It can take less than 5 mins for frostbite to set in. Please carry extra jackets, blankets, hand/feet warmers, booster cables, etc. in your car - doing so can save lives. Stay safe!
Avis aux rennais : les soutiens a l #agriculture paysanne seront bienvenus ces 3 prochains jours devant la Draaf de Bretagne, quartier Beauregard. Il y a des crepes, de la bonne humeur et des vaches.
Passez prendre l apéro et soutenir les paysans sur place ! 😉
"Grazers can bring myriad benefits to landscapes. Bison can improve plant diversity in Midwest #prairies by cropping dominant grasses. Elephants boost #carbon storage in African #forests by munching on less carbon-rich trees.
"But there’s another side to the coin. Their appetite for greenery, particularly when inflicted on already damaged #ecosystems or left untamed by predators, can wreak havoc."
One of the easiest plants to spot on the prairie - Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa). This showy plant is native to open and dry grasslands of much of North America, but is now popular in flower gardens worldwide. Like other members of its genus - and true to its common name - it is an insect favorite.
White Wild Indigo (Babtisia alba) stands out in the prairie, its inflorescences towering over the green. Like other legumes, this species forms symbioses with soil bacteria that turn inert nitrogen from the air into nutrients for their host plants. They live in small root nodules and help improve the soil over time.
With the dense #smoke from #Canadian#wildfires blanketing #NYC today, I've seen a bunch of comments from #Americans along the lines of "Wow, how bad must in be in Canada?"
This is counter-intuitive, but I'm in the Canadian #prairies. There are wildfires across northern #Saskatchewan, #Alberta, and #BC. And we haven't had any smoke here for weeks.
The smoke can go up into the #atmosphere, drift a long way, and then be pressed down to the ground again by a high-pressure system.
#EVs just aren't practical for some people here. I regularly do a trip where I drive ~300km, stay for five hours, and drive home again. In the winter, when it's -30C, and you're driving into a (minimum) 110km/h headwind, you need the heater on full blast, all the way.
An #EV doesn't have a lot of waste heat to spare, so they need an #electrical#resistance#heater. Heat pumps don't work at -30C either.
To replace a gas station than can refuel 100 cars/hour with #superchargers that are capable of fast-charging (30mins) a 75 kWh pack, you need 50 #chargers at 150 kW each. And that's not accounting for the fact that charging is not 100% #efficient.
That's 7.5MW. If you're in that smallish town and call the power company and ask for a 7.5MW feed, they'll laugh and hang up.
2 years? Not possible here. If we wanted to replace 80% of ICE vehicles with BEVs, we need major electrical #generation and #transmission upgrades. I'm #guesstimating it it started today, it would take 20 years.
Skye says don’t forget to stop and smell the flowers with your booper! Spring has finally arrived in the Canadian North and Skye’s yard is filled with beautiful blooms. 🌸💕
I knew a woman who bought a house in Riceton (just outside Regina) - population 33 in 2021 - for $6000 to live in for the duration of her university studies. That was equivalent to 1 year's rent on an apartment in the city at that time.
So, #millennials ... still think you'll never be able to buy a house? Come to the #prairies ...