Title: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:24:11 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:24:11 PM
It may sound too good to be true, but in a jointly-published study by Harvard University researchers and the Squamish, B.C.-based company Carbon Engineering, researchers claim that a method called direct air capture can do exactly that. However, Carbon Engineering claims to be able to get the job done at a third of the cost of competitors working on similar technology.
"Yes, we're absolutely confident," Steve Oldham, of Carbon Engineering, told Global News reporter Ted Chernecki. "I don't just believe it, I know it. This is based upon an existing facility. This is not a PowerPoint calculation. It's a real facility. We've done real testing. We're using real equipment from real suppliers that we've talked to," Oldham added.
The business model works by adding hydrogen to the captured CO2 to produce a liquid fuel, which is already being produced in small quantities.
"We're going to make a completely clean gas. That gasoline or diesel of jet fuel will work with any existing vehicle," Oldham said. He added that this method not only solves the problem of converting the transportation industry to clean fuels, but it does so using the cars, buses, jets, etc., that are already on the road.
"[The fuel is] drop-in compatible. You can fill up that vehicle, and now that vehicle is carbon neutral, so that solves the problem of de-carbonizing the transportation sector, but no change. No change to cars, no change to gas stations," Oldham said.
At least seven companies around the world are working on similar technologies, including the Swiss-based Climeworks, who has already built a commercial-scale plant. However, none of Carbon Engineering's competitors are able to deploy this technology at the same low price point of between US$94 and US$232.
In comparison, it costs Climeworks approximately US$600 a tonne to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Another estimate for the process, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies, estimated the cost to be more than US$1,000.
The reason Carbon Engineering is able to capture CO2 from the air at such a low cost, it claims, is because of the company's use of technology and components that are well understood and commercially available. Oldham told Global News that an example of this can be found in the front end of the system – the component that actually pulls the CO2 out of the air – which uses membranes from the air cooler industry, often found in water coolers.
"Until now, research suggested it would cost US$600 per ton to remove CO2 from the atmosphere using DAC technology, making it too expensive to be a feasible solution to removing legacy carbon at scale. At CE, we've been working on direct air capture since 2009, running our pilot plant since 2015, and we now have the data and engineering to prove that DAC can achieve costs below US$100 per ton. No prior research in the peer-reviewed literature provides a design and engineering cost for a complete DAC system– and this paper fills that gap," said Harvard applied physics professor and lead author on the study, David Keith.
Carbon Engineering currently pulls about one tonne of carbon a day from the air and produces two barrels of fuel. Oldham says that since its components are "off the rack," it should be easy to scale up.
As a feature of the Paris climate agreements, leaders from around the world agreed to try to keep global warming within a two-degree limit, though fears have been raised that climate emissions won't be cut fast enough.
One of the great benefits of making fuel from air is energy independence, Oldham told CKNW's Jon McComb Show.
I think it's a fantastic opportunity. It provides fuel independence. We only need water, and sunlight and air to produce fuel. And that means you can locate your fuel plant wherever you have those three things – lots of places," he said.
Carbon Engineering's plan isn't foolproof though. Carbon Engineering's fuel costs about 25 per cent more than gasoline made from oil. Oldham said work is being done to reduce that.
Climate change is becoming like cancer research. A never ending sink hole for our money, but no cure is really wanted.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:37:14 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:37:14 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:42:28 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:42:28 PM
And it allows to keep the vehicles we have on the road.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:49:47 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 07:49:47 PM
Very interesting Seoul...Quote from: "Fashionista"
And it allows to keep the vehicles we have on the road.
And the beauty of it is they won't require subsidies to pay for it. They make their money from selling gasoline, and diesel.
Rather than demonizing C02. find a commercial use for it.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Bricktop on June 24, 2019, 08:08:43 PM
Post by: Bricktop on June 24, 2019, 08:08:43 PM
The Greens won't buy it.
It doesn't do anything to destroy capitalism.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 08:20:02 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 08:20:02 PM
This has no chance.Quote from: "Bricktop"
The Greens won't buy it.
It doesn't do anything to destroy capitalism.
That is the problem. Practical people want practical solutions. Greenies are reds and they have an agenda.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 08:20:54 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 08:20:54 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Bricktop on June 24, 2019, 09:10:41 PM
Post by: Bricktop on June 24, 2019, 09:10:41 PM
"Ah, this one has pigment taken from a Rolls Royce, sir".
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 09:14:21 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2019, 09:14:21 PM
While it sounds like the makings of science fiction, one Canadian startup believes it's figured out a way to suck carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into fuel for cars, trucks, buses, etc. – and to top it off, it's all cost-effective.Quote from: "seoulbro"
It may sound too good to be true, but in a jointly-published study by Harvard University researchers and the Squamish, B.C.-based company Carbon Engineering, researchers claim that a method called direct air capture can do exactly that. However, Carbon Engineering claims to be able to get the job done at a third of the cost of competitors working on similar technology.
"Yes, we're absolutely confident," Steve Oldham, of Carbon Engineering, told Global News reporter Ted Chernecki. "I don't just believe it, I know it. This is based upon an existing facility. This is not a PowerPoint calculation. It's a real facility. We've done real testing. We're using real equipment from real suppliers that we've talked to," Oldham added.
The business model works by adding hydrogen to the captured CO2 to produce a liquid fuel, which is already being produced in small quantities.
"We're going to make a completely clean gas. That gasoline or diesel of jet fuel will work with any existing vehicle," Oldham said. He added that this method not only solves the problem of converting the transportation industry to clean fuels, but it does so using the cars, buses, jets, etc., that are already on the road.
"[The fuel is] drop-in compatible. You can fill up that vehicle, and now that vehicle is carbon neutral, so that solves the problem of de-carbonizing the transportation sector, but no change. No change to cars, no change to gas stations," Oldham said.
At least seven companies around the world are working on similar technologies, including the Swiss-based Climeworks, who has already built a commercial-scale plant. However, none of Carbon Engineering's competitors are able to deploy this technology at the same low price point of between US$94 and US$232.
In comparison, it costs Climeworks approximately US$600 a tonne to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Another estimate for the process, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies, estimated the cost to be more than US$1,000.
The reason Carbon Engineering is able to capture CO2 from the air at such a low cost, it claims, is because of the company's use of technology and components that are well understood and commercially available. Oldham told Global News that an example of this can be found in the front end of the system – the component that actually pulls the CO2 out of the air – which uses membranes from the air cooler industry, often found in water coolers.
"Until now, research suggested it would cost US$600 per ton to remove CO2 from the atmosphere using DAC technology, making it too expensive to be a feasible solution to removing legacy carbon at scale. At CE, we've been working on direct air capture since 2009, running our pilot plant since 2015, and we now have the data and engineering to prove that DAC can achieve costs below US$100 per ton. No prior research in the peer-reviewed literature provides a design and engineering cost for a complete DAC system– and this paper fills that gap," said Harvard applied physics professor and lead author on the study, David Keith.
Carbon Engineering currently pulls about one tonne of carbon a day from the air and produces two barrels of fuel. Oldham says that since its components are "off the rack," it should be easy to scale up.
As a feature of the Paris climate agreements, leaders from around the world agreed to try to keep global warming within a two-degree limit, though fears have been raised that climate emissions won't be cut fast enough.
One of the great benefits of making fuel from air is energy independence, Oldham told CKNW's Jon McComb Show.
I think it's a fantastic opportunity. It provides fuel independence. We only need water, and sunlight and air to produce fuel. And that means you can locate your fuel plant wherever you have those three things – lots of places," he said.
Carbon Engineering's plan isn't foolproof though. Carbon Engineering's fuel costs about 25 per cent more than gasoline made from oil. Oldham said work is being done to reduce that.https://globalnews.ca/news/4264512/climate-crisis-suck-co2-out-of-sky/
Climate change is becoming like cancer research. A never ending sink hole for our money, but no cure is really wanted.
CNRL, a Canadian oil company was behind this. Don't tell the alarmists that.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 06:12:45 AM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 06:12:45 AM
While it sounds like the makings of science fiction, one Canadian startup believes it's figured out a way to suck carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into fuel for cars, trucks, buses, etc. – and to top it off, it's all cost-effective.Quote from: "seoulbro"
It may sound too good to be true, but in a jointly-published study by Harvard University researchers and the Squamish, B.C.-based company Carbon Engineering, researchers claim that a method called direct air capture can do exactly that. However, Carbon Engineering claims to be able to get the job done at a third of the cost of competitors working on similar technology.
"Yes, we're absolutely confident," Steve Oldham, of Carbon Engineering, told Global News reporter Ted Chernecki. "I don't just believe it, I know it. This is based upon an existing facility. This is not a PowerPoint calculation. It's a real facility. We've done real testing. We're using real equipment from real suppliers that we've talked to," Oldham added.
The business model works by adding hydrogen to the captured CO2 to produce a liquid fuel, which is already being produced in small quantities.
"We're going to make a completely clean gas. That gasoline or diesel of jet fuel will work with any existing vehicle," Oldham said. He added that this method not only solves the problem of converting the transportation industry to clean fuels, but it does so using the cars, buses, jets, etc., that are already on the road.
"[The fuel is] drop-in compatible. You can fill up that vehicle, and now that vehicle is carbon neutral, so that solves the problem of de-carbonizing the transportation sector, but no change. No change to cars, no change to gas stations," Oldham said.
At least seven companies around the world are working on similar technologies, including the Swiss-based Climeworks, who has already built a commercial-scale plant. However, none of Carbon Engineering's competitors are able to deploy this technology at the same low price point of between US$94 and US$232.
In comparison, it costs Climeworks approximately US$600 a tonne to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Another estimate for the process, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies, estimated the cost to be more than US$1,000.
The reason Carbon Engineering is able to capture CO2 from the air at such a low cost, it claims, is because of the company's use of technology and components that are well understood and commercially available. Oldham told Global News that an example of this can be found in the front end of the system – the component that actually pulls the CO2 out of the air – which uses membranes from the air cooler industry, often found in water coolers.
"Until now, research suggested it would cost US$600 per ton to remove CO2 from the atmosphere using DAC technology, making it too expensive to be a feasible solution to removing legacy carbon at scale. At CE, we've been working on direct air capture since 2009, running our pilot plant since 2015, and we now have the data and engineering to prove that DAC can achieve costs below US$100 per ton. No prior research in the peer-reviewed literature provides a design and engineering cost for a complete DAC system– and this paper fills that gap," said Harvard applied physics professor and lead author on the study, David Keith.
Carbon Engineering currently pulls about one tonne of carbon a day from the air and produces two barrels of fuel. Oldham says that since its components are "off the rack," it should be easy to scale up.
As a feature of the Paris climate agreements, leaders from around the world agreed to try to keep global warming within a two-degree limit, though fears have been raised that climate emissions won't be cut fast enough.
One of the great benefits of making fuel from air is energy independence, Oldham told CKNW's Jon McComb Show.
I think it's a fantastic opportunity. It provides fuel independence. We only need water, and sunlight and air to produce fuel. And that means you can locate your fuel plant wherever you have those three things – lots of places," he said.
Carbon Engineering's plan isn't foolproof though. Carbon Engineering's fuel costs about 25 per cent more than gasoline made from oil. Oldham said work is being done to reduce that.https://globalnews.ca/news/4264512/climate-crisis-suck-co2-out-of-sky/
Climate change is becoming like cancer research. A never ending sink hole for our money, but no cure is really wanted.
CNRL, a Canadian oil company was behind this. Don't tell the alarmists that.
Bill Gates too.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 08:51:09 AM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 08:51:09 AM
The CO2ube Kickstarter project filters out carbon dioxide at the scene of the crime: your car's tailpipe.
The CO2ube attaches onto the end of your tailpipe using hose clamps. A combination of algae and sodium hydroxide filters out the carbon dioxide as it exits from car.
A single CO2ube is going for a pledge price of $45. The company behind the product, Ecoviate, has created working prototypes and is looking to produce the device in quantity. A smartphone app is also intended to accompany the CO2ube. The app would let you track your emissions over time.
A $45 dollar device developed six years ago or an ever increasing carbon tax and subsidies for billionaires.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 08:57:39 AM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 08:57:39 AM
This technology should be mandatory and tax deductible. This will work a lot better than the Green Party's job killing fantasies.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:28:51 AM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:28:51 AM
The kickstarter for this product was unsuccessful. The alarmists don't want a simple, and cheap solution to carbon emissions. Apparently the same technology can be applied to home heating.Quote from: "seoulbro"
This technology should be mandatory and tax deductible. This will work a lot better than the Green Party's job killing fantasies.
The dirty bastards.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 11:15:20 AM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 11:15:20 AM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:15:32 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:15:32 PM
Scientists are reporting discovery of an improved way to remove carbon dioxide — the major greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming — from smokestacks and other sources, including the atmosphere. Their report on the process, which achieves some of the highest carbon dioxide removal capacity ever reported for real-world conditions where the air contains moisture, appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Their tests showed that these inexpensive materials achieved some of the highest carbon dioxide removal rates ever reported for humid air, under conditions that stymie other related materials. After capturing carbon dioxide, the materials give it up easily so that the CO2 can be used in making other substances, or permanently isolated from the environment. The capture material then can be recycled and reused many times over without losing efficiency. The researchers suggest the materials may be useful on submarines, in smokestacks or out in the open atmosphere, where they could clean up carbon dioxide pollution that comes from small point sources like cars or home heaters, representing about half of the total CO2 emissions related to human activity.
This was seven years ago. Money for wind and solar, but governments aren't interested in achievable solutions to C02 emissions that don't break the bank.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:37:32 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:37:32 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:56:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2019, 09:56:01 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 07, 2019, 01:32:56 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 07, 2019, 01:32:56 PM
Bill Gates is keeping a close eye on the field of carbon dioxide capture as well. Like next generation nuclear power and cow-free burgers, this emerging technology is likely to be one of our most effective weapons in the battle against climate change. Technologies that literally suck the greenhouse gas out of the air could make a real difference.
A number of carbon dioxide-catching plants are already open or slated to launch in the near future. They include Swiss firm Climeworks' facility, the first of its kind to extract the gas from the air and store it underground. Other facilities in Switzerland and the US will sell on the captured commodity to the drinks industry.
Gates predicts this to be widespread by 2024. I say Western countries will still milk taxpayers with carbon taxes and cash giveraways to useless wind and solar schemes.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Thiel on July 07, 2019, 03:25:37 PM
Post by: Thiel on July 07, 2019, 03:25:37 PM
Catalytic converters have been around for a few decades. I find it hard to believe something to capture or scrub C02 can't be on everu vehicle.Quote from: "Herman"
We want to do things the hard way.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Gaon on July 07, 2019, 09:02:24 PM
Post by: Gaon on July 07, 2019, 09:02:24 PM
This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution, study co-author says
The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a trillion of them, maybe more, according to a new study.
Swiss scientists also say that even with existing cities and farmland, there's enough space for new trees to cover nine million square kilometres, roughly the size of the United States.
The study calculated that over the decades, those new trees could suck up nearly 750 billion tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — about as much carbon pollution as humans have spewed in the past 25 years.
Much of that benefit will come quickly because trees remove more carbon from the air when they are younger, the study authors said. The potential for removing the most carbon is in the tropics.
Canada has lots of room for trees
"This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution" and the most effective, said study co-author Thomas Crowther, a climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and China have the most room for new trees, the report said.
Before his research, Crowther figured there were other more effective ways to fight climate change besides cutting emissions, such as people switching from eating meat to vegetarianism. But, he said, tree planting is far more effective because trees take so much carbon dioxide out of the air.
Thomas Lovejoy, a conservation biologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., who wasn't part of the study, called it "a good news story" because planting trees would also help stem the loss of biodiversity.
The researchers used Google Earth to see what areas could support more trees, while leaving room for people and crops. Lead author Jean-François Bastin estimated there's space for at least one trillion more trees, but it could be 1.5 trillion. That's on top of the three trillion trees now on Earth, according to earlier Crowther research.
The study's calculations make sense, said Chris Field, an environmental scientist at Stanford University in California who also wasn't part of the study.
This makes more sense than taxing essentials.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2019, 10:38:53 AM
Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2019, 10:38:53 AM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2019, 04:10:44 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 08, 2019, 04:10:44 PM
Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion treesQuote from: "Gaon"
This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution, study co-author says
The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a trillion of them, maybe more, according to a new study.
Swiss scientists also say that even with existing cities and farmland, there's enough space for new trees to cover nine million square kilometres, roughly the size of the United States.
The study calculated that over the decades, those new trees could suck up nearly 750 billion tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — about as much carbon pollution as humans have spewed in the past 25 years.
Much of that benefit will come quickly because trees remove more carbon from the air when they are younger, the study authors said. The potential for removing the most carbon is in the tropics.
Canada has lots of room for trees
"This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution" and the most effective, said study co-author Thomas Crowther, a climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and China have the most room for new trees, the report said.
Before his research, Crowther figured there were other more effective ways to fight climate change besides cutting emissions, such as people switching from eating meat to vegetarianism. But, he said, tree planting is far more effective because trees take so much carbon dioxide out of the air.
Thomas Lovejoy, a conservation biologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., who wasn't part of the study, called it "a good news story" because planting trees would also help stem the loss of biodiversity.
The researchers used Google Earth to see what areas could support more trees, while leaving room for people and crops. Lead author Jean-François Bastin estimated there's space for at least one trillion more trees, but it could be 1.5 trillion. That's on top of the three trillion trees now on Earth, according to earlier Crowther research.
The study's calculations make sense, said Chris Field, an environmental scientist at Stanford University in California who also wasn't part of the study.https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tree-planting-climate-change-1.5201102
This makes more sense than taxing essentials.
I like it. The UN climate fund can pay Canada to plant trees.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Thiel on July 09, 2019, 08:04:40 PM
Post by: Thiel on July 09, 2019, 08:04:40 PM
Carbon dioxide catcher
Bill Gates is keeping a close eye on the field of carbon dioxide capture as well. Like next generation nuclear power and cow-free burgers, this emerging technology is likely to be one of our most effective weapons in the battle against climate change. Technologies that literally suck the greenhouse gas out of the air could make a real difference.
A number of carbon dioxide-catching plants are already open or slated to launch in the near future. They include Swiss firm Climeworks' facility, the first of its kind to extract the gas from the air and store it underground. Other facilities in Switzerland and the US will sell on the captured commodity to the drinks industry.
Gates predicts this to be widespread by 2024. I say Western countries will still milk taxpayers with carbon taxes and cash giveraways to useless wind and solar schemes.
So, in five years all the money we have spent on solar and wind subsidies will have been for nothing. We can keep everything as is and simply suck C02 out of the atmosphere.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2019, 03:24:45 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 12, 2019, 03:24:45 PM
Instead of instituting economically-optimal climate policies, Canadian jurisdictions have turned their carbon taxes into cash grabs and used revenues to badly distort energy markets.
So what else could our governments do?
One alternative to carbon taxes might be to facilitate the use of natural gas (rather than wind and solar power) for both power generation and to replace diesel fuel and gasoline for Canadian transportation. As of 2015, transportation was estimated to be the second-highest source of GHG emissions, comprising 24 per cent of all Canadian emissions. Between 1990 and 2015, GHG emissions from the transportation sector grew by 42 per cent.
Gwyn Morgan, founding CEO of Encana, suggests that governments facilitate a shift to natural gas for gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles (Canada has a nearly limitless supply of natural gas, but we rarely drive on it). Other countries such as China, Iran, Argentina and others have far higher market share for natural gas transportation than we do. Morgan suggests the cost of natural gas is less than diesel/gasoline, and that by simply not taxing natural gas as governments do with diesel/gasoline, we could achieve massive emission reductions while simultaneously saving Canadians money. And Morgan also suggests converting gasoline-powered vehicles to natural gas would cut CO2 emissions by one-third.
Clearly, carbon taxes are only one approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But history teaches that carbon taxes rapidly become cash grabs used to tinker with our energy economy by promoting types of power that drive up energy prices. With growing resistance to carbon taxes around the world, Canada is increasingly "going on its own" with a price others need not match. Creative alternatives, including the switch to natural gas transportation, is an alternative worth exploring.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 14, 2019, 01:20:50 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 14, 2019, 01:20:50 PM
Charging people more for basic necessities of life is the worst possible way to reduce carbon emissions. The money used is spent distorting energy markets making the cost of electricity in particular artificially expensive.Quote from: "Herman"https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/carbon-taxes-there-are-other-ways-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Instead of instituting economically-optimal climate policies, Canadian jurisdictions have turned their carbon taxes into cash grabs and used revenues to badly distort energy markets.
So what else could our governments do?
One alternative to carbon taxes might be to facilitate the use of natural gas (rather than wind and solar power) for both power generation and to replace diesel fuel and gasoline for Canadian transportation. As of 2015, transportation was estimated to be the second-highest source of GHG emissions, comprising 24 per cent of all Canadian emissions. Between 1990 and 2015, GHG emissions from the transportation sector grew by 42 per cent.
Gwyn Morgan, founding CEO of Encana, suggests that governments facilitate a shift to natural gas for gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles (Canada has a nearly limitless supply of natural gas, but we rarely drive on it). Other countries such as China, Iran, Argentina and others have far higher market share for natural gas transportation than we do. Morgan suggests the cost of natural gas is less than diesel/gasoline, and that by simply not taxing natural gas as governments do with diesel/gasoline, we could achieve massive emission reductions while simultaneously saving Canadians money. And Morgan also suggests converting gasoline-powered vehicles to natural gas would cut CO2 emissions by one-third.
Clearly, carbon taxes are only one approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But history teaches that carbon taxes rapidly become cash grabs used to tinker with our energy economy by promoting types of power that drive up energy prices. With growing resistance to carbon taxes around the world, Canada is increasingly "going on its own" with a price others need not match. Creative alternatives, including the switch to natural gas transportation, is an alternative worth exploring.
Switching vehicles to natural gas requires massive infrastructure changes across Canada. Propane was a failure. It is more practical to keep the nation's vehicle fleet and infrastructure and add something to the exhaust that either captures or dissipates C02 emissions.
But, I agree carbon taxes are a cash grab/wealth transfer. Particularly how it has been implemented in Canada.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 14, 2019, 11:20:15 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 14, 2019, 11:20:15 PM
Charging people more for basic necessities of life is the worst possible way to reduce carbon emissions. The money used is spent distorting energy markets making the cost of electricity in particular artificially expensive.Quote from: "Herman"https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/carbon-taxes-there-are-other-ways-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions
Instead of instituting economically-optimal climate policies, Canadian jurisdictions have turned their carbon taxes into cash grabs and used revenues to badly distort energy markets.
So what else could our governments do?
One alternative to carbon taxes might be to facilitate the use of natural gas (rather than wind and solar power) for both power generation and to replace diesel fuel and gasoline for Canadian transportation. As of 2015, transportation was estimated to be the second-highest source of GHG emissions, comprising 24 per cent of all Canadian emissions. Between 1990 and 2015, GHG emissions from the transportation sector grew by 42 per cent.
Gwyn Morgan, founding CEO of Encana, suggests that governments facilitate a shift to natural gas for gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles (Canada has a nearly limitless supply of natural gas, but we rarely drive on it). Other countries such as China, Iran, Argentina and others have far higher market share for natural gas transportation than we do. Morgan suggests the cost of natural gas is less than diesel/gasoline, and that by simply not taxing natural gas as governments do with diesel/gasoline, we could achieve massive emission reductions while simultaneously saving Canadians money. And Morgan also suggests converting gasoline-powered vehicles to natural gas would cut CO2 emissions by one-third.
Clearly, carbon taxes are only one approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But history teaches that carbon taxes rapidly become cash grabs used to tinker with our energy economy by promoting types of power that drive up energy prices. With growing resistance to carbon taxes around the world, Canada is increasingly "going on its own" with a price others need not match. Creative alternatives, including the switch to natural gas transportation, is an alternative worth exploring.
Switching vehicles to natural gas requires massive infrastructure changes across Canada. Propane was a failure. It is more practical to keep the nation's vehicle fleet and infrastructure and add something to the exhaust that either captures or dissipates C02 emissions.
But, I agree carbon taxes are a cash grab/wealth transfer. Particularly how it has been implemented in Canada.
I know a switch to natural gas requires massive expensive changes.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 16, 2019, 09:36:19 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 16, 2019, 09:36:19 PM
Von der Leyen Vows $1.1 Trillion Green Deal in Pitch to EU
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Bricktop on July 16, 2019, 09:41:29 PM
Post by: Bricktop on July 16, 2019, 09:41:29 PM
Another reason I'm glad we aren't part of the nuthouse...just another United Nations gabfest.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 16, 2019, 09:57:52 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 16, 2019, 09:57:52 PM
"The Christian Democratic nominee directed her appeal to left-of-center members of the European Union's legislature".Quote from: "Bricktop"
Another reason I'm glad we aren't part of the nuthouse...just another United Nations gabfest.
It's why nationalism is growing in the EU.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 17, 2019, 09:52:21 AM
Post by: Anonymous on July 17, 2019, 09:52:21 AM
I know this thread is about sensible ideas on climate change, but I did not want to start a new thread just for this. The EU is doubling down on expensive uselessness. The new EU boss wants to waste another 1.1 trillion Euros on what amounts to higher energy prices for average Europeans.Quote from: "Herman"
Von der Leyen Vows $1.1 Trillion Green Deal in Pitch to EUhttps://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/von-der-leyen-proposes-green-073426374.html
The EU bureaucracy is under the illusion the best plans for climate change must cost the people a lot of money. Simple and cheaper solutions are the most effective.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on July 30, 2019, 04:31:49 PM
Post by: Anonymous on July 30, 2019, 04:31:49 PM
Company operating in Swan Hills hopes to use method to create electricity
A Calgary-based oil and gas company operating in Swan Hills could be among the first in Canada to use geothermal heat as a source of power.
Razor Energy is working to capture heat from hot water reservoirs on its site to turn into electricity. The company has teamed up with the University of Alberta's department of earth and atmospheric sciences to research this new method.
Oilfield activity
Jonathan Banks, project lead with the university, said oilfield activity produces a lot of hot water by bringing geothermal energy to the surface through day-to-day operations.
"This has never been done anywhere at this scale," Banks said. "This is a first of its kind in Canada for sure. Whether it will be the first geothermal installed power in Canada remains to be seen."
Razor president Doug Bailey said if the company succeeds, the project will be economically viable and worthy of commercial investment.
"We're very happy to see others getting into this industry, which we believe has a very strong and significant future but for us, we're going to do right by our stakeholders," he said. "If we don't win the race, so to speak, so be it. It would be great if we were first but we're not going to force that issue."
Historically, geothermal energy has been limited to volcanic landscapes, where there is a lot of heat and hot water right below the surface, but Banks said the geothermal community is looking to expand into new areas that previously weren't seen as economically viable.
He said the university plans to use the research to see if the same thing can be applied to other companies across the province.
'Provincial opportunities'
"We're looking at what works and what doesn't work in their field, and then trying to extrapolate that across the entire province to see what the provincial opportunities are with this type of technology," he said. "Hydrocarbon producers are starting to take their carbon footprint seriously. They (are starting) to look for very local solutions and I think we have one here in Alberta."
The project is currently being constructed and is in the middle of final engineering. The project is designed to generate 21 megawatts of power from two sources. Around five megawatts will be produced from hot water heat and heat recovered from the battery site and an additional 15 will be from natural gas-fired generation.
Razor has received $7 million from the federal and provincial governments to fund the approximately $15 to $20 million project.
The timeline for the project includes a heat pilot in the summer, possible civil construction in the third quarter and potentially connecting to Alberta's grid in the first quarter of 2020.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on October 29, 2019, 10:23:26 PM
Post by: Anonymous on October 29, 2019, 10:23:26 PM
Wood waste is converted into energy
An energy technology project that converts wood waste into renewable natural gas has been providing energy to edmonton homes and businesses for six months in a demonstration project, and now its ready to scale up.
"It's a great relief (from) all this hard work and the close cooperation and support of all of our partners — it's tremendous to have this out and running at this stage," edson Ng, principal of G4 Insights Inc., the Vancouverbased company developing and commercializing the process to produce renewable natural gas.
The project has been 11 years in the making. "We've been chipping away for quite a while," said Ng.
during the six-month demonstration project, G4
Insights converted forest residues into renewable natural gas and injected that gas directly into the natural gas distribution system operated by atco.
The company aims to expand it into a small commercial plant in three to five years, he said.
To be economically viable, the plant would need to process about 36 tonnes of wood waste per day, but to match the waste produced by a sawmill, that would need to ramp up to about 750 tonnes a day, Ng said.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on October 30, 2019, 08:26:43 AM
Post by: Anonymous on October 30, 2019, 08:26:43 AM
Renewable natural gas project plans expansion
Wood waste is converted into energy
An energy technology project that converts wood waste into renewable natural gas has been providing energy to edmonton homes and businesses for six months in a demonstration project, and now its ready to scale up.
"It's a great relief (from) all this hard work and the close cooperation and support of all of our partners — it's tremendous to have this out and running at this stage," edson Ng, principal of G4 Insights Inc., the Vancouverbased company developing and commercializing the process to produce renewable natural gas.
The project has been 11 years in the making. "We've been chipping away for quite a while," said Ng.
during the six-month demonstration project, G4
Insights converted forest residues into renewable natural gas and injected that gas directly into the natural gas distribution system operated by atco.
The company aims to expand it into a small commercial plant in three to five years, he said.
To be economically viable, the plant would need to process about 36 tonnes of wood waste per day, but to match the waste produced by a sawmill, that would need to ramp up to about 750 tonnes a day, Ng said.
Clever idea. But, progs won't like it if don't turn wood waste into solar panels and unicorn farts.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on October 31, 2019, 11:55:16 AM
Post by: Anonymous on October 31, 2019, 11:55:16 AM
Mangrove Water Technologies uses carbon technology to turn waste products from oil and gas operations into valuable chemicals and by doing so, reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Carboncure, injects carbon dioxide into concrete to improve the process and performance of manufacturing.
The aim is to scale up across the concrete and construction industry and target 180 plants in Alberta and more than 1,100 plants across North America for commercial rollout by 2025. It's applications can be transferred to oilsands operations.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on November 02, 2019, 01:09:43 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 02, 2019, 01:09:43 PM
In 1898, government bureaucrats gathered at the first urban planning conference in New York to discuss a very serious problem — the "Great Horse Manure Crisis."
At the time, city streets around the world were full of horse and buggies transporting people and products all over the place. But those same streets also had a growing problem with horse manure, and in some cases, horse carcasses laying on the roads for days at a time. All this culminated in an influx of flies that spread typhoid fever and other diseases.
Urban planners at the New York conference never did solve this problem though. The issue was eventually addressed by technological change as cars replaced the horse and buggy.
Over 100 years later, governments around the world are once again sounding alarm bells, this time about a "climate emergency." Greenhouse gas emissions are now in the cross-hairs of politicians across the political spectrum.
But just as we saw with the "Great Horse Manure Crisis," it likely won't be preachy politicians and bureaucrats that address the planet's emissions, but rather technological change.
Note that society is currently addicted to oil and that doesn't appear to be changing. The United States government just released analysis that estimates global oil and gas usage will increase at least until 2050. Other forecasts show similar growth patterns.
Oil demand is expected to grow not only for transportation purposes, but also for making products that are made with oil: plastics for our cell phones, children's toys, aspirin, lipstick and bicycle tires to name a few.
Electric cars are one option to help reduce emissions (provided they don't receive their power from coal power plants), and they're starting to put a very small dent in vehicle sales, but mass adoption is likely quite far off.
What we have seen, however, are several companies coming forward with new technology to reduce emissions. Here are a few great Canadian examples:
Ontario-based Pond Technologies has created a system that diverts carbon dioxide from smokestacks into large tanks that have algae inside. The algae then consume the carbon dioxide that's pumped into the tanks and multiply. Ultimately, the algae can be processed and used to produce everything from animal feed and nutraceuticals to bioplastics and fertilizer.
Ontario-based Berg Chilling Systems has also developed technology that's quite innovative. Their equipment reduces the amount of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) that are burned at sites where oil and gas is extracted. Instead of oil companies burning methane and other gases when they extract oil and gas from the ground, Berg Chilling System's equipment allows the companies to captures these gases and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Berg's site, just one of their units can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 11,500 tons in a single year.
In the trucking world, companies such as Drivewyze have developed apps to help trucks with good safety track records bypass weigh stations. By skipping these stops, the trucks don't have to sit and waste fuel while staff weigh their vehicle and review their records.
To be sure, these tools won't address Canada's emissions on their own, but Canadians should know that lots of local companies are busy working on technological solutions. Dire predictions about the end of the world are more horse manure than anything.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on November 02, 2019, 07:00:03 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 02, 2019, 07:00:03 PM
Ontario-based Pond Technologies has created a system that diverts carbon dioxide from smokestacks into large tanks that have algae inside. The algae then consume the carbon dioxide that's pumped into the tanks and multiply. Ultimately, the algae can be processed and used to produce everything from animal feed and nutraceuticals to bioplastics and fertilizer.Quote
I like this. A commercial use for C02. Works a lot better than another frickin tax.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on December 19, 2019, 12:32:53 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 19, 2019, 12:32:53 AM
For decades, the pumpjack has served as part of Alberta's identity, a symbol of its wealth and prosperity.
Still, the landscape in the province is beginning to change as fewer are needed to do the work they once did.
The oil producing equipment is not going extinct like the traditional grain elevator, but just as technology changed how agriculture companies built their terminals, innovation is altering the number, size and placement of pumpjacks.
For much of the last century, oil wells were similar to drilling a water well — they were vertical. That changed in the mid-2000s when companies discovered how to turn the drill bit and produce directional wells.
Technology continues to improve and as a result, oil wells are getting longer and longer. The average oil well drilled is now about three kilometres in length.
"The ability to steer a drill bit with the accuracy to hit the target the size of a bathtub that is seven thousand metres below the surface of the earth, I mean that's what we did," said Mark Salkeld, the past president of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada.
"We're drilling less but the wells are far more complex. They're longer, deeper and significantly more productive than the wells that we used to drill," he said.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on December 19, 2019, 12:36:17 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 19, 2019, 12:36:17 AM
The number of new wells drilled has declined for several years because of innovation in the sector and also, in part, by the downturn in the sector over the last five years.
As a result, since 2015, more oil and gas wells in the province have been decommissioned, compared to new wells drilled. That means natural gas wells and oil pumpjacks are currently disappearing at a faster rate than new ones are created.
"Not only are we going to see the landscape start to clean up with respect to wells decommissioned and pumpjacks being taken away and land reclaimed, but the wells we will drill are fewer," said Salkeld.
"Driving down the highway to Lethbridge or Medicine Hat and seeing pumpjacks on the side of the highway — you can see that change."
In addition, instead of a few dozen pumpjacks spread across an area, in some newer developments they are placed side-by-side to reduce the number of pipelines needed.
Dan Hoffarth notices the evolution as he travels through parts of Texas. He's the chief executive of Calgary-based Citadel Drilling, which moved all of its rigs to the southern U.S. two years ago.
"You see pumpjacks everywhere on the horizon, but in the new areas, you just don't see that anymore," he said.
A new oil well can access more oil, Hoffarth said, than 20 wells could have reached previously.
"The technology has just advanced to such a degree," he said. "Your footprint is so small compared to what it used to be."
In addition, instead of a few dozen pumpjacks spread across an area, in some newer developments they are placed side-by-side to reduce the number of pipelines needed.
Dan Hoffarth notices the evolution as he travels through parts of Texas. He's the chief executive of Calgary-based Citadel Drilling, which moved all of its rigs to the southern U.S. two years ago.
"You see pumpjacks everywhere on the horizon, but in the new areas, you just don't see that anymore," he said.
A new oil well can access more oil, Hoffarth said, than 20 wells could have reached previously.
"The technology has just advanced to such a degree," he said. "Your footprint is so small compared to what it used to be."
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on December 19, 2019, 01:21:34 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 19, 2019, 01:21:34 AM
"The technology has just advanced to such a degree," he said. "Your footprint is so small compared to what it used to be."Quote
That's what my husband has told me too Herman..
North Dakota's oil and gas is very busy, but with fewer and deeper wells drilled.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on December 30, 2019, 03:18:39 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 30, 2019, 03:18:39 PM
We can take C02 out of the atmosphere right now without re-engineering our entire electrical and transportation systems.
Somewhere in west Texas, amid one of the most productive oilfields in the continent, a Canadian company is building a plant that it hopes will eventually suck from the air a million tonnes of carbon being pumped out of the ground all around it.
Carbon Engineering's groundbreaking plant is one of many projects hoping to help in the fight against climate change by turning its main driver — carbon dioxide — into a useful product that can be profitably removed from the atmosphere.
"We're pulling the CO2 back down," CEO Steve Oldham said in a recent interview.
People in labs and boardrooms around the world are beginning to confront the realization that more needs to be done than cut emissions if the world is to remain livable. Vast amounts of carbon already in the atmosphere will have to be removed.
And that, says energy economist Mark Jaccard, is why companies such as Carbon Engineering are so important. Using CO2 to make marketable products will help pay for the massive scale-up of technology to remove CO2 and inject it permanently underground.
"You're going to have to figure out some product you can make until humanity's ready to use this for the real reason, which is to capture and bury carbon," said Jaccard of the University of British Columbia.
Carbon Engineering is already pulling CO2 from the air and turning it into fuel at its pilot plant in Squamish, B.C. In Halifax, Carboncure Technologies is injecting CO2 into concrete.
Many companies already inject CO2 underground to force more oil to the surface -which, if done right, can result in carbon-negative oil. Other companies are using the gas to create useful chemicals, carbon nanotubes or plastics.
"There's a number of technologies we're trying to advance," said Wes Jickling of the Canadian Oilsands Innovation
Alliance. The group is helping run the Carbon Xprize, a $20-million award for the best conversion of CO2 into a saleable product.
The market for such products has been estimated at $1 trillion a year.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on December 30, 2019, 04:03:38 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 30, 2019, 04:03:38 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 04, 2020, 09:08:41 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 04, 2020, 09:08:41 PM
Conservatives have now come up with boldest plan to fight climate change
The most important development of 2019 that got the least amount of attention from the Canadian news media? The "dog bites man" story of Canadian conservative leaders coming up with the best, boldest and most visionary plan to combat climate change this country has ever seen.
The plan is pushed by a group of Canada's most hard-headed and powerful conservative leaders, Premiers Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, Doug Ford of Ontario and Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick.
Their goal is to help wipe out carbon emissions without wiping out the Canadian economy.
Moe, Ford and Higgs made public Canada's Green Nuclear deal on Dec. 1, announcing their three provinces had signed an agreement to work together to create the next wave of safe, reliable Canadian nuclear power plants, known as small modular reactors (SMRs).
"Today we are joining as premiers and provinces to look at the coming decade and beyond, to advance the development of zero emission small modular nuclear reactor technology," Moe said. "Implementing small modular reactors will provide meaningful action in reducing our carbon emissions in electricity production while providing affordable, base-load power to our communities and industries."
Andrew Scheer during the campaign, it became clear he meant to mainly push the export of Canada's excellent Candu nuclear technology, not find a way to help build a new wave of emissions-killing, prosperity-building reactors across Canada.
Scheer's stance made some amount of sense. We're a small country with minuscule emissions. Even if we reduce them, it will make little difference. We can, however, make a huge difference by exporting carbon-busting Candu tech to huge emitters like China and India.
But what works in China and India will also work here to keep our own emissions low, just as Canada has done for decades now. In 2017, for example, nuclear energy supplied 50 per cent of Ontario's electricity and 15 per cent of Canada's electricity.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on November 30, 2020, 09:00:17 PM
Post by: Anonymous on November 30, 2020, 09:00:17 PM
Alberta's hydrogen strategy must focus on emissions to be competitive, experts say
Some experts say the Alberta government's hydrogen strategy needs to focus on emissions in order to be competitive amid the global transition to sustainable energy.
Alberta is aiming to export blue hydrogen globally by 2040, but international markets are looking more to green hydrogen to meet their climate targets by 2030, when its price could be competitive with its blue counterpart.
While hydrogen is poised to have energy applications across industries that are otherwise difficult to get off carbon — from transportation to heating — not all hydrogen is produced the same way. Cheaper- to- produce blue hydrogen is made from natural gas using carbon capture and storage, which has some carbon emissions, whereas green hydrogen is made from water using renewable power and creates zero emissions.
The European Union Commission, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and the UK have green hydrogen plans, and have dedicated billions in post- pandemic recovery funds to roll out infrastructure and spur production. Germany has announced nine billion euros, or just under $14 billion.
Tim Nash, founder of Good Investing, a financial planning company that focuses on sustainable investment, said capital markets are moving toward a low- carbon economy with clean- fuel standards and vehicle electrification.
"If the reason why people are switching to hydrogen is to lower the carbon footprint and to lower greenhouse gas emissions, there's definitely going to be a market preference for green hydrogen," said Nash.
With federal reserve banks increasing their carbon price projections, Nash said blue hydrogen likely won't be as competitive.
"If the government of Alberta is making decisions looking at the economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years, they need to have climate risk and carbon pricing front and centre in those plans," said Nash.
The province announced Alberta's natural gas strategy, with hydrogen as one of its five initiatives, last month, and is expected to release the details of the hydrogen strategy in the spring. Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon told reporters in the legislature Nov. 19 that Alberta would "strongly" be against emissions targets set by the federal government.
"We're going to continue to do it Alberta's way, which is focused on technology innovation, ( and) making sure there's a future for hydrocarbons," said Nixon.
The federal government is also set to launch its own hydrogen strategy this fall as part of its plan to meet its goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
Alberta has competitive advantages. Its blue hydrogen production is ranked the second cheapest after Russia, has ample carbon storage capacity, the ability to piggyback on existing petroleum infrastructure and the potential to ship hydrogen directly to Asia.
But as the cost of renewables like wind and solar drops, green hydrogen could become cost- competitive with natural- gas- derived hydrogen as early as 2023 in some places, according to forecasts from investment bank Morgan Stanley, or by 2030, according to BloombergNEF.
Simon Dyer, deputy executive director of the Pembina Institute, said he's supportive of Alberta's hydrogen strategy, but the province should consider incentivizing both if it's going to get serious about climate goals.
"Neither Canada, nor Alberta, should put all its eggs in the blue hydrogen basket," said Dyer.
Dyer said the jury is still out on whether blue hydrogen will be price- competitive long term.
In an early November interview, Alberta's associate minister of natural gas Dale Nally said the development of a hydrogen economy is going to happen slowly and incrementally, and the market will decide whether blue hydrogen remains competitive.
"Our position is that it would be it would be a mistake to not advance that when we have such strong competitive advantages," said Nally.
Nally said encouraging blue hydrogen production is about reducing emissions and exploiting renewable markets — but ultimately about jobs and the economy.
"We are not going to apologize for our oil and gas industry, and oil and gas is what's going to get us out of recovery."
According to think- tank Clean Energy Canada, the industry could be a lifeline for the oil and gas sector, but policy director Sarah Petrevan said hydrogen strategies need to be focused on reducing emissions — however it's produced — to be competitive.
Without that focus, she said, Alberta might be out of step with what the jurisdictions it hopes to export to.
"With the global drive toward decreasing emissions, and for many jurisdictions (achieving) net zero by 2050, those jurisdictions are going to want zero emissions or the cleanest hydrogen they can possibly get," said Petrevan.
"Innovation could create a new market because then you could fully utilize the natural gas resources without emissions," he said.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on December 27, 2020, 01:41:11 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 27, 2020, 01:41:11 AM
This could be a big breakthrough for carbon capture and fighting climate change.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:07:21 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:07:21 PM
Government Approves Routes for Wyoming CO2 Pipelinesps://pgjonline.com/news/2021/january/government-approves-routes-for-wyoming-co2-pipelines#:~:text=CASPER%2C%20Wyo.,America%2C%20if%20it%20is%20developed.
CASPER, Wyo. — The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it is developed.
The greenhouse gas would be captured from coal-fired power plants, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it causes global warming. The captured gas would instead be pumped underground to add pressure to and boost production from oil fields.
n all, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management designated 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) of federal land for pipeline development through the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed the plans last Friday, days before leaving office with the rest of President Donald Trump's administration. The approval allows companies to begin submitting pipeline construction proposals.
Wyoming officials including Republican Gov. Mark Gordon have promoted carbon capture as a way to boost the state's struggling coal mining industry.
Utilities nationwide have been turning away from coal-fired electricity in favor of cheaper and cleaner natural gas.
"The ability to have a CO2 delivery system, as made possible by the pipeline corridor initiative, helps make CO2 commercially viable," Gordon said in a statement Wednesday.
Whether a large system of carbon capture for oil production is technically and economically feasible remains to be seen. One of two such systems in North America, the Petra Nova facility in Texas, has been offline since global oil prices plummeted last year.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:07:21 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:07:21 PM
Government Approves Routes for Wyoming CO2 Pipelines
CASPER, Wyo. — The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it is developed.
The greenhouse gas would be captured from coal-fired power plants, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it causes global warming. The captured gas would instead be pumped underground to add pressure to and boost production from oil fields.
n all, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management designated 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) of federal land for pipeline development through the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed the plans last Friday, days before leaving office with the rest of President Donald Trump's administration. The approval allows companies to begin submitting pipeline construction proposals.
Wyoming officials including Republican Gov. Mark Gordon have promoted carbon capture as a way to boost the state's struggling coal mining industry.
Utilities nationwide have been turning away from coal-fired electricity in favor of cheaper and cleaner natural gas.
"The ability to have a CO2 delivery system, as made possible by the pipeline corridor initiative, helps make CO2 commercially viable," Gordon said in a statement Wednesday.
Whether a large system of carbon capture for oil production is technically and economically feasible remains to be seen. One of two such systems in North America, the Petra Nova facility in Texas, has been offline since global oil prices plummeted last year.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:21:05 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 09:21:05 PM
This seems a hell of a lot more practical than shutting down everything and importing solar panels from China.
Government Approves Routes for Wyoming CO2 Pipelinesps://pgjonline.com/news/2021/january/government-approves-routes-for-wyoming-co2-pipelines#:~:text=CASPER%2C%20Wyo.,America%2C%20if%20it%20is%20developed.
CASPER, Wyo. — The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it is developed.
The greenhouse gas would be captured from coal-fired power plants, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it causes global warming. The captured gas would instead be pumped underground to add pressure to and boost production from oil fields.
n all, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management designated 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) of federal land for pipeline development through the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed the plans last Friday, days before leaving office with the rest of President Donald Trump's administration. The approval allows companies to begin submitting pipeline construction proposals.
Wyoming officials including Republican Gov. Mark Gordon have promoted carbon capture as a way to boost the state's struggling coal mining industry.
Utilities nationwide have been turning away from coal-fired electricity in favor of cheaper and cleaner natural gas.
"The ability to have a CO2 delivery system, as made possible by the pipeline corridor initiative, helps make CO2 commercially viable," Gordon said in a statement Wednesday.
Whether a large system of carbon capture for oil production is technically and economically feasible remains to be seen. One of two such systems in North America, the Petra Nova facility in Texas, has been offline since global oil prices plummeted last year.
It creates jobs here rather than in China.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:11:08 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 10:11:08 PM
This seems a hell of a lot more practical than shutting down everything and importing solar panels from China.
Government Approves Routes for Wyoming CO2 Pipelines. https://pgjonline.com/news/2021/january/government-approves-routes-for-wyoming-co2-pipelines#:~:text=CASPER%2C%20Wyo.,America%2C%20if%20it%20is%20developed
CASPER, Wyo. — The U.S. government has approved routes for a system of pipelines that would move carbon dioxide across Wyoming in what could be by far the largest such network in North America, if it is developed.
The greenhouse gas would be captured from coal-fired power plants, keeping it out of the atmosphere where it causes global warming. The captured gas would instead be pumped underground to add pressure to and boost production from oil fields.
n all, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management designated 1,100 miles (1,770 kilometers) of federal land for pipeline development through the Wyoming Pipeline Corridor Initiative, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed the plans last Friday, days before leaving office with the rest of President Donald Trump's administration. The approval allows companies to begin submitting pipeline construction proposals.
Wyoming officials including Republican Gov. Mark Gordon have promoted carbon capture as a way to boost the state's struggling coal mining industry.
Utilities nationwide have been turning away from coal-fired electricity in favor of cheaper and cleaner natural gas.
"The ability to have a CO2 delivery system, as made possible by the pipeline corridor initiative, helps make CO2 commercially viable," Gordon said in a statement Wednesday.
Whether a large system of carbon capture for oil production is technically and economically feasible remains to be seen. One of two such systems in North America, the Petra Nova facility in Texas, has been offline since global oil prices plummeted last year.
I've known about technologies like this for a long time. We could ramp up oil and gas development three fold and still cut emissions faster and more efficiently than the Trudeau/Nothead/Biden approach. However, I'm just an engineer. Drama teachers, social workers, and lawyers know science better than moi.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:00:47 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 21, 2021, 11:00:47 PM
Elon Musk says he will give $100 million to whoever creates the best carbon capture technology
Elon Musk said Thursday he'll give $100 million as a prize for the "best carbon capture technology."
Musk recently asked for tips on where to donate his wealth, of which he has promised to give away half.
Carbon capture is likely to play a major role in Biden's plans for addressing climate change.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on February 19, 2021, 10:56:49 AM
Post by: Anonymous on February 19, 2021, 10:56:49 AM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on February 22, 2021, 09:59:02 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 22, 2021, 09:59:02 PM
Carbon as an 'untapped resource': A new crop of Alberta companies take on the CO2 challenge
Meet the innovators who are trying to turn carbon dioxide into useful things like fuels, soap and building materials
CO2 is a chemical for us, a building material. So we don't hate it like a lot of others — that was the starting point
MINA ZARABIAN, CARBONOVA CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
The starting point for their research was a simple idea. Instead of viewing carbon dioxide as a pollutant that needs to be stuffed underground, or that could be written off as a useless byproduct, what if they could harness its power as a chemical to build something — to monetize it?
After several years of research, they hit upon a way to use carbon dioxide to construct carbon nanofibres — a material that is lighter, stronger, and more flexible than steel, and is now drawing growing interest for use as a material in batteries, electric vehicles, concrete, tires, reinforced plastics, semiconductors and all manner of products.
Today, Zarabian is chief executive of Carbonova Corp., which she and Pereira co-founded, initially with backing from the University of Calgary. Still in the process of scaling up to bring their carbon nanofibres to market, it's one of a growing crop of start-ups, many based in Alberta and many operated by new Canadians who came here to complete their education, that have devised innovative ways of using CO2, treating it, as Zarabian put it, as "an untapped resource," nearly limitless in supply.
"Carbon dioxide is a chemical that doesn't want to do anything," she explained. "It's so lazy. It's so symmetrical."
For a long time, that natural stability made it an irksome chemical that required too much energy to change into something more useful. But now those same properties are fuelling investor excitement into at least a half-dozen companies that are researching CO2 as a component of fuels, industrial gases, soap, carbon nanofibres and various new chemicals and materials.
Indeed, Carbonova is in the process of closing its first seed financing. While Zarabian could not disclose the exact amount, she said it is in excess of $1 million, with backing from prominent oil and gas entrepreneurs and executives, including a personal stake by Pat Carlson, the founder of Seven Generations Ltd., and through Kiwetinohk Resources Corp., the company where he is currently chief executive. Sue Riddell Rose, a major investor in the oilpatch, also made a personal investment in Carbonova and through her company Perpetual Energy Inc.
The company also received part of its initial funding from tBut the new crop of companies innovating with CO2 differ in at least one crucial way from oil and gas producers. Their products are often built around closed loop systems, that are designed to be carbon neutral, or carbon negative, and that's helping power a rush of investor excitement.
"I'm bullish that the technologies are going to get better and the economics are going to lean in their direction," said Jason Switzer, executive director of the Alberta Clean Technology Industry Alliance. "Investors want to make bets on the new economy."
Alberta, of course, has long been a testing ground for carbon dioxide innovation. With its long-lived oilsands mines, companies operating in the oilpatch have always been well-positioned to conduct research and development.
As the province and other jurisdictions used tax credits to incentivize cleaner emissions, oil companies have been at the forefront of capturing and storing CO2, and even pumping it into their reservoirs to improve oil recovery. Shell Canada Ltd. operates the Quest Carbon Capture Project that since 2015 has captured and stored CO2 two kilometres underground, while Saskatchewan Power Corp. operates Boundary Dam Power Station near Estevan, that uses carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
The Squamish-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. regularly generates headlines for its plans to suck CO2 out of the air. Founded by David Keith, a Harvard professor who grew up in Ottawa, the company built a test plant in 2017 that's already pulling tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the air every year.
Next up, with backing from Occidental Petroleum Corp. and private equity firms, and the benefit of a U.S. federal tax credit, it is moving forward with plans for a much larger plant in Texas capable of pulling one million metric tonnes of CO2 out of the atmosphere. The plan is to use the CO2 to enhance oil recovery.
Switzer said such companies, working on what's known as direct air capture, continue to draw investment, in part because more research is needed to bring down the cost of removing CO2 from the air.
"If they can make the economics work, if the world continues to be serious about climate change," he said, "you would imagine those facilities are going to be cranked out."
Last month, analysts at Citi Research estimated that carbon capture, storage and utilization, which thus far has received a negligible amount of investment, is rapidly gaining momentum.
"We think investment will grow from close to zero to a $70 billion per year business this decade, and doubling in size again in the 2030s," the Citi analysts wrote.
But Carbon Engineering is far from the only player working in this area, with the Citi report noting that Royal Dutch Shell Plc, BP Plc and Equinor ASA are among the oil majors investing in carbon capture and storage, though not all of these companies are looking into direct air capture. Some are simply capturing CO2 at known emission points rather than sucking it out of the air.
In addition, there is an emerging group of startups that, like Carbon Engineering, are researching how to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
Earlier this month, the Alberta Cleantech Investment Summit, an online forum for startups to pitch their companies, featured two companies that are using carbon dioxide as a building material to make a product.
"The concept of taking CO2 and producing new fuels is not new," said Paul Addo, chief executive of See 02 Energy Inc. in Calgary told the Financial Post. "But there's now a good push for companies to be socially responsible."
Addo, who emigrated to Canada from Ghana to complete a PhD at the University of Calgary, is working on a way to create fuel from CO2 and water. Already, his company has drawn investment from the government-funded Sustainable Development Technology Canada, is forming partnerships with large companies such as Luxembourg steel company ArcelorMittal S.A.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on August 13, 2021, 05:48:34 PM
Post by: Anonymous on August 13, 2021, 05:48:34 PM
Work is under way to build what officials say will be the first net-zero natural gas-powered electricity plant in Canada.
Frog Lake First Nation, east of Edmonton, has partnered with Kanata Clean Power and Climate Technologies to use NET Power's patented technology to build the plant.
It will use natural gas and pure oxygen to generate electricity, with the resulting CO2 recycled through a combustor, turbine, heat exchanger and compressor — finally generating power without emissions, according to the companies.
Frog Lake's NET Power plant will generate 300 megawatts of electricity, and produce water for 15,000 households. The clean water is a waste product of the process.
A 50-megawatt plant using the same technology is already in operation in La Porte, Texas. Four others in the United States and United Kingdom are also in development.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on August 28, 2021, 04:20:12 PM
Post by: Anonymous on August 28, 2021, 04:20:12 PM
Imperial to produce renewable diesel at Strathcona refinery
Strathcona project will leverage hydrogen produced with carbon capture and storage technology to help Canada meet low-carbon fuel standards.
Facility could produce about 20,000 barrels, or 3 million litres of renewable diesel, per day in 2024.
Renewable diesel has the potential to reduce annual CO2 emissions by about 3 million tonnes compared to conventional fuels.
The Government of British Columbia has entered into an agreement with Imperial on this project under Part 3 of its low-carbon fuel legislation.
CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Imperial (TSE:IMO, NYSE American:IMO) is moving forward with plans to construct a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta. This new complex is expected to produce more than 1 billion litres per year of renewable diesel from locally sourced and grown feedstocks. The project is expected to realize about 3 million tonnes per year in emissions reductions in the Canadian transportation sector.
"Imperial is excited to announce our plan to build the largest renewable diesel manufacturing facility in Canada," said Brad Corson, Imperial chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This world-class facility will be a significant value-generating, forward-looking project that brings together our proprietary technologies and refining scale to the benefit of the environment, the economy and local job creation. Today's announcement further demonstrates Imperial's commitment and support for Canada's transition to lower-emission fuels, as well as Canada's ambition to achieve net zero by 2050."
Renewable diesel production will source blue hydrogen (hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and storage) to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional hydrogen production. Approximately 500,000 tonnes of CO2 are expected to be captured annually. The blue hydrogen and biofeedstock will be combined with a proprietary catalyst to produce premium low-carbon diesel fuel.
Imperial is currently in partnership discussions with government and industry, including the Government of Alberta, as well as the Government of British Columbia who have agreed to support this project with an agreement under Part 3 of its low-carbon fuel legislation.
A final investment decision will be based on several factors, including government support and approvals, market conditions and economic competitiveness. The project is expected to create about 600 direct construction jobs, along with hundreds more through investments by our business partners. Renewable diesel production is anticipated to start in 2024.
Third-party studies have shown renewable diesel from various non-petroleum feedstocks can provide life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions reductions of approximately 40 percent to 80 percent compared to petroleum-based diesel. The reduction of 3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases is estimated to be the equivalent to taking more than 650,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: cc on August 28, 2021, 05:14:25 PM
Post by: cc on August 28, 2021, 05:14:25 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on August 28, 2021, 05:46:46 PM
Post by: Anonymous on August 28, 2021, 05:46:46 PM
This intriguing stuff. And it seems govts' are getting on board.
This is the kind of low carbon stuff that is actually renewable(close to it, nothing is completely renewable) and creates jobs at home. Wind turbines and solar panels from China are the furthest thing from renewable/sustainable besides sucking jobs out of Canada.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on August 28, 2021, 09:39:32 PM
Post by: Anonymous on August 28, 2021, 09:39:32 PM
If we want to use different fuels, at least use sources and manufacturing produced here. Importing wind turbines and solar panels from China is economic suicide.
Imperial to produce renewable diesel at Strathcona refineryhttps://news.imperialoil.ca/news-releases/news-releases/2021/Imperial-to-produce-renewable-diesel-at-Strathcona-refinery/default.aspx
Strathcona project will leverage hydrogen produced with carbon capture and storage technology to help Canada meet low-carbon fuel standards.
Facility could produce about 20,000 barrels, or 3 million litres of renewable diesel, per day in 2024.
Renewable diesel has the potential to reduce annual CO2 emissions by about 3 million tonnes compared to conventional fuels.
The Government of British Columbia has entered into an agreement with Imperial on this project under Part 3 of its low-carbon fuel legislation.
CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Imperial (TSE:IMO, NYSE American:IMO) is moving forward with plans to construct a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta. This new complex is expected to produce more than 1 billion litres per year of renewable diesel from locally sourced and grown feedstocks. The project is expected to realize about 3 million tonnes per year in emissions reductions in the Canadian transportation sector.
"Imperial is excited to announce our plan to build the largest renewable diesel manufacturing facility in Canada," said Brad Corson, Imperial chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This world-class facility will be a significant value-generating, forward-looking project that brings together our proprietary technologies and refining scale to the benefit of the environment, the economy and local job creation. Today's announcement further demonstrates Imperial's commitment and support for Canada's transition to lower-emission fuels, as well as Canada's ambition to achieve net zero by 2050."
Renewable diesel production will source blue hydrogen (hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and storage) to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional hydrogen production. Approximately 500,000 tonnes of CO2 are expected to be captured annually. The blue hydrogen and biofeedstock will be combined with a proprietary catalyst to produce premium low-carbon diesel fuel.
Imperial is currently in partnership discussions with government and industry, including the Government of Alberta, as well as the Government of British Columbia who have agreed to support this project with an agreement under Part 3 of its low-carbon fuel legislation.
A final investment decision will be based on several factors, including government support and approvals, market conditions and economic competitiveness. The project is expected to create about 600 direct construction jobs, along with hundreds more through investments by our business partners. Renewable diesel production is anticipated to start in 2024.
Third-party studies have shown renewable diesel from various non-petroleum feedstocks can provide life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions reductions of approximately 40 percent to 80 percent compared to petroleum-based diesel. The reduction of 3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases is estimated to be the equivalent to taking more than 650,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.
Good news for Alberta.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on August 29, 2021, 06:23:12 AM
Post by: Anonymous on August 29, 2021, 06:23:12 AM
If we want to use different fuels, at least use sources and manufacturing produced here. Importing wind turbines and solar panels from China is economic suicide.
Imperial to produce renewable diesel at Strathcona refineryhttps://news.imperialoil.ca/news-releases/news-releases/2021/Imperial-to-produce-renewable-diesel-at-Strathcona-refinery/default.aspx
Strathcona project will leverage hydrogen produced with carbon capture and storage technology to help Canada meet low-carbon fuel standards.
Facility could produce about 20,000 barrels, or 3 million litres of renewable diesel, per day in 2024.
Renewable diesel has the potential to reduce annual CO2 emissions by about 3 million tonnes compared to conventional fuels.
The Government of British Columbia has entered into an agreement with Imperial on this project under Part 3 of its low-carbon fuel legislation.
CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Imperial (TSE:IMO, NYSE American:IMO) is moving forward with plans to construct a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta. This new complex is expected to produce more than 1 billion litres per year of renewable diesel from locally sourced and grown feedstocks. The project is expected to realize about 3 million tonnes per year in emissions reductions in the Canadian transportation sector.
"Imperial is excited to announce our plan to build the largest renewable diesel manufacturing facility in Canada," said Brad Corson, Imperial chairman, president and chief executive officer. "This world-class facility will be a significant value-generating, forward-looking project that brings together our proprietary technologies and refining scale to the benefit of the environment, the economy and local job creation. Today's announcement further demonstrates Imperial's commitment and support for Canada's transition to lower-emission fuels, as well as Canada's ambition to achieve net zero by 2050."
Renewable diesel production will source blue hydrogen (hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and storage) to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions relative to conventional hydrogen production. Approximately 500,000 tonnes of CO2 are expected to be captured annually. The blue hydrogen and biofeedstock will be combined with a proprietary catalyst to produce premium low-carbon diesel fuel.
Imperial is currently in partnership discussions with government and industry, including the Government of Alberta, as well as the Government of British Columbia who have agreed to support this project with an agreement under Part 3 of its low-carbon fuel legislation.
A final investment decision will be based on several factors, including government support and approvals, market conditions and economic competitiveness. The project is expected to create about 600 direct construction jobs, along with hundreds more through investments by our business partners. Renewable diesel production is anticipated to start in 2024.
Third-party studies have shown renewable diesel from various non-petroleum feedstocks can provide life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions reductions of approximately 40 percent to 80 percent compared to petroleum-based diesel. The reduction of 3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases is estimated to be the equivalent to taking more than 650,000 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.
I like it. It makes a lot more sense than Trudeau's carbon tax or Bills C-48 and C-69.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on January 19, 2022, 12:49:08 PM
Post by: Anonymous on January 19, 2022, 12:49:08 PM
CP Rail to 'significantly expand' hydrogen train projectQuote
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP.TO)(CP) has increased its order of fuel cells to "significantly expand" its hydrogen locomotive program, according to Ballard Power (BLDP.TO)(BLDP), the railway's partner on the zero-emissions project.
Vancouver-based Ballard and CP announced a partnership last March to convert diesel locomotives to hydrogen power using fuel cells and batteries to power electric traction motors. Ballard said on Wednesday that CP has requested eight additional 200 kW fuel cell modules, bringing its total to 14, in order to expand production from one to three locomotives expected to be delivered this year.
"In expanding this groundbreaking project, CP is demonstrating its commitment to combating climate change through transformative technology," CP CEO Keith Creel stated in a news release.
CP plans to refine the conversion of diesel-electric powertrains to hydrogen-electric powertrains across three categories of locomotives, which collectively represent the majority of those used in North America.
Ballard said the project's expansion is partially supported by $15 million in funding from Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) as part of its Shovel-Ready Challenge announced late last year.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on February 20, 2022, 07:52:18 PM
Post by: Anonymous on February 20, 2022, 07:52:18 PM
CALGARY — Chase Edgelow is on a mission to acquire vast quantities of garbage.Quote
His company, Vancouver-based EverGen Infrastructure Corp., was founded just two years ago and has already snapped up two organic waste processing facilities in B.C. (the Net Zero Waste compost facility in Abbotsford, and the Sea to Sky Soils facility near Pemberton.) It also has plans to pursue similar acquisitions in Alberta and Quebec at some point in the future.
It's a case of "one man's trash is another man's treasure," because when Edgelow sees mountains of food scraps and agricultural waste, he doesn't see garbage — he sees opportunity.
"We need to deal with our waste, as humans," he said. "We need waste infrastructure. But we also want to decrease carbon emissions. So why would we let the energy from that waste infrastructure go straight into the atmosphere and go to waste?"
Edgelow's company is a renewable energy company that converts organic waste into "Renewable Natural Gas," a non-fossil fuel form of natural gas that has been the subject of a flurry of announcements by Canadian utility companies in recent months. Enbridge Inc., ATCO Energy Solutions, and FortisBC are all actively pursuing opportunities in the space.
According to the World Biogas Association, organic waste from food production, food waste, farming, landfill and wastewater treatment are responsible for about 25 per cent of human-caused global emissions of methane, a harmful greenhouse gas.
As concerns about climate change intensify, there is a growing push globally to use waste to its full potential. Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) proponents believe they can kill two birds with one stone by harnessing the methane from landfill and other forms of waste to create an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional natural gas that can be used for home heating, cooking, even fuelling vehicles.
It's already being done. EverGen already owns Fraser Valley Biogas, which has been in production since 2011 and is Western Canada's first RNG facility. The facility combines anaerobic digesting and biogas upgrading technologies to produce RNG from the manure produced by local dairy farms.
The RNG produced there is contracted to FortisBC, which claims to be the first utility in North America with a renewable natural gas program. In addition to EverGen and Fraser Valley Biogas, FortisBC currently receives RNG from 11 other suppliers, giving the utility access to enough to power about 200,000 homes.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on March 27, 2022, 09:22:20 PM
Post by: Anonymous on March 27, 2022, 09:22:20 PM
HOUSTON, March 23 (Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum (OXY.N) on Wednesday outlined plans to advance its clean energy transition business, including spending between $800 million and $1 billion on a facility to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air.
The proposed facility, the world's largest direct air capture (DAC) project, is set to begin construction in the second half of this year in the Permian basin, the largest U.S. oilfield, with a start in 2024.
The U.S. oil and gas producer is aiming to build a profitable business from providing services and technologies that pull CO2 out of the air and burying it underground to advance government and business climate mitigation goals.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on March 28, 2022, 03:16:09 PM
Post by: Anonymous on March 28, 2022, 03:16:09 PM
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on March 30, 2022, 06:16:11 PM
Post by: Anonymous on March 30, 2022, 06:16:11 PM
Sask. launches strategic plan for nuclear energy generation
Saskatchewan launched a strategic plan for a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) strategic plan in partnership with Ontario, New Brunswick and Alberta.
The plan would make it possible for the province to make the switch to nuclear power down the road when the need transition to zero emission electrical generation arises.
SaskPower said now is the time as SMRs are advancing and have become a better fit for small grids like Saskatchewan's.
In 2019, Saskatchewan signed an agreement with Ontario and New Brunswick toward evaluation of new SMR technology, with Alberta joining in 2021.
If the province decides to go ahead with the construction of an SMR, SaskPower will make the decision to add additional units, such as micro-SMRs, which can be used to power remote communities, mine sites and provide district heating.
The province is capable of having two SMRs, but the focus is currently on one with the goal of it being operational by 2034.
Site selection is also part of the process for this year.
Saskatchewan is one of the world's largest producers of Uranium, and Cameco Corporations intends to be a fuel supplier of choice if the SMR is built.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on April 01, 2022, 10:07:39 PM
Post by: Anonymous on April 01, 2022, 10:07:39 PM
If we can combine Carbon Tech with our already best in the world energy, we'd be able to get ourselves to net-zero without having to destroy our economy and our lives with a costly and dangerous "transition" to supplementary energies.
Title: Re: Canadian company can solve man made climate change, no carbon taxes or useless wind and solar required
Post by: Anonymous on April 06, 2022, 08:25:01 PM
Post by: Anonymous on April 06, 2022, 08:25:01 PM
