Barry Shell

Retired science writer

[Barry Shell @bj_shell]

Just saw these new 2024 car sales facts on StatsCanada.
https://t.co/qbfqp81qGr
Quebec leads in EV sales. It's why a pipeline to Quebec will never happen.
EV sales up 41%, but gas car sales only increased by 1%! They will soon become collector items like horse drawn carriages.

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@BaldUpNorth @stephen_taylor No. Wasn’t that Harper?

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@jimfarley98 @Ford As the price of solar power drops car companies will offer solar panel installation as a low cost option or maybe even for free and then the car is free to drive for life. This will happen for sure.

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@HeidiBriones Eat half of anything you get

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@geraldposner I wonder if the deputy secretary general could have something to do with it? https://t.co/IS5Stit9hz

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@BrentToderian Vancouver. Uncanny that there is not one single pedestrianized street in this car-mad city. It would be so easy to do. Eg. Granville or Robson. I mean true pedestrianization 365 days. Limited Vehicle access from 11:00pm till 10:00am perhaps. Like a thousand other cities.

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@vortuosity Given that our species evolved for hundreds of thousands of years to sit by camp fires and candles or oil lamps It’s safe to say you will be fine.

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What's Canada doing for global warming? Last summer production of crude oil rose 1.5% to 24.8 million cubic metres, the highest volume in history. This was the third consecutive monthly year-over-year increase, driven by production of synthetic crude oil, up 16.6%. Yay Canada!

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Our bands latest music video with original song for Halloween 2023: https://t.co/bdbUkIsLqw

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@j_mcelroy I am in Japan. There is no housing crisis. No homeless. A 1BR apartment in Tokyo or Kyoto rents for $350/mo. A small family home costs about $300,000 in CA$. These are world class cities arguably far more sophisticated than Vancouver. Housing is not an investment tool here.

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@melodyma @BillTieleman @CityofVancouver The totally empty multi floor parking lot is a total waste of real estate.

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Every newscast about wildfires, hurricanes, and floods should state that national production of oil and gas INCREASES every month and that government policy encourages EVER INCREASING PRODUCTION of fossil fuels which is the root cause of this "unprecedented" disaster.

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@j_mcelroy Lululemon ass bra

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@j_mcelroy Canada line is a totally different technology from a different country (Korea) so it’s very very different.

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@teslaownersSV Vancouver Canada. There’s like 100,000 Teslas here.

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@fabulavancouver Every few years you have to get your broker to shop around and get you a better deal from a different company. It can be done. If they say no, get a new broker.

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@peternowak Can someone please provide CA$ numbers for any of these new rates?

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This is worth reading. More than a century after colonization nearly eradicated key fish populations around Vancouver, British Columbia, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation is looking to the past to restore the ecosystem.
https://t.co/K1QhnCZo7w via @hakaimagazine

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@drmichaellevin All good stuff on Earth right now is due to cheap energy (from fossil fuels) including your lab, research, home, food, everything. But it's hurting the planet and all life. We need to change to solar energy. This CAN be done, will be cheaper, and will define the world 2123.

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@george__mack No one will build a house or building without solar panels in the same way that nobody makes homes or buildings without toilets today.