Why Do Canadians Plug Their Cars Into the Wall?

Why Do Canadians Plug Their Cars Into the Wall? How the block heater really started, what minus forty does to an engine, and what a province of plugged-in cars does to the power grid. Told from the point of view of a licensed power engineer, with every number sourced below. New stories about the people who kept the fire burning, twice a week. Subscribe so the next one finds you: https://www.youtube.com/@firekeepersc... 0:00 A parking lot at minus 38 1:00 Three things the cold breaks 2:09 Starting a car before the cord 3:20 The man who built it 4:49 The cold room study 6:19 What the heat is really for 7:01 The first hour does the work 7:48 Why not all night? 8:26 What the grid sees 9:13 From the control room 10:18 Most people do not plug in 10:48 Will it start? All research and sources are linked below. RESEARCH & SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...) https://web.archive.org/web/201507212... https://news.prairiepublic.org/show/d... https://library.csbe-scgab.ca/docs/jo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J300 https://wiki.anton-paar.com/en/sae-vi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity https://batteryuniversity.com/article... https://www.cbc.ca/1.4930104 https://natural-resources.canada.ca/s... https://patents.google.com/patent/US2... http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/... https://web.archive.org/web/2012/http... https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/ency... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_h... https://patents.google.com/patent/US1... https://www.parks.canada.ca/culture/d... https://api.weather.gc.ca/collections... https://src.sk.ca/resources/crs-saska... https://web.archive.org/web/201109271... https://globalnews.ca/news/10235104/a... https://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/... https://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/... https://globalnews.ca/news/10222866/a... https://www.aeso.ca/assets/Annual-Mar... https://globalnews.ca/news/9315326/gr... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/... https://amp.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.5002984 https://www.aeso.ca/assets/linkfiles/... http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/... https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/553f5... https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.4930104 https://www.railwayage.com/?p=11075 https://mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/siers_t... https://globalnews.ca/news/182140/sas... https://www.alberta.ca/aea/cap/2024/0... https://www.albertamsa.ca/assets/Docu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_tr... https://bismarcktribune.com/news/colu... https://cahf.ca/thomas-william-siers/ This video uses AI-generated illustrations and an AI-generated voice. The script is researched and written with AI assistance, and every number is checked against the sources listed above.