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My Clean Break column today takes a look at the media’s role in spreading confusion regarding the science of climate change. I decided to write this column after reading Climate Cover-Up by James Hoggan of DesSmogBlog.com, but also after getting a chance to talk to some front-line U.S. ...
Environment
Climate Change
James Dobson
New Mexico
While travelling in New Mexico earlier this month I got a chance to spend the day at Sandia National Laboratories, which kindly made several of its scientists available to talk about the latest developments around solar, wind, battery, water, and fossil fuel technologies. During a walk of the ...
Energy/Transportation
Green Grid
Stirling Energy Systems
New Mexico
Cremation is popular these days for those who have kicked the bucket. In Canada, only 3 per cent of the population got cremated 50 years ago, while today that number has ballooned to more than 55 per cent. But here’s a shocker for the conservation-minded: The amount of natural gas and ...
Environment
Energy Efficiency
Water Conservation
My good friend Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s privacy commissioner , has co-authored a new report that highlights the potential privacy breaches that could result as we move toward a smart grid infrastructure, one that will certainly have dozens of applications layered on top with the ...
Environment
Green Grid
Scrap all road taxes. Scrap all vehicle taxes. Instead, charge people for every kilometre they drive, when the drive, and where they drive. That’s what the Dutch are promising to have in place by 2012. Of course, the idea of road tolling and congestion charging isn’t entirely new. ...
Energy/Transportation
Alternative Transportation
Canada
Singapore
Netherlands
Hi everyone, sorry for being so quiet on the posts. I’m on a fellowship to New Mexico to learn about energy issues here, and time has been short. I’ll be back and posting more on Monday. Cheers.
Other
New Mexico
George Will
Huffington Post
I have to be honest, up until last week I’d heard a lot about the potential of metal-air batteries — i.e. zinc-air, lithium-air, etc… — but really didn’t know much about the batteries, how they were made, why they are be potentially better, and what challenges need ...
Energy/Transportation
Arizona
The University of Western Ontario, led by engineering professor and wind-analysis expert Horia Hangan, has been given the go-ahead to build a $24 million hexagonal wind tunnel, a first-of-its-kind in the world that will allow for the substantially more accurate study of the wind and how it ...
Other
Baylor University
Smart meters and time-of-use pricing are always well-read stories because there’s true division within the general public on whether smart meters are consumer-friendly gadgets that encourage conservation or utility-friendly devices that make it easier to gouge consumers. See my story in ...
Environment
Water Conservation
Green Grid
George Will
I don’t typically give much weight to surveys, particularly ones that have been paid for by private interests, but a new national (Canadian) survey — a joint effort by Bosch Home Appliances and Leger Marketing — caught my attention. It addresses the question of whether people ...
Environment
Green Grid
George Will
Ontario’s decision to require local labour and gear for 40 to 5o per cent of a solar project’s content has ruffled some feathers in Europe . The province’s government created the Made-in-Ontario rules in parallel with the design of its feed-in tariff program for renewables, ...
