Tad Bartkiewicz🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦

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Tad Bartkiewicz🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦

Tad Bartkiewicz🇨🇦🇮🇱🇺🇦

@tadbartkiewicz

Father, Dziadziu, Traveller, Hockey Player, Cook, Geologist

Katılım Eylül 2009
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
@SGTWipper1Each Does a wooden pallet, a multi-poncho curtain and a canvas bag full of cold water count as a "proper shower"? If yes, about two weeks. If no, about four months.
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Christopher Wipper
Christopher Wipper@SGTWipper1Each·
What's the longest you've gone without a proper shower?
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Peter Clack
Peter Clack@PeterDClack·
Conventional thinking treats wind and solar as permanent infrastructure. They aren't. These are a form of short life-cycle, industrial gadgetry with roughly 15-to-25-year lifespans. They are all in various stages of permanent decay and replacement - hydrocarbon and nuclear plants last generations. We see this in the mounting graveyards of unsalvageable wreckage. Yes, much of it can be recycled in theory. But in reality, the economic and energy costs usually outweigh the benefits. They are now decomposing faster than we can replace them and this is the Treadmill Effect. If a nation installs 5 GW of wind power every year, by Year 20, they aren't expanding the grid anymore. They are being forced to build 5 GW just to replace the rusted, fatigued and degraded turbines built in Year 1. Growth flatlines, swallowed up in pure maintenance. Look at the scale of this dilemma: despite millions of massive turbines and solar arrays deployed over 40 years, hydrocarbon fuels still dominate at roughly 81% of global primary energy. Solar and wind deliver only a tiny fraction of total primary energy. We've reached the limit. Almost every turbine and panel built over the last two decades is now in the late stages of decomposition. We're struggling just to keep up; and soon we will fall behind. The mines will become hollowed-out and these 'green' rust collectors will fall apart where they stand. To feed this replacement treadmill will need an astronomical volume of minerals: like copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earths. But we have already devoured the high-grade ores. A century ago, copper ore was 5% metal. Today, major mines are crushing ore that is less than 0.5% copper. To get the same tonne of metal, you must blast, haul and crush ten times more rock. This requires more massive, diesel-guzzling mining fleets and heavy industrial smelting. We are cannibalising dense, reliable fossil energy just to chase low-density, short-lived weather collectors. Here is the Einsteinian paradox. In physics, the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the more massive it becomes, requiring exponentially more energy to move it a fraction further. The energy transition is its own relativistic wall. The closer a grid gets to 100% renewable penetration, the greater its structural costs will become. You don't just need more panels; you need a parallel universe of over-building, synchronous condensers, and continent-spanning transmission lines just to handle the asynchronous volatility. We are hitting that Inversion Point. The fossil fuel energy required to mine the rare earths, manufacture the turbines and endlessly replace the dying infrastructure will eventually outpace the net energy the system delivers. You cannot reach the limit of light. Albert Einstein - the ultimate observer of universal limits - would smile at the irony. Net Zero is being driven by an ideological bureaucracy that reads financial blueprints but ignores the periodic table and the laws of thermodynamics. Entropy is universal. Nothing can bypass it. Imagery of rust, mechanical exhaustion and the accumulation of unmanaged composite materials.
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Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱@ryangerritsen·
Any Canadian who believes our politicians can “fight the climate” clearly have the IQ of a potato. A pipeline will not alter the weather in any way. “Climate” has become a religion where no one ever dare question the gospel that is spewed about it. It has to end. The time to mock these individuals is now.
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Mandy Simard
Mandy Simard@MandyLSimard·
Have you ever seen a Bear while you were out in nature?
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Marc Nixon
Marc Nixon@MarcNixon24·
This is COMPLETE BS They formed a panel to say that Pierre Poilievre will never be Prime Minister of Canada It’s time for him to step down. This coming from the LEFT. If he’s never going to WIN why do they want him to step down so BADLY?
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Yossi BenYakar
Yossi BenYakar@YossiBenYakar·
In Canada, during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, a man openly wore the uniform of Hamas, the terrorist organization that massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, including women, children, and the elderly. A brave Canadian woman confronted him when she saw the police doing nothing. This is what Canada has become. Is Canada still safe for Jews?
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Rachel Wilson
Rachel Wilson@Rach4Patriarchy·
If you followed me for a while, you know that my beloved grandmother is very important to me. She is basically my mother. She just turned 100 last month and I got a phone call from my uncle that she fell after church today. She is in the hospital and we are waiting to find out if she has any serious injuries. They are suspecting a hip fracture. Prayers are appreciated. ❤️🙏🏻
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*Walter Bloomberg
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone·
TRUMP: IRAN HAS BEEN PLAYING GAMES W/ US, REST OF WORLD FOR 47 YEARS TRUMP: THEY WILL BE LAUGHING NO LONGER
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Love My 7 Wood
Love My 7 Wood@LoveMy7Wood·
My mother Evelyn Levine died a month ago today at 103, so today is the first Mother’s Day without her. I know she had a long wonderful life and I know it’s a Hallmark holiday but still it feels empty. They say time heals but my father died 22 years ago and I still miss him daily.
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