Recently, HRM's environmental strategy took a big step forward when it received funding from the Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Environment Canada to launch a community-energy system on the peninsula. The $47-million system will have a co-generation plant (co-generation is 45 percent more efficient than traditional single-cycle power stations) that produces electricity using clean natural gas instead of traditional bunker coal oil. The system, which will provide steam and hot water to Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, and four Halifax hospitals, should be running by 2008 and will reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by more than 125,000 tonnes. "This will be the most efficient district energy system in Canada," says Cathie O'Toole, HRM's manager of environmental per...
... it into electricity to power up to 800 homes; and HRM's transit system, which is using 1,550,00...HRM also is encouraging wind-energy development through its Wind Generation Mas...
Having said that, I do want to stress there are many benefits of having healthy vegetation of all kinds on one's property. Trees provide beauty and many functional purposes around our homes. Shade and wind protection are very obvious benefits. Well-placed trees can save energy costs associated with air-conditioning and heating. Deciduous shade trees on the south and west sides of the home provide cooling through shade during the heat of summer. Coniferous evergreen trees on the northwest and north sides of the homes in our area can reduce the force of cold winds, making the house more comfortable in the winter, thereby lowering heating costs. Urban trees and shrubs provide places for birds, small mammals and desirable insects such as bees, butterflies, dragonflies and others, with food ...
... Originally published in Blakes Bulletin on Energy/CleanTech, March 2011,. There have been a number... provincial laws governing the location of wind turbines; in another case landowners are asking t...: a combined output that could power 200,000 homes for a year. With these new FIT contracts, the FIT ...
A fairly conventional wind-powered turbine generates electricity. But what makes a MAR unique is the combination of a soft, helium-filled outer shell (think Zeppelins) and the Magnus effect in which a spinning sphere will generate lift. Helium provides vertical lift and the Magnus lift keeps the generator from "leaning" or lowering as wind speeds rise. Thanks to their unique design and lofty location, MARs also claim low noise and negligible hazard to birds. But perhaps it's too unique for suburban bylaws. Magenn's chief executive officer Mac Brown sees opportunities for off-grid rural homes and in developing countries. Because they're portable and quickly installed, they can be used wherever emergency power is required. Powerbase Automation in Carleton Place is going gangbusters suppl...
... generators designed to capture the wind energy 180 to 300 metres above the ground. A fairly conve...
... building code which establishes energy-efficient construction methods. * Educate local tr...Goals--turning problems into solutions * Homes should be designed to reflect local culture. * Con... derived from renewable energy, e.g., wind, small hydro. * R-2000 or similar standard for new...
That is a small piece of a larger discussion on the dangers firefighters meet when called to newer homes. Cheaper manufactured wooden materials have replaced solid wood and timbers. Roof trusses are lighter, floor joists are stronger but both are less resilient to fire. Energy-efficient homes keep the wind out but allow fire to smolder. Synthetic materials and plastics are ubiquitous in today's home. All of these elements, safe and cost-effective for homeowners, present extraordinary dangers to those who go in when most rush out -- roofs collapse quickly and without warning, fires burn hidden between floors and can go hot fast or burst into an inferno when a widow is broken. Chemicals released by fires consuming fabrics and plastics make for a toxic cocktail.
That (wind park) would enable us to marry those monies with INAC funding for maybe capital projects or administration," said [Rick Gamble]. "If the amount of power we sell is enough that it garners a fair amount of money for us, it will mean we can do additional things that we can't do now. Maybe housing, maybe roads or maybe just administration whatever the case may be, but certainly it is much needed revenue that we would be able to get and hopefully work with in the future, "A lot of the farmers... are being compensated by SkyPower for the loss of revenue for the amount of area that they are going to take so there is no problem there," said Gamble. "It's always been the same thing for our First Nations people, our access to the land, respecting mother earth, respecting what you get...
... project will hopefully generate "green" energy for more than 30,000 homes annually. This new deve...
...'s continuing support for the renewable energy industry, the FIT Program and community power in O..., on average, and by approximately 15% for wind. Fuel. Project Size Tranche. Original F... to power approximately 1.2 million homes. To date, the FIT Program is estimated to have cre...
... exposure to mortgage lending risks, by winding back CMHC's role in the provision of mortgage insu... intended to help low-income families to buy homes. (1) And, in each case, the new agencies became si... default insurance for borrowers who pursue energy conservation at home. Using the price of mortgage ...
IS IT JUST ME or has energy replaced child pop star Justin Bieber as this year..., signs on the side of the road about wind farms, newspaper headlines describing yet another ... clean drinking water from its source to homes, businesses and farms in Ontario, requires the sam...
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