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Waste-to-power: the white whale of baseload

October 22, 2010, 1:34 pm

Somebody at a big PR outfit recently contacted me about one of their clients, a waste management firm. They wanted me to know that their client had just launched a waste-to-power system capable of...

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Plutonium stockpiles: reorganize and recycle, or Anarchy in the UK?

February 13, 2011, 9:34 am

Get ready for a righteous fight over plutonium in the UK. The World Nuclear News reports that the UK government is thinking seriously about recycling the country’s civilian plutonium for electric power...

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Waste to power: beautiful concept, and demonstrably viable

May 19, 2011, 6:24 am

I recently visited a waste-to-power project in my home town, Ottawa Ontario. This is the Carp Road landfill gas project. The Carp Road landfill is a private facility, run by Waste Management Inc., a...

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Clean, cheap industrial heat coming soon: Next Generation Nuclear Plant...

August 16, 2011, 9:35 am

I am always glad when I hear of research and development dollars going to deserving projects led by deserving researchers. Today (August 16) I read a news release from the University of...

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Innovation, water, and energy: semi-conductors cannot defeat physics

April 22, 2012, 7:50 am

I was at a “maker’s lab” the other day, where inventors experimented with computer numerically controlled (CNC) designs of motors, and motored systems like three-dimensional printers. It was...

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The Nanticoke Energy Centre: Ontario’s hub of clean electricity, motor...

November 6, 2012, 11:32 am

Ontario is set to mothball a hugely valuable asset, in the form of eight perfectly operational coal-fired generating units. With a combined capacity of 4,000 megawatts, the Nanticoke generating plant...

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U.S. used nuclear fuel: the elephant is a mouse, is the solution to America’s...

January 29, 2013, 12:52 pm

Listening to American politicians talk about energy security and clean energy is sometimes like listening to Captain Queeg testifying at the court martial: at first it sounds congruous, coherent, and...

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Is biomass-fired power generation carbon-neutral?

April 11, 2013, 1:22 pm

Tables 1 and 2 in the left-hand sidebar of this blog give hourly and so-far-daily snapshots of the energy sources that power Ontario’s electricity grid. As you can see, there are five fuel types: coal,...

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