Comments by "Neolithic Transit Revolution" (@neolithictransitrevolution427) on "" video.

  1. We need to create a subsidy and regulatory environment themat encouraged a domestic mining boom. But we need to protect manufacturing. As part of this economy, there is battery manufacturing for grid and EVs. We also need to capture the supply line and produce the heavy vehicles for mining/forestry/drilling/construction/Military/trucking uses. As a very large, resource focused economy, we have an unusually large potential market to leverage. This is a life line for Ontario that needs to be thrown. Ideally we should develop a heat pump industry as well. While we have a relatively low population, its generally very cold, and if we specialise in cold weather models we have a very large markey.
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  2. Alberta and BC need to build hydro transmission between Edmonton and Site C, and Calgary and Revelstoke. We need to connect the North amd South side if Great Slave lake in NWT, and connect them to Uranium City Saskatchewan. We also need to connect the west side of Hudson Bay to Manitoba
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  3. I don't think an east west electrical connection is particularly important or cost effective. I'd argue for the same cost building regional power generation is more effective. The only real purpose I can see is for Manitoba to flip a GW of Capacity between east and west. I think that is a very low capacity and high cost approach to supporring the battery industry we want to build, and something like underwater compressed storage, and SMRs.
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  4. In order to help Quebec and Manitoba replace US hydro exports, it may be worth building transmission from both to Southern Ontario. However, I think building our server farms is a far more practical solution. Server farms offer large anchor loads with effectively global export capacity. The major cost is electricty, which we have both cheap and cleanly, but the major component of that electrical demand is for cooling, which we have in even more abundance. In particular, combining a built out of server farms using geothermal heating and cooling would provide an opportunity to move drigging rigs and apply existing industry experience on to geothermal activity, and build our overall geothermal drilling knowledge. With geothermal cooling, we may be able to extend mass servers to renewables on the prairies as well. I think importantly, we should consider the scale of such purchases, and what that kind of customer is worth to a supplier. We'd likely be able to leverage such large purchases against the company or a country to receive an investment deal of some kind. Maybe get a Chip FAB or a pipeline for it. I also think there are strategic advantages to having a considerable server capacity, and other countries may also favour us for apparent rule of law and relatively safe neighborhood. We do have to make sure we don't allow it to price out consumers, but we're a ways away from that. In the meantime, backing our telecom companies to do it may allow them to make more revenue on server sales and lower phone prices, and backing the provincial utilities would allow renewable resource development in more remote locations.
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