Rooftop Solar Panels
Friday, March 4th, 2011In every city and large town are many large privately owned buildings with unused rooftop space. Endura Energy is tapping into that by placing solar panels on these open spaces. In Richmond Hill, Ontario, they have begun installing the first commercial scale rooftop solar panel installation in the province. The 100 kW solar panel system [...]
Carbon Neutral Shipping
Friday, July 9th, 2010Shipping items anywhere has always been a concern for the greenhouse gases they produce in the manufacture of the boxing materials and actual transport of the items. Most consumers choose one of large shipping companies to handle their product shipping needs and now UPS Canada is offering Canadian consumers a new carbon neutral shipping option. [...]
UBC Okanagan Researcher Aims To Turn Waste To Energy
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Cigdem Eskicioglu who is a professor of engineering at UBC Okanagan is aiming to turn various sources of organic waste into methane for renewable energy and as a highly usable organic fertilizer. With so many possible places to glean waste organic matter and to keep it from ending up unused and in local landfills, this [...]
Carbon Capture and Storage Technology
Saturday, February 6th, 2010The practical storage options for carbon capture are suspending the carbon matter in mineral blocks and injection deep into oceanic masses or geological sites. This is reminiscent of burial of nuclear waste material and trash dumping sites, but with more technological add-in and greater cost. But critics of carbon capture and geological mineral carbonate deposits [...]
Air Liquide Supplies Hydrogen Fuel In Time For Winter Olympics
Saturday, January 30th, 2010BC Transit which provides transit service in British Columbia has launched the hydrogen fuel cell in Whistler, British Columbia that will fuel its 20 hydrogen fuel cell buses. This fleet of zero-emission buses will become the world’s largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell buses and will operate as part of the BC Transit bus fleet [...]
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