More corrupt worthless BS garbage from CIA stooge, while still supporting all US warmongering and “Civilziational (Zio)” supremacism of though shalt kill and steal from those declared inferior. Current US evil against Iran is lasting damage on global economy, and will get worse, even though Canada is better insulated than rest of world.

Genuine path to Canadian prosperity is close partnership with China to make clean energy prices dirt cheap in Canada. Starting with Toronto, driving OPG out of business so that nuclear reactors can be bought out cheap, and pressuring Toronto Hydro with municiplaization seizure is path to high employment and cheap energy. https://lemmy.ca/post/63513461

With 6c/kwh (CAD) electricity prices, and Hydrogen economy, Toronto can be fully clean powered within 10 years. Cloning Chinese tech stacks here is still massive support for Canadian industry. FYI, OPG unsubsidized nuclear power is over 20c/kwh starting next year, and if Pickering refurbishment approved will go up to 35c/kwh. Corrupt Ontario is planning to subsidize these costs through debt financing, but only acceptable subsidy is a cash credit. Say, covering all of Toronto Hydro’s fixed monthly fees (almost $50/month)

To transition Toronto to a fully solar/hydrogen autonomous city in 10 years—while leveraging municipal control to “hollow out” Toronto Hydro and OPG—requires a mobilization of equipment and capital equivalent to a wartime industrial effort.

Based on your target of 37 TWh/year for full autonomy (including heat and EVs), here is the scale of the 10-year “Toronto Sprint.”

1. Total Capacity Requirements

To provide 37 TWh/year with the seasonal storage buffer, the city requires:

• Solar Capacity: ~32,000 MW (32 GW). This accounts for the 24% efficiency, 60° arches, and the storage round-trip losses (electrolysis/FC efficiency).
• Electrolysis Capacity: ~5,250 MW. Based on the 35MW “cluster” model, you would need roughly 150 separate 35MW plants distributed across the city’s industrial zones and substations.
• Fuel Cell (FC) Capacity: ~10,800 MW. (Scaled at the 72MW-FC-to-35MW-Electrolyzer ratio). This provides the “O2-boosted” winter peak required to replace nuclear and gas heating entirely.

2. The 10-Year “Crane Sprint”

Toronto has roughly 550,000 ground-oriented dwellings (detached, semis, and townhomes) that need the solar-arch “Standard Node” conversion.

• Total Installations: 55,000 homes per year (for 10 years).
• Work Days: ~250 per year (excluding Sundays and extreme weather).
• Daily Target: 220 homes per day across the city.
• The “Cell” Unit: One crane crew (2 cranes, 2 cherry-pickers) performing 4 “Neighborhood Sprints” per day.
• Required Fleet: 55 Crane Crews operating simultaneously every day for a decade.
  • 110 Mobile All-Terrain Cranes (45m-60m reach).
  • 110 High-Reach Cherry Pickers.

3. Strategic “Bankrupting” of OPG/Hydro

Your plan to use the 6¢/kWh cash-out and accommodative permitting creates a “Death Spiral” for the legacy utilities:

• Year 1-3 (The Hollowing): Extreme permitting allows 10% of the city to convert. Toronto Hydro loses its most profitable customers but remains legally obligated to maintain the wires.
• Year 4-7 (The Margin Squeeze): As 40% of the city moves to “Net Credit” status, Toronto Hydro’s fixed-cost burden per remaining customer skyrockets. OPG’s 20¢/kWh nuclear power has no buyers in the summer.
• Year 8-10 (The Firesale): With OPG unable to service the debt on its multi-billion dollar refurbishments, the City “rescues” the assets (Transmission lines and Nuclear sites) for pennies on the dollar to use as the backbone for the H2-hub network.

4. H2 Plant Rollout Schedule

• Year 1: “Minimum Summer Demand” reached. First 35MW Electrolyzer added in March at the Port Lands or a Scarborough industrial site.
• Year 1 (Nov): First 72MW FC Plant commissioned using the summer H2 stockpile.
• Year 2-10: Add 15–18 H2 clusters per year to keep pace with the crane crews.

The “Unfair Advantage”

By forcing private property acceptance for cranes and eliminating the $44,000+ connection fees usually charged by Toronto Hydro, you remove the “friction” that stops traditional solar. The 3.7-year payback makes the transition an unstoppable viral economic event.

Several have excellent music. If “emminem style” copied for free, would still welcome emminem doing a live performance without paying Iran for “song credit” would still be a big hit.

It’s minecraft level graphics instead of crysis level. Easier as bigger texture blocks than pixel level shading.

A missing bee could have polinated, what can only be the tortilla on the right side, if shredded meat exists on this plate. Surely, a bee could… nvm that rotten lump could not have been saved.

Usually happens coincidentally to them being in charge. Pray you can offer value to them, is normal advice (given by the oligarchy).

The only safe supply ports would be in Pakistan or (much further away) India. It’s likely Pakistan doesn’t want to be seen helping US fleet. India has been receiving Iranian oil during conflict, and would like to keep it that way in addition to it being a long resupply route.

serving aboard the USS Tripoli, USA Today reported. The image showed a lunch tray that was largely empty with only a small portion of shredded meat and a folded tortilla.

USS Tripoli was one of the last ships to leave for theater. While OP image is not the meal described, I was very worried about which side could the tortilla.

Thank you. That ownership document is new to me, but confusing. City would be sole owner as a result of previous bankruptcy/bail out. Seems as though the city is adding $300m into the company (needed for infrastructure), while getting $350m in dividends over next 9 years (which could have paid for that infrastructure instead?). Toronto Hydro has highest monthly fixed fee in the world, managing to not be profitable is proof of corruption on its face. Ownership of the piggy bank inside Toronto Hydro without full operational control ensures that nothing ever gets deposited into the piggy bank.

The $300/home takeover, on threats of right of way fee increases could force Toronto Hydro to cease operations, as well as have a legal liability to remove unmaintained power infrastructure. $300 was proposed as fair accounting salvage value, but a unionized army of crackheads with duty to not just smash and grab has higher overhead than crack trade.

In a way, a fake Toronto ownership scam could expropriate all Toronto Hydro assets at 0 cost because “the shell company is suing its only shareholder” is the remedy.

There are also some regulatory asks from city of Toronto. No tariffs on Chinese components, and permission to build solar archways on properties (under 4 floors high)

Green H2 and ammonia are produced from summer surplus solar on Toronto properties/homes. Crane installed arches are made to go over homes, with anchors at property lines, without working on roofs. Fuel cells provide winter electricity supplement to feed heat pumps. While indoor farming is a main profit center, it uses space that would require setback to other properties for temporary ammonia storage. 80mw facilities use a lot less area (per mw) than 20mw ones, but food production supported by cheap electricity, free heat, are game changers for indoor agriculture, and using more acres near ammonia/FC plants pay for themselves even at high Toronto land values.

Internal Report: Financial Architecture and Profit Genesis of the Community Hub

Subject: Operational Profitability and Dividend Sustainability for 20MW Community Microhubs

1. The Management & Governance Model

To ensure high-efficiency execution, each 20MW Hub operates as a semi-autonomous business unit under a professional management structure.

• The Hub Coordinator ($500k): Responsible for energy arbitrage, H2/Ammonia logistics, municipal relations, and secession legal defense.
• The Agricultural Director ($500k): Manages the 8-story vertical stack, fish health, crop rotation, and premium branding/sales.
• Performance Incentive: The $1M management pool is the primary OPEX line for leadership. High performance is rewarded through a share of the “Agricultural Director” pool, ensuring the food quality and energy uptime are prioritized.

2. Profit Centers: Annual Revenue Breakdown (20MW Baseline)

The Hub’s profitability is derived from three primary streams: Industrial Chemicals, Premium Food, and Energy Arbitrage.

3. Dividend Calculation & Distribution

The “Surplus” is the amount remaining after all management fees, land leases, and infrastructure maintenance are paid.

• Gross Profit: $29.2M
• Land Lease (10%): ($3.2M)
• Management Pool: ($1.0M)
• Grid Maintenance: ($3.0M)
• Total Available for Dividend: $22,000,000

Distribution (per 10,000 home community):

• The “Money Machine”: $200/kW of installed solar. A 15kW home receives $3,000 annually.
• The Prosumer Incentive: This dividend is paid only to those who contribute solar capacity or battery storage to the microgrid, forcing 100% community adoption.

4. Option: The “Social Dividend” (Subsidized Quality of Life)

If the community votes to prioritize Affordability over Cash Dividends, the Hub can pivot its pricing model. This reduces the cash payout but drastically lowers the local cost of living.

• Impact: By cutting the dividend in half, the Hub can provide approximately $11M worth of food subsidies to the neighborhood.
• The Result: The community becomes a “Tourists/Expat Magnet” not because people are rich, but because “The world’s best food and water cost almost nothing for residents.”

5. Capital Resilience (The “Secession” Hedge)

Unlike Toronto Hydro, which must borrow for every transformer, the Hub’s CAPEX is funded by its own cash flow.

• Maintenance Fund: $3M per year is set aside for the “Asshole Discount” grid. This pays for the eventual replacement of old AC wires with modern, higher-capacity aluminum or DC lines without needing new debt.
• Self-Funding: With a 20-year outlook, the Hub generates enough surplus to replace its entire 20MW electrolyzer and fuel cell stack every 7 years, ensuring the technology is always state-of-the-art.

Summary for Council

The Hub is not a charity; it is a high-margin industrial engine that uses Toronto’s expensive land to produce high-value goods. By using 4¢/kWh energy and free fish-poop fertilizer, the Hub operates at margins that no “extortionist” utility or global food importer can match.

Which dividend strategy should the pilot project implement: Maximum Cash to drive solar adoption, or Social Food Subsidies to drive community approval?

OPG will charge 20.7c/kwh in 2027 before Toronto Hydro adds its own extortion layer. This is result of Darlington refurbishment already completed. Pickering refurbishment will cost double. Ontario government does plan to hide this cost increase with debt financed subsidies, but this is a shithole debt spiral that must be escaped.

Would normally be prelude to broader deal, but Iran has a history of being gullible on promises made to it.

6 inches forward, 5 inches back. I lost an angry inch.

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We could have a referendum on how important it is to taxpayers to protect Trump from missiles. Maybe a simultaneous one for shooting one at him.

He’s boasting/encouraging world to come outbid US refineries for oil exports.

Actual US military directions/rules are more sensible than initial tweet. But after they posted, Trump has said that any boat he doesn’t like will be treated like Carribean fishing vessels. Insurance needs policy to last 7 or more days, and insurance currently requires paying Iran a toll (coordinated by insurance company, for shipper convenience). There is a big difference between ordering or seizing a ship temporarily and blowing it up. Military direction is just that ships will be required permission or denied.

French: Was tortured.

It kills Iran’s ability to extract tolls from ships that want to get past.

I think the opposite. If ships are scared to trade with Iran, then toll costs go up on other shipping, to cover a higher Iran reparations bill. US military made much milder threat than Trump, which doesn’t include hunting down every ship that has passed SoH so far, or that may get Iran’s permission to pass now.