Very intense cold spear comes down on Toronto

 

This is great physics.  On the mimic, you can't see much.  There is no blob with a clear edge, and we have the Pacific intrusion that isn't coming down as a clipper, yet.  You just see it on the 'minimum temp' plot.  It has to be coming very fast to cut through all that warmth and freeze us in the afternoon, according to the weather people.

Gather in the tomatoes, this is a 'freezer' for sure.

ps.  Since I'm the only unpopular blog that doesn't use AI, my hits have gone up to 12k per day, but no sign of life.  That's those darn AI scrapers, and they'll soon drop me when they realize what I am doing to them.  That's why those big billion-dollar AI's are doomed, they are forced to eat their own poop.

ps. the intensity of the spear is more obvious on the wind video.

This is coming in very low, so it will hit this afternoon, but the warm weather will take days to clear.  The fun of 3 dimensions.

Toronto lithium batteries conk out

 

At least they aren't catching on fire.  There's no big hurry here, because they are charging twice as much for water, if a battery conks out.  

They expected these batteries to last for 20 years, but they are only lasting 10, which is darn good for lithium.  What were they smoking for the 20 year promise?  Good thing, these new guys are smart and can blame the old guys.  They'll probably go for 20 years again.

Lithium batteries are a horrible chemistry.  They are going to promise 20 years for the new solid-state batteries -- ha.  Toyota is getting 20 years for the nimh batteries in my hybrid, but that's rechargeable.  For the meters, they wanted 20 years with no charge.  Totally new engineering.

Go for the nuclear gold!

 

A fine picture of farmland.  They have a choice between stagnation, and all the kids leaving, one way or another, and lots of money.  I say go for it, since it will never be built anyway.

This is just like when Bruce wanted to build a nuclear plant on Lake Erie.  Physics finally caught up with that.  I always loved nuclear plants because, at one time, you could cower the power-people by saying "Stupidity means no plant".  These days, you can't do that.  But you can say to the people - "Stupidity means no waste storage."

I especially like that they must sink a shaft to stop looking stupid to stupids.  You can never a call stupid people 'stupid' because that's the one thing they know, and they put up a vicious fight.  Instead, they ignore you, and you ignore them.

We had to use the entire output of the cement plant to dig some shallow tunnels at Bruce.  All that cement powder is being used, right now, to raise giant condos that will never be filled.  That should stop soon, leaving lots of cement for this.

The big problem is that the rock is so open, that all the grout in the world doesn't help.  But, they will do it anyway, because it's the only thing to do.  Lots of work, lots of money.  At the end, we accepted that the Bruce tunnels were as leaky as a sieve, because they were intake tunnels, anyway.  You can't take nice pictures of a nuclear waste site, in the rain.

You can see here that all the water is off to the side, and can be ignored.  A nuclear waste site must have 'diffusion conditions', but most people are trying to avoid that by hand-waving.  There is only one site in the world I've seen that totally diffusion, and that's politically a no-no.