I think we could take 400 000 immigrants a year—probably less than 1% of our current population—particularly Americans, and maybe some Mexicans.
We could end subsidies for the rich, and change our so-called “intellectual property” laws to say ending it after 28 years.
Also we could purchase far less overpriced crap from the US military-industrial complex. It might be time to leave NATO and NORAD as Trump’s America is perhaps a greater threat to Canada than the PRC, Iran, and Russia combined.
I mean you’re talking about removing an energy export and replacing it with imports. How do we get the money to begin with to pay for the solar and batteries we will need to import from China, who refine all the rare earth and builds all the solar panels using cheap coal?
Right now, as we post, the Sun is radiating on Canada:
((at least 100 watts/sq meter x 1 million sq m/sq km x at least 4 million sq km) ÷ 1 billion watts/gigawatt =)
at least 400 000 gigawatts of solar power.
If we harvested 0.1% of it, that’d be about 400 gigawatts of solar power, or about 10 kilowatts per Canadian.
Maybe we could line highways such as the 401, and the Canada-US border, with big beautiful windmills.
As electrical storage would not have to be mobile, the batteries need not be lithium or even lead acid, but wp:nickel–iron batteries, or maybe use wp:Pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
I think we could take 400 000 immigrants a year—probably less than 1% of our current population—particularly Americans, and maybe some Mexicans.
We could end subsidies for the rich, and change our so-called “intellectual property” laws to say ending it after 28 years.
Also we could purchase far less overpriced crap from the US military-industrial complex. It might be time to leave NATO and NORAD as Trump’s America is perhaps a greater threat to Canada than the PRC, Iran, and Russia combined.
I mean you’re talking about removing an energy export and replacing it with imports. How do we get the money to begin with to pay for the solar and batteries we will need to import from China, who refine all the rare earth and builds all the solar panels using cheap coal?