Can trees really save us from climate change? For eons, nature has relied on photosynthesis as a big way to keep carbon dioxide levels from getting out of control. But as we have put more carbon into the air, we’ve also cut down many of the forests we need to suck that carbon up. So …
Power bricks are usually thought of as the transformers that run laptops and other electronic devices. But a research team at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri has just published details of a power brick that actually is a brick. A red house brick to be precise.They’ve found a way to chemically change the internal …
Lithium recycling wasn’t considered important ten years ago when fewer than 60,000 electric vehicles were sold worldwide. But today that number is 2 million and ten years from now it will be over 20 million, not to mention the billions of phones, tablets and other consumer electronics, all of which get their energy from lithium …
Written by: Jose Luis Caceres Background: Fossil fuels have been and continue to be a major source of energy in the mining sector, not only for powering the engines of the heavy equipment and machinery that make the mining processes possible, but also for electricity generation[1]. When it comes to mining, a business as usual …
Mining and Renewables, a win-win and a seeming paradox Read More »
Written by: Jose Luis Caceres In September of 2015 world leaders adopted the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). This historical milestone signified an unprecedented world-wide commitment in the fight to end poverty, inequality and injustice; protect and preserve the environment and tackle climate change. The …
By: Jose Luis Caceres The current context The ‘Albertan advantage’ is a motto that was coined over the years owed to the solid expansion of the oil & gas industry. Despite the fossil-fuel richness of the province, the current economic circumstances owed to the low prices of these commodities might make one wonder if that …
The Albertan ‘turmoil’ and the necessity to move along with the times Read More »
By: Jose Luis Caceres As we advance towards the last few years of the second decade of the 21stcentury, two remarkably important global agreements were made, which aim to transform our world for the better: “The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Global Goals for Sustainable Development)” and the “Paris Climate Agreement”. Aligning the …
By: Jose Luis Caceres As we have seen in parts 1 & 2, hydrogen (H2) can be produced from a variety of sources, such as pure water (H2O) and waste-water / sludge in the form of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The common requirement in both cases, for separating the components of either H2O or H2S is …
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