The Ottawa Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council last evening hosted a very informative presentation by Jamie Shipley and Thomas Green from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) on lessons learned from CMHC’s […]
South Africa is a net energy importer. It has very limited oil and gas reserves, and has relied on coal and peat for 72% of its primary energy requirements. 67% of its petroleum is imported, […]
The Chang’e-3 mission will land a robotic rover on the moon. The lander’s premier instrument is a wide-angle extreme ultraviolet camera that is intended to monitor the Earth’s plasmasphere, a halo of ionized gases surrounding […]
Nov 28 Beijing launched a carbon trading scheme to regulate CO2 emissions from 490 of its largest power generators and manufacturers. Two other cities Shenzhen and Shanghai have already started their own carbon trading markets. […]
80 % of Canada’s electricity generation comes from non-emitting sources, primarily hydro and nuclear. Globally Canada is third in the total hydroelectric power generation, behind China and Brazil. Ontario is on schedule to eliminate coal […]
I blogged earlier about the sensor web that is taking shape. It involves satellites and ground sensors. I blogged about very inexpensive nanosatellites, typicaly 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm, that are dramatically […]
The “levelized cost”, which is the present value of the total cost of building and operating a generating plant over its financial life, aims at making the costs of different generation technologies comparable. The US […]
Intermittent renewable energy sources like solar PV and wind power are being used more and more worldwide, while the market share of conventional power stations is decreasing. Balancing intermiitent power sources and consumer demand becomes […]