips that the drivers were previously not willing to pay a single dollar to make"