From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
Coming to a fire brigade near you!
Want a glimpse of just how cultist North American governments have become over all things “green,” especially electric vehicles? Vancouver is giddy about being the first city in the country to receive an all-electric fire truck.
How is that cultist?
Well, the new e-truck will cost $300,000 more than a comparable diesel model, pump 40 per cent less water and have such a short range (30 km) because of its enormous weight that it will have to have backup diesel power in case it runs out of juice on the way to a blaze.
But, the city points out, it won’t give off diesel fumes and will be much quieter than existing diesel fire trucks. Oh, yeah, cause that’s what I’m most concerned about when my house is on fire – that the pumper might be a little too loud and stinky for the neighbours.
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More expensive. Less efficient. Less effective.
Yep, it’s a Green fire engine.
Better send in the ethanol fuel fire trucks…..
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I give it less than one year before it is officially (and quietly) removed from service. Of course, it will never actually be in functional service.
Fill kiddie pools, flood backyard rinks, and if it come with an air compressor, inflate bouncy castles.
It will be just like the moronic windmill they built on top of Grouse Mountain. The MTS turbine (monument to stupidity). The blades never turn regardless of wind speed, and it’s never generated a kilowatt of usable electricity and is rusting to pieces. It’s only useful as a tourist viewing tower. Sheesh!
The politicians here and the people who vote for them (not me!) are pathelogically stupid.
Vancouver, BC. Lotus Land.
Vancouver has a maze of 800 VDC overhead trolley lines run by Translink. City Council is updating building regs as we speak to outlaw any fires not on trolley lines.
First they got “giddy”. Then they bought the truck.
$300,000 “upgrade”?
What would the Vancouver admin pay for this upgrade … mebbe millions.
This typical of the Vancouver City Council, no matter how crazy, if it’s green they want it. The only saving grace is that the City of Vancouver is only 116 sq km so the 30 km range will get the truck to the fire but maybe not home again.However, they’re scr2wed if there is another fire the same day.
There is no way to wake the woke
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Sabotage done in plain sight.
As a rural volunteer firefighter, I immediately printed a copy and hung it on our hall bulletin board so everyone can have a good laugh and head shake. The hypocrisy of cutting your capacity to a third, although in reality it’ll probably be worse than that, to reduce vehicle exhaust by what will be miniscule compared to the toxic smoke and gases (and CO2 and heat) of any large fire is staggering.
There is no practicality with such a machine for a rural municipality such as ours. It would get stuck and ruin roads due to its weight, deny fire protection to a significant portion of our municipality and fail to meet our obligations to assist other municipalities under mutual aid agreements due to its lack of range, I doubt the machine would meet the durability requirements of a significant event. We’ve been at several wildfire events that lasted days, even a week. In the week long event there were usually ten or more departments sending men and equipment daily, including pumpers, every day, on a rotating basis. On a particular day one department traveled 350 kilometers to assist – each way.
And now I’ll mention climate. There’s nary a winter we don’t have -40, and fires happen during the coldest temperatures and the darkest nights. I heard a rumour electrics don’t do well then. Add high winds anytime, and fires become very difficult to extinguish. That 40% loss of pump capacity, and I don’t know if that’s pressure or volume, doesn’t matter, would lead to failure.
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Join the crowd…..
WSJ
Companies Are Buying Large Numbers of Carbon Offsets That Don’t Cut Emissions
With the boom in renewable energy, many of the credits that trade hands merely represent a transfer of money from one profitable enterprise to another, critics say
“No one should buy any of that stuff anymore,” said Mr. Martins, who is now a senior director at the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group.
My husband’s a retired Aussie firefighter. He’s just asked what runs the pump when you get to the fire. He said that sometimes the pump’s in use for two hours and the motor’s running as well.??
Maybe they have a pump on the other end of the BMW diesel engine with the generator on it. Dunno really but the missus does a much better job of justifying the latest creation from those boutiques with hardly any stock that only carry Size 8 (madam is this Size 8 Rack here).
Meme (not copiable):
911 operator: Yes, Ma’am, I know your house is on fire, but the electric fire engine is not done charging.
What an assinine way to “virtue signal” – with people’s lives at stake.
Toss all these yokels in jail and throw away the key.
I rather think if I was the neighbor that I would like to be awake. Just in case the fire spreads to my place. What is the matter with these fools? Can we sue them is the fire brigade doesn’t arrive on time because the battery fails on the way, and someone forgot to refuel the diesel tank?
Obvious solution is to replace the Starbucks on every corner with a fire station, yes?
What’s ironic about British Columbia’s claim to be one of the continent’s greenest jurisdictions as the fact that it’s been so badly affected by wildfires for the last few years. I thought that a commitment to clean energy was supposed to reduce such a likelihood. Or maybe that province is slowly beginning to realize that it can’t stop the effects from emissions to the south and from as far away as Asia.
No
Last year was 65% of the record year, big but not unprecedented
The two years before that were 10% of average area burned and this will also be well below average.
Nothing to see
The self-extinguishing firetruck. An idea whose time has come.
Doubtful, though, that the batteries will last long enough to extinguish a fire in its own battery.
“….much quieter than existing diesel fire trucks. “
When fire trucks go screaming by, that siren drowns out every bit of noise from the diesel engine.
Do they turn off the siren as well?
It’s vancouver
It’s expected.
The premier announced they would ban ICE vehicles by 2035, then when the price of gas started to rise he demanded that Trudeau do something even though they both support carbon tax then he whined that no company was willing to build a refinery in BC.
They really are that dumb.
Keep in mind, Vancouver BC is the San Francisco California of Canada, completely off the rails.
It is a lot quieter than a conventional engine. Until they put the siren on because it is too quiet.
The stupid, it literally burns with this one.