Canada is growing its population by 1.4 to 1.5 million people per year via a robust immigration program and 44% of the people are going to Ontario. 20% of new Canadians go to Alberta, 15% to BC and 13% to Quebec. California’s population peaked 4 years ago at 39.5 million and is now 39 million …
Invest Alberta supports commercialization of Terrestrial Energy’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor with a focus on reducing emissions in the oil and gas, and petrochemical industries. Alberta, along with the provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan, is working to advance small modular reactor (SMR) technologies through an interprovincial memorandum of understanding it joined in April …
Fisheries and aquaculture support the livelihoods of 10 to 12 per cent of the world’s population. Since 1990 employment in the sector has grown at a faster rate than the world’s population and in 2012 provided jobs for some 60 million people. Of these, 84 per cent were employed in Asia, followed by Africa with …
Tesla Motors has a backlog of customers waiting for its Model S sedan. Tesla has ceased production at its assembly plant becauase they are retooling the car factory for the forthcoming launch of its new Model X sport-utility vehicle. SUVs (and crossover models) passed a milestone in May by outselling sedans in the American market …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 219 is up at Hiroshima Syndrome Jim Conca at Forbes – Nuclear-Renewable Mix Is Just What The EPA Ordered The not-for-profit Energy Northwest in WA State is exactly what the EPA’s new carbon rules are supposed to encourage – a diverse mix of non-fossil fuel generating systems that operates over …
China is working on about 3 main high speed rail routes to Europe. Within China most of the high speed routes will be done by 2017. The Lanxin high-speed line will have 31 stations in total. The line is designed to be operated with trains running at speeds up to 300kmph. The travel time between …
Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has begun the process of designing and building a replacement for its ageing Soyuz rocket and space capsule system, with the aim of putting it into operation by 2020. The Russian budget for a new rocket and capsule has been set at 2.1 trillion rubles (£43 billion), according to the …
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a new capacitive desalination technique that could ultimately lower the cost and time of desalinating seawater. – removes salt five to 10 times faster than previous CD systems, and can be further optimized for increased speed. -It also reduces the concentration of the feed up to three times …
Two materials scientists from MIT have shown in simulations that nanoporous graphene can filter salt from water at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than today’s best commercial desalination technology, reverse osmosis (RO). The researchers predict that graphene’s superior water permeability could lead to desalination techniques that require less energy and use …
A new global consensus has been agreed on the key evidence-based interventions that will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to a massive, three-year global study. The study, Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for …
TechCrunch – Bill Gates spoke at a Wired business conference in New York City. Bill spoke about the benefits of nuclear energy, particularly next-generation designs. The backlash [to Fukushima], he thinks, is overblown. “If you compare it to the amount that coal has killed per kilowatt hour,” he points out, “it is way, way less.” …