This is something every single farmer in Canada and the World should watch!

[furrowtickler]

I know 2 farms that have ground source heat pumps and they heat and cool fine and have stuck with them.

Do you think the technology and experience with heat pumps from 20 years ago is relevant to 2024?

Are you still using dial up internet and a party line?

Do you have ground source heat pumps ? If not why ?

[chuckChuck]

Solar and wind energy are great as window dressing but are completely useless when needed desperately.
we don’t live in the southern hemisphere, it gets somewhat chilly here 5 months of the year

Bullshite.

Mine produce 35000 kwh per year which is on average what our farm uses. Saving us from paying Sask power and all carbon tax free. Over their 25-30 year lifetime the estimated cost of each kwh is about 8 cents. Sask Power is currently charging about 15 cents. And their rates will continue to rise.

The 35,000 kwh I produce displace the 35,000 kwh that would have come from fossil fuels reducing carbon emissions.

At the utility scale solar and onshore wind are the lowest cost forms of new electricity generation in many regions of the world. They can increase generation capacity quickly and more cheaply than many other sources.

Backed up by other sources of sufficient capacity they reduce carbon emissions.

We already are capable of storing renewable electricity in EVs, grid batteries, ammonia, compressed air, pumped hydro.

A5 keeps telling us that it will be overproduced when the sun is shining and be not worth anything in the market. What a terrible problem to have. Surplus and really low cost electricity. Bring it on!

[cropgrower]

Bullshite.

Mine produce 35000 kwh per year which is on average what our farm uses. Saving us from paying Sask power and all carbon tax free. Over their 25-30 year lifetime the estimated cost of each kwh is about 8 cents. Sask Power is currently charging about 15 cents. And their rates will continue to rise.

The 35,000 kwh I produce displace the 35,000 kwh that would have come from fossil fuels reducing carbon emissions.

At the utility scale solar and onshore wind are the lowest cost forms of new electricity generation in many regions of the world. They can increase generation capacity quickly and more cheaply than many other sources.

Backed up by other sources of sufficient capacity they reduce carbon emissions.

We already are capable of storing renewable electricity in EVs, grid batteries, ammonia, compressed air, pumped hydro.

A5 keeps telling us that it will be overproduced when the sun is shining and be not worth anything in the market. What a terrible problem to have. Surplus and really low cost electricity. Bring it on!

Coming from sombody as brainwashed as you i would not believe a word of that , at this stage liberals lie far more than they tell the truth

[TOM4CWB]

One large solar flare… which our sun is long overdue to expel… and every windmill and solar panel is toast.

….not to mention what happens to the electrical grid…

How stupid are we????

…our type of star (our Sun) on average in the Universe has a life extinction solar emissions event every 100 years.

we are long long overdue… for a major solar event…Electrification of everything is unbelievably foolish…

as is Canadian decarbonization in a world where we only produce 1.5 of the earth’s carbon emissions.

Suicidal stupidity CC… think about your deception you want us to believe!!!

The Fear and Respect for God… not climate change… is the beginning of all Wisdom.

Many Blessings… pull your head out of the sand… or concrete… or what ever substance you chose… Change is life altering!!!

Cheers!!!

[SASKFARMER]

Anything from Chuck is bullshit.

Lberals lie.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

A5 keeps telling us that it will be overproduced when the sun is shining and be not worth anything in the market. What a terrible problem to have. Surplus and really low cost electricity. Bring it on!

that is not what I said. I said it will be less than worthless. Since load shedding to get rid of excess generation is expensive. It will actually cost you money to generate solar energy when the sun is shining. The grid literally needs to pay another jurisdiction to take the useless energy. Or devise complex expensive Rube Goldberg devices for pointlessly consuming the energy.

[SASKFARMER]

Hammer meets nail moment. The liberal is schooled

[phoenix64]

I challenge everyone that posts on hear not to respond or read anything “chuck the circus clown” has to say. Totally useless commentary, quit reading anything he has to say years ago. I have followed many forums over the years and find if socialist trolls are disregarded they eventually move on to where someone else will listen to their rubbish….let’s give er a try

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I challenge everyone that posts on hear not to respond or read anything “chuck the circus clown” has to say. Totally useless commentary, quit reading anything he has to say years ago. I have followed many forums over the years and find if socialist trolls are disregarded they eventually move on to where someone else will listen to their rubbish….let’s give er a try

But then what will I do for cheap entertainment?

[chuckChuck]

1:30pm today my solar PV system was putting out 17.5 kw. Short days but still significant amounts of generation during sunny days.

And the wind has been blowing like hell for several days in the eastern prairies turning the wind mills.

[chuckChuck]

Phoenix64 is that your IQ or age? Are you in Phoenix complaining about the cold on the Prairies?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

1:30pm today my solar PV system was putting out 17.5 kw. Short days but still significant amounts of generation during sunny days.

And the wind has been blowing like hell for several days in the eastern prairies turning the wind mills.

And where do you think that 17.5 kW that you are instantaneously "putting out" is going? Or do you have a load which exactly matches that? An ammonia fertilizer plant on your farm for example?

[biglentil]

Thats really amazing Chuck. You might of produced upwards of 100kw today being it was bright and sunny. Saskpower credits back 4 cents per kw so you produced about $4 of electricity. You might even produce $800 of electricity a year. You must have at least 30panels or more so in 30 years or so, if the panels last that long, they will have payed for themselves.

[fjlip]

And the wind has been blowing like hell ....then they have to be shut down or FLY apart...TOO cold and they won't turn....TOO hot and they start on fire....

[chuckChuck]

A5 The unused surplus is going back into the grid. What did you think happened with grid tied systems with a 2 way meter? Somebody else is using it.