Nuclear Sticker Shock: “It’s just ridiculously expensive.”
Whether you think nuclear power is a good or bad idea, one thing is certain, it’s expensive. Very expensive. And that’s before the almost inevitable cost overruns… This is what the Canadian province of Ontario seems to have realized. It’s canceling plans for 2 new reactors because of sticker shock and out of “responsibility to Ontario taxpayers”. And while everybody’s talking about money, what I’m really wondering about is: What is Ontario’s plan to clean up its power grid?…

A Calgary student-led team building a solar-powered home for a high-profile international competition has received major backing from ENMAX Corporation. ENMAX Corporation is joining Team Alberta’s project as title sponsor of the custom-built solar home, newly named the “ENMAX SolAbode.” More…

The Business Delegation to Germany on October 6 to 11, 2009, organized by the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Montreal and the German American Chamber Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest will bring North American wind energy companies to the north of Germany for visits and individual meetings at manufacturers and wind energy sites. This program aims at assisting you in developing new business contacts and initiating potential business activities in the wind energy sector between North America and Germany. More…

JPMorgan Securities expects the global hybrid market to expand by 23 times to more than 11 million vehicles in 2020, accounting for 13 per cent of total sales.  (Go to article in Trading Markets, 26.05.09)
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The project jointly developed by the UNB researchers, Irving Oil and the New Brunswick provincial government will explore feasibility of storing carbon dioxide in former oil and natural gas deposits. The project will begin [...]

Pioneer Project becomes one of the finalists for assistance under Alberta’s $2-billion carbon capture and storage fund.  TransAlta’s project would take part of the flue gas from a portion of one of the two Keephills [...]

Honda releases its FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel-cell car, for testing.  Honda’s design allows the home filling station to hook up to a residential natural gas line and produce hydrogen for a fuel-cell car.  It would also heat water and produce electricity for the house. Sounds intriguing, though Honda won’t say when the unit will [...]

Hydro-Quebec joins Ford Motor’s North American demonstration-and-research program on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.  The company will test one Ford Escape SUV plug-in hybrid.  (Go to article in the Financial Post, 26.06.09)
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According to American Electric Power Co Inc., carbon capture and storage technology that will capture carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and store them underground will be ready by 2015 and could be in wide [...]

Swiss adventurer unveils a prototype of the solar-powered plane.  The aeroplane incorporates composite materials to keep it extremely light and uses super-efficient solar cells, batteries, motors and propellers to get it through the dark hours.  [...]