Things I learned lately 29 Mar

• Lava is three times denser than water, twice as dense as concrete. Imagine trying to divert the flow of that at 1000 degrees C. That’s what’s happening in Iceland.
• Texas now has more wind power than any other US state and will soon have the most solar generation, even more than California. Texas. So I wonder why we can’t do this in Alberta? It appears that all of the excuses Alberta came up with have been completely ignored by Texas. They even use massive amounts of battery storage, another thing Alberta said is impractical and too expensive. I guess not hey?
• The average new bachelor's degree graduate in Alberta owes $38,000 in student loans.
• North-central Alberta has a wild boar problem and now there’s a program to trap as many as possible.
• Mirabel Airport, north of Montreal, was intended to occupy 97,000 acres. That’s how much land was expropriated. That’s bigger than the actual city of Montreal. It would have been the world’s largest by area.
• Mirabel Airport was supposed to have 6 terminals and 6 runways. It ended up with 1 terminal and 2 runways, only using 19% of the total available expropriated land.
• What finally was located in Mirabel, the new airport to replace Dorval was preferred to go in Vaudreuil, because it could also serve Ottawa and was already served by highways and rail. Premier Bourassa said no.