Comments by "Neolithic Transit Revolution" (@neolithictransitrevolution427) on "Electrifying natural resources to counter Trump's tariff war" video.

Toronto should be investing in "E-Highways" as we see in Germany to allow Diesel trucks to run electrically over high demand sections of road, and with that infrastructure, allow EV trucking with much smaller batteries because they are able to recharge while operating. Montreal and Ottawa should as well, and then with some electrification along the 401, you create a regional network.
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One area of significant methane leakage is the pump stations on pipelines. These should be widely electrified.
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In terms of Agriculture, and really it's aquaculture, we should be building a Kelp industry. That kelp could be carbon feed stock, animal feed, fertilizer, or chemical input. It would revitalize our coastal waters by adsorpting the nutrients we flush down the st. Lawrence, low acidity, raise oxygen, and increase fish breeding space.
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In terms of Agriculture, we should be looking at Pleistocene Park. We could be converting massive swaths of Tundra to grassland we can use as grazing land to take pressure of rainforests, and in doing so not only make them Carbon Sinks with the Grass, but also lock in permafrost methane by lowering soil temperatures
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In terms of getting mines of Diesel, there has for many years been conversation around a Great Slave Lake grid. A lot of mining in NWT could be electrified on the east side of the lake if we could get this built. And it would allow for connection to the North of Saskatchewan. We also need to be connecting the West Hudson Bay coast to Manitoba, although idk how much mining is there
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In terms of "electrifying" the oil sands, we should be leveraging the enormous demand for hydrogen at the upgraders for green hydrogen development. For the actual extraction of Bitumen, and least insitu like SAGD, I have seen either using dilutant pumped into the reservoir to make it flow or the Microwave technology you reference. Personally, I am strongly preferential to not electrifying and just using SMRs or even larger Nuclear reactors to generate steam instead of NG. This also provides a baseload power generation from coproduction.
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I'm sure Enbridge would disagree that we are a safe place to invest, given Northern Gateway. And a lot of Renewable companies would say the same due to Smith and Ford before her. So that isn't great
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@vanhoot2234 the turbines that spin to pump the NG. Transmountain uses electrified pump stations.
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@vanhoot2234 the issue is methane physical escaping. Electric pumps use a magnetic system so there is no ability for methane to leave the pipe
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@vanhoot2234 sorry, now that I'm awake, the way NG pump stations normally work is they vent some of the NG from the pipeline into a side compartment. This side compartment also takes in air, to fuel combustion, and just like in a powerplant that combustion spins a turbine, but instead of generating electricity it pressurizes the pipeline. And it does this by spinning a wheel inside the pipeline, again usually, using a physical axel that connects through a hole in the wall between the wheel on the inside of the pipe and the turbine in the pump station. So you have leakage along the turbine, and you have leakage where the NG is taken out of the pipe to the pump station. An electric turbine is usually a closed system. The turbine is driven with an electric motor, and there is no axel going through the pipe. Often a magnetic mechanism may be used so the a motor spinning externally pulls a wheel increasing pressure internally without physical contact. Otherwise the motor may be internal (harder to maintain). But no NG has to be diverted to spin. Don't quote this number but I believe something like 14% of methane leakage from NG is in pipelines mainly at pump stations. Beside the fact that you are burning NG, reducing product moved and releasing emissions, rather than powering the pump with some mix of renewables.
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