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A plant in a former salt mine in Goderich, Ont., billed as the world's first emission-free compressed air facility. It can feed 10 megawatts of power into the grid for up to five hours. A smaller demonstration that Flywheels Flywheels (or rotors) spin at very high rates (up to 50,000 revolutions per minute), typically in a vacuum so air friction doesn't slow them down. Power is stored as kinetic energy by using a motor to accelerate the flywheels, and energy can be discharged by reversing the process so the flywheel drives a motor or some other electrical generation device. While this can h...

The Big Picture: Bitcoin's energy consumption Depending on your personal stake in the cryptocurrency, bitcoin has been a source of heady profits or crushing losses, a beacon of enormous potential or profound disappointment. If nothing else, bitcoin's sharp fluctuations in value have been fascinating to watch. One aspect that has received less notice is its environmental impact. The key to bitcoin is the blockchain, which is an open digital ledger of all the transactions worldwide involving bitcoin. It's built on a peer-to-peer network and each new transaction becomes a new block on a chain t...

That's prompted some pet food makers to look to lower-carbon protein sources — including insects. Studies show that producing insect-based food requires far less feed, land and water and generates far fewer greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram than meats such as beef, pork or chicken. That's one of the reasons more and more pet foods containing insect protein are hitting the market. Purina, a brand owned by multinational Nestlé, In Canada, Montreal-based Wilder Harrier started selling dog treats made with cricket protein in 2015 and dog food made with black soldier fly larvae in 2019. It...

In the past five years, the proportion of condos with this type of electric heating has more than doubled to five per cent in Ontario, Reitsma estimates.  Lloyd Jacobs, general manager of FortisBC Alternative Energy Services, which has installed geothermal systems in dozens of multi-residential buildings in B.C., said there is "a huge demand" for alternative heating systems in large buildings that might have been heated by fossil fuels or baseboard heaters in the past. Traditionally, a challenge for geothermal energy is the high cost of digging and installing the borefield — that is, the l...

Last week, Lisa Johnson wrote about the environmental halo around the term natural gas and how its largely positive image might have something to do with its name. Here are some of your responses. Douglas Baker wrote, "Thank you very much for this article. We heated two homes, for 30 years, with natural gas furnaces. We then 'built green' 10 years ago and installed a heat pump instead. But we kept our gas range (I love cooking with gas). Your article has given me very serious pause for thought. I never really thought of natural gas in terms of methane. This needs to be put out there more emp...