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video Verticle windpower turbine a Tech & Science video (www.dailymotion.com)Another alternative to propeller based wind turbines
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Surface area require to power the world with solar (pulse2.com)Nice graphic
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Sault Solar farm program manager setting up shop (www.saultthisweek.com)Don't expect to see any large solar panels rolling into Sault Ste. Marie on transports this spring when construction is expected to begin on the first 20 megawatt phase of a proposed 60 megawatt solar farm.Marc van Gerven, chief marketing and sales officer with Q-Cells North America, said the actual photovoltaic solar panels to be used in the project are roughly one metre by two metres in size.
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4.Silos could heat city - (www.thesudburystar.com)
Greater Sudbury city council will consider turning the iconic, long-ignored Flour Mill silos into a district heating facility.At its regular meeting Wednesday, council will entertain a proposal pitched by the Greater Sudbury Development Corp. to convert the silos into storage tanks, pumping heat energy into area homes and businesses where it will be extracted by heat pumps.
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Winds of change in Ontario Green energy (network.nationalpost.com)In a signing ceremony Thursday for a $7-billion deal with Samsung to build wind and solar facilities, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said: “This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America.”
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Blind River chases sun, profits with solar power plant (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)There is profit to be made if a $50-million solar-power project can ever see the light of day.Slated for Blind River's large industrial park, is a proposed 258-solar array site. It would be capable of producing 10.4 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power about 1,800 homes.
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Solar project in the Sault to get go-ahead (www.thesudburystar.com)The project will include a first-phase 20-megawatt facility valued at about $100 million that could be built on more than one site.Half of that development will include the cost of purchasing the solar panels; the other half construction costs.
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Blind River pursues solar power plant (www.elliotlakestandard.ca)Slated for Blind River's large industrial park, a 168 solar-panel array will be able to produce 10.4 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power about 16,000 homes.
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Temiskaming Crops Coalition (temiskamingcc.blogspot.com)Temiskaming Crops Coalition promotes the progressive profitable production of crops for the region of Temiskaming.
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Heated debate in N.S. over proposal to harvest trees and burn wood for energy (www.canadaeast.com)A debate is brewing between the Nova Scotia government, focus groups and environmentalists over the sustainability of harvesting trees and burning low-grade wood to meet the province's energy needs
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Study measures effects of wind turbines (www.thebarrieexaminer.com)This week, an industry-funded review concluded that the sound coming from wind turbines is not harming the public's health. Dr. David Colby, Chatham-Kent's acting medical officer of health, was one of seven members of a "five star, internationally known" panel that reviewed "substantial" existing scientific literature on wind turbine sound and possible health effects for the Canadian and American wind energy associations.
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12.Solar farm proponents still looking for land to buy/lease - Sault This Week - Ontario, CA (www.saultthisweek.com)
Proponents of a 60 megawatt solar farm in Sault Ste. Marie have held talks with the Sault Airport Development Corporation about leasing property for the second phase of their project.
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People in Sudbury, Ont., are heating their homes with recycled cans from Newfoundland and Labrador.A Sudbury company is selling a solar energy system that's manufactured in Dildo, Newfoundland, about 100 kilometres west of St. John's.
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Biomass conference proceedings at Nipissing Univeristy (www.biomassinnovation.ca)Steve Morrison, Sturgeon Falls Brush & Contracting "Harvesting and Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges"/Chris Young, Ontario Power Generation“Status report on the use of biomass for energy”/Ambrose Raftis, Green Timiskaming Development Corporation“A community model for optimizing Ontario’s Green Energy Act”/Dr. John Nadeau, Nipissing University“What clients are telling us”
Brian Bertrand, Evans Bertrand Hill Wheeler Architects Inc.“Biomass from an architectural perspective”/Lawrence Burndrett, Pressure Vessel Engineering
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Northern Ontario: The Saudi of BioMass! (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Northeastern Ontario is being billed as the 'Saudi Arabia of biomass' and delegates who attended a North Bay conference heard of the opportunities and challenges to heat and power the region with this green crude
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Possible energy project at North Bay sewage plant (www.600ckat.com)The city's Manager of Environmental Services Peter Bullock says there's a proposal on the council table about creating energy at the sewage treatment plant
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Zephyr North Limited - A Wind Energy Resource Assessment Company (www.zephyrnorth.com)Zephyr North is Canada's oldest and most experienced wind resource assessment consultant
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Homeowners describe nightmare of Ontario Hydro red tape (ca.news.yahoo.com)It was all supposed to be so simple. But two years and $65,000 later, Peter and Mary Solotorow have found the road to green living barred by red tape."We just figured going green was the thing to do," Mary says over coffee and home-made butter tarts."But it's not going green. Not the way we thought."
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Dutch Designed Advertising Campaign for Wind Power (www.zeekracht.nl)Windenergie op de Noordzee kan op den duur net zoveel energie leveren als de olie in de Perzische Golf nu. De Noordzee kan de duurzame accu van Europa worden. Dat blijkt uit het Masterplan Zeekracht van het Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), het wereldberoemde architectenbureau van Rem Koolhaas
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Cambrian College Living Building 2nd Annual Tradeshow (www.thesudburystar.com)Northern Ontario homeowners stand to benefit a lot from the introduction of solar panel technology to help supplement home and hot-water heating, says the president of an Aurora company, which sells solar panel products and systems.
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The Justin Street resident spent $20,000 reconstructing his roof this year while investing $80,000 in solar energy panels and a grid-tie" system.Draves installed panels capable of producing 10 kilowatts per hour, the peak generation that can happen for several hours in the afternoon under ideal conditions.
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Peat fuel producer faces uphill battle to join province' s biomass program (www.northernontariobusiness.com)With 30,000 ha under permit in northwestern Ontario, Telford wants to harvest and produce peat pellets from bogs in Upsala where his proposed operation would create as many as 200 jobs.
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Solar Flower Power Tower (www.metaefficient.com)Unlike other solar towers around the world, which are primarily utilitarian towers made of grey galvanized steel, this tower is shaped and colored like a flower. The low cost solar tower is made of recyclable materials, mainly pre-fabricated curved steel sheets, which can be easily assembled and erected in just two days
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Mining the renewable energy market | Sudbury mining staff turn to green energy business (www.northernontariobusiness.com)Young Sudbury entrepreneur Brad Wright has tied a green lining around the cloud of layoffs at Vale Inco, transforming his focus from mining to renewable energy through 3e Solutions, his new company.
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Sudbury Residents review new wind turbine proposal (www.thesudburystar.com)Rick Gagnon, president of Canadian Shield Wind Power, said the company is working on satisfying requirements set out by the Ministry of the Environment for the proposed pilot project. Once the Green Energy Act passes, the company will apply for a contract from the Ontario Power Authority."We are hopeful to install the two machines in the third or fourth quarter of 2010," Gagnon said.
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