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Enerkem Alberta Biofuels, a subsidiary of Montreal-based Enerkem Inc., is receiving $3.5 million from the Government of Canada through the Western 
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Last week DeSmog Canada published a video about the Site C dam on Facebook that — after generating nearly 120,000 views in 36 hours — was suddenly removed due to a complaint lodged by True North Entertainment, a B.C. government contractor. The video, Cutting Through the Spin on the Site C Dam, featured an interview with Harry Swain, chair of the provincial-federal panel responsible for reviewing the controversial hydro dam. Swain, a high-profile critic of Site C, explained why he thinks it’s a mistake to build the dam and how the B.C. government has changed its story over the years to justify the $9-billion project, the most expensive public infrastructure project in the province’s history. The five-minute video featured footage almost exclusively filmed by DeSmog Canada but also included some small selections of b-roll footage from the Province of B.C.’s YouTube page.
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A shift is under way that will lead to widespread adoption of EVs in the next decade.
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The province will spend $645 million over five years on a new energy efficiency program to help
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Concentrating solar power is poised on the cusp of a major advance as the goal of integrating grid-scale thermal energy storage appears within reach. Already able to produce utility-scale amounts of renewable electricity cost-effectively, scientists and engineers have been focusing on developing new, more efficient and cheaper thermal energy storage systems and integrating them into CSP plants. That goal now appears within reach... Via Lauren Moss
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Concentrating solar power is poised on the cusp of a major advance as the goal of integrating grid-scale thermal energy storage appears within reach.
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Nine out of ten large corporations commissioned energy efficient technologies, with 14 percent of them utilizing the advantages of high efficiency lighting such as LED lamps, reports Leapfrog Lighting News & Insights. Via Chris Vilcsak
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High Efficiency Lighting the Most Utilized #Energy Saving Technology #sustainability
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As you probably know, from sucking down cans of Coke and masticating on candy, sugar -- glucose, fructose, sucrose, dextrose -- is an excellent source of energy. There is a reason why almost every living cell on Earth generates its energy (ATP) from glucose. Now, researchers at Virginia Tech have successfully created a sugar-powered fuel cell that has an energy density of 596 amp-hours per kilo -- or
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Sugar-powered biobattery has 10 times the #energy storage of lithium: via @extremetech
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#Graphene Gel: The Future of #Energy #Storage? #sustainability
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January 30, 2014 1:49 PM
#Graphene Gel: The Future of #Energy #Storage?
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Two scientists have a plan to power 25 percent of the world with solar in just over a decade. Here's how it just might happen. Our dark and dirty world is on carbon overload, yet we're pumping the stuff out as if we were still in those heady oblivious days of the early industrial revolution. Coal, oil, and gas still juice our frantically expanding civilization. Meanwhile, the world's scientists are officially 95 percent certainthat our heavy carbon diet is the root cause of the fast-rising temperatures of recent decades, and that we're on track to get a lot warmer still. Via Green technology
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The focus of the utopian research coalition would be to precipitate the two major scientific breakthroughs that both researchers see as holding the key to universal solar power: battery storage and better electrical conductors: "The first is to make solar power available on a 24-hour basis, when the sun shines only part of the day and can be obscured by cloud. This requires a major breakthrough in the storage of electricity."The second is to reduce the cost of transmitting electricity from areas of high luminosity and low land value to the major population centres of the world."
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Alberta’s first auction to inject more green power into the province’s grid has entered the final phase, but electricity players from around the world are already preparing for future bids.
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As part of Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan, the provincial government is launching two small-scale pilot programs for First Nations and Metis communities that invest in local renewable projects that create jobs, reduce emissions and lower utility costs.
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"The government can start putting people back to work without having to wait for the price of oil to
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Right now I'm on a Metro North train heading the NYC. I’ve been invited to sit on an advisory council at the UN on building a sustainable energy future.I’ll let you know how the meeting goes, after I take a few selfies to immortalize the experience in case I'm not invited back.
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Our partners at Current Electric Co. used Precision-Paragon LED lighting fixtures to perform an energy-efficient lighting retrofit in the parking garage at t... Via Chris Vilcsak
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#Energy-Efficient Lighting Retrofit at the Shops at Grand Avenue Parking Garage #sustainability
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March 26, 2014 6:30 PM
Anywhere the lights are on 24/7, lighting retrofits make sense... and parking garages are a perfect example.
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Through the EcoAdSM program, Xcel Energy provided funding to support the installation of 183 high-efficiency lighting fixtures at the Phyllis Wheatley Commun... Via Chris Vilcsak
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EcoAd Program Funding #Energy Efficient Lighting at Phyllis Wheatley Community Center #sustainability
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Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. For humans, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has ecological, economic, political and cultural dimensions.
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.@NeilYoung's commentary on the #Alberta #oilsands was not only one-sided, but it was unfair. A balanced discussion must be had to understand the issues from both sides
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Brandon Baker With more than $750 billion of holdings in its sovereign wealth fund, Norway is on the brink of potentially making renewable energy investments around the world. Erna Solberg, who will be named Norway’s second female prime minister, has already heard proposals from her government to use sovereign wealth fund money to invest in sustainable companies and projects in developing countries, Climate News Network reported today. Leader of the conservative party, Solberg won the election in September. To read the full article, click on the title.
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Brandon Baker With more than $750 billion of holdings in its sovereign wealth fund, Norway is on the brink of potentially making renewable energy investments around the world.
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October 20, 2013 6:11 AM
An example to conscient and wealthy govenments...
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The world's largest bid to harness the power of nuclear fusion has entered a "critical" phase at Cadarache in the south of France.
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FUSION ENERGY WORKSHOPS Only a few seats left in Edmonton and Calgary https://abctech.ca/uploads/files/Fusion%20Energy%202013/Agenda%20for%20Fusion%20Workshops.pdf
Canada is the only developed nation without a fusion energy research program. Yet fusion as an emerging energy source continues to attract significant public and private interest on a global scale the The Alberta Council of Technologies is assessing the status of major fusion energy research and its commercial implications for Alberta with support from Alberta Energy and Stantec, the City of Edmonton and the University of Alberta. The study is engaging teams visiting research sites in Europe, Asia and North America. Preliminary results will be available this fall for workshops in Calgary and Edmonton in October and a follow-on international forum to be held in Edmonton in late November. The Forum is to help formulate the role Alberta and Canada may play in helping advance the development and commercialization of the emerging technology. In preparation for the Forum the Alberta Council of Technologies is hosting workshops in ... Calgary, Friday October 25th at Alberta Innovates - Map Edmonton, Saturday October 26th at Alberta innovates - Map The workshops will be of interest for companies and research organizations that have an interest in advanced research and the commercial applications of fusion energy in a host of fields from lasers and photonics, to engineering and construction, analytics and materials science. The workshops will provide highlights of the study, identify Alberta's research and corporate interests, and discuss how to keep companies and research associates in Alberta up-to-date on the commercial status of the research for the benefit of Alberta and Canada. This email is to solicit the names and contacts for organizations that are interested in receiving an invitation to the workshop in either Calgary or Edmonton. The workshop rationale and agenda now follows: FOR THE WORKSHOP AGENDA CLICK HERE Please reply or contact either of us with your questions and the basis for your expression of interest to attend either the workshop at AITF's facilities n Calgary or the one in Edmonton. There is no charge for the half-day workshop and a lite lunch will be served. Thank you,
Perry Kinkaide and Allan Offenberger Co-Chairs - Alberta/Canada Fusion Energy Alliance TF 1-866-241-7535 or Local 780-990-5874 RELATED BACKGROUND http://iowapublicradio.org/post/nuclear-fusion-research-enters-critical-phase-france http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Nuclear-Fusion-Power/#.UhbGhz_8Stw
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