Fossil Fuel Energy Alternatives & Supplements

While there are no large-scale commercial alternatives to fossil fuels yet there are technologies and ideas worthy of investigation.  It is hard to compete commercially with the relatively free availability of what is in the ground so environmentalists point out that the large subsidies used to benefit the oil and gas industry might be enough to help create a commercial alternative.  Realizing that oil and gas resources are finite and that extracting fossil fuel products are becoming more difficult, wasteful and destructive, funds could be invested in researching/improving alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, uranium-free nuclear as well as excess energy storage (pumped storage, liquid storage).   So why do we continue to finance a progressively “dirty” energy industry when we could be investing in “clean” renewable projects?

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Vancouver

Vancouver captures methane at the landfill and use it to heat greenhouses. They even take the warmth that naturally accumulates in sewers and use it to heat homes.

Article: How did Vancouver Get So Green?

Article: Waste heat - How Vancouver mined its sewage to heat an entire neighbourhood

News – Other Fossil Fuel Energy Alternatives & Supplements

Date yy-mm-dd	Posted By	Article Link	Comment
2020-11-05	EcoWatch	Australia to Build Largest Battery in Southern Hemisphere	Olivia Rosane
2019-11-25	CBC News	How an old Goderich salt mine could one day save you money on your hydro bill	Colin Butler
2019-11-22	Climate News Network	Weights show the way to cheap stored power	Paul Brown
2019-06-07	CBC News	Cities are harvesting spoiled food to create new source of natural gas
2019-05-03	SCIfront.com	This Car Is Powered By Salt Water: 760HP, Top Speed 186 MPH, 621 Miles/Tank
2019-01-23	National Observer	Suncor's ethanol business propels it into sustainability rankings	Carl Meyer - ethanol
2019-01-18	Forbes	This Dutch Startup Converts Heat Into Cold Via A Stirling Engine, And Could Just Save The Planet	John Koetsier
2018-01-20	Wired	The Potential Pitfalls of Electric Cars, in 5 Charts	Jack Stewart
2018-01-18	National Observer	Canada preparing to gamble with your ‘higher risk’ clean power ideas	Carl Meyer
2018-01-11	EcoWatch / Nexus Media	Scientists Are Making Carbon Fiber From Plants Instead of Petroleum	Nexus Media
2017-07-17	CBC News	Alberta town hopes to pull new kind of energy from old gas well	Bob Weber
2017-01-21	Toronto Sun	Editorial:  Liberal hot air on coal plants shutdown	- coal
2016-11-30	TheGuardian.com	Two-wheel takeover: bikes outnumber cars for the first time in Copenhagen	Athlyn Cathcart-Keays
2016-06-01	EducateInspireChange.org	For the cost of an iPhone, you can now buy a wind turbine that can power an entire house for lifetime	Sainul Abudheen K Youtube
2016-05-19	Toronto Star	Bay of Fundy to get tidal power turbine next month	The Canadian Press
2016-05-16	OffGridWorld.com	Saltwater Battery Can Power Your Off Grid Home For 10 Years
2016-05-16	TrueActivist.com	This Desk-Size Turbine Is Capable Of Powering An Entire Town	Amanda Froelich
2016-02-17	New Scientist	Test-driving the hydrogen car that makes a little go a long way	Hal Hodson
2016-01-03	Mirror.co.uk	Mechanic invents 'water fuelled' car that runs for less than 2p a litre	Siobhan McFadyen
2015-12-29	TrueActivist.com	These $900 Biogas Units Turn Organic Waste Into Cooking Fuel And Fertilizer	Amanda Froelich
2015-10-08	EcoWatch / Tim Radford, Climate News Network	Scientists Turn Green Algae Into Biofuel at $50 a Barrel	Tim Radford, Climate News Network
2015-05-26	Minds.com	Egyptian teenager figures out how to turn plastic waste into $78 million in biofuel	Alternative World News Network
2015-04-27	Science Alert	Audi has successfully made diesel fuel from carbon dioxide and water	Fiona MacDonald
2015-03-01	EcoWatch / Cole Mellino	Charge Your Smart Phone With 3D-Printed Solar Tree	Cole Mellino
2015-02-21	Inhabitat.com	Portland is now powered by water pipes and flushing toilets	Colin Payne
2015-02-09	Phys.org	Japan-inspired 'water-house' slashes energy needs	Peter Murphy
2015-01-08	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	Can Shoes Generate Renewable Energy with Every Step We Take?	- Taylor Ward
2015-01-06	CNBC	Are volcanoes the energy source of the future?	Clay Dillow @cwdillow
2014-12-02	Globe and Mail	Green energy sector jobs surpass total oil sands employment	Rafal Gerszak
2014-11-21	EcoWatch / Anastasia Pantsios	Revolutionary Poop-Powered Bus Hits UK Roads	Anastasia Pantsios
2014-11-18	Daily Mail (UK)	The bottle that 'makes' water out of THIN AIR: Gadget uses solar energy to collect moisture in a flask as you ride your bike	Sarah Griffiths
2014-11-17	Motherboard	The Coming Blackout Epidemic	Nafeez Ahmed
2014-10-20	EcoWatch / Climate News Network	Can Algae Powe Our World?	Paul Brown
2014-10-03	ThinkProgress.org	People In England Are Harnessing The ‘Power Locked In Poo’ To Fuel Their Homes	Emily Atkin
2014-09-30	Ring of Fire Radio	15-Year-Old Invents Flashlight That Works Off Human Heat	Joshua Schwitzerlett - Canadian student Ann Makosinski
2014-09-10	Government of Ontario	A New Era of Cleaner Air in Ontario	Ministry of Energy - Atikokan Generating Station
2014-09-01	Daily Mail (UK)	The sports car that runs on SALTWATER	Ellie Zolfagharifard
2014-04-13	Good Survivalist	Home Made Air Conditioner	- can be solar powered
2014-04-10	The Guardian	Why US fracking companies are licking their lips over Ukraine	Naomi Klein
2014-03-26	True Activist	Re-fuel Every 100 Years With the New Thorium Car	Amanda Froelich
2014-03-13	Science Dump / Vimeo	Radio powered by moss? / "Moss FM"	Fabienne Felder / P. Bombelli - biophilic technology
2014-03-16	Aware-Ontario	Don MacQuarrie
2013-12-30	Humansarefree.com	Multiple Scientists Confirm Free Energy - The Evidence
2013-10-11	Youtube / Collective Evolution	The Reality of Free Energy & Free Energy Devices (9 mins)	Clips from documentary “Thrive”
2013-12-22	EcoWatch / Climate News Network	U.S. Scientists Convert Algae to Crude Oil in Less Than an Hour	Tim Radford
2013-02-11	Globe and Mai	Europe is hot for this form of renewable energy	Daina Lawrence Hemp Alternative
2013	How Stuff Works	10 Wacky Forms of Alternative Energy	Jennifer Horton and Patrick J. Kiger
2012-08-11	Forbes	Teens Create A Way To Use Urine As Fuel	Matthew de Paula
2012-11-21	Engineering for Change	Ten ways to put human waste to use	Rob Goodier
2010-11-03	Youtube / BBC	Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests – Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention Episode 1 Preview BBC One
2010-06-08	Michael Yon Magazine	Gobar Gas	Michael Yon biogas
2008-06-14	Youtube / NTDTV	Japanese Company Invents Water Fueled Car	Hydrogen
2008-05-08	Youtube / TED	Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world	Paul Stamets

For more information:

AO Renewables News - Introduction

Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) – balances the supply and demand for electricity in Ontario

Other Products:

Hydrogen fuel cells – what are fuel cells?

Cansolair (www.cansolair.com) (video 3mins)

www.solarroadways.com

Distributed Energy Resources 101

“A smart grid combined with better energy storage mechanisms could handle the intermittency and decentralized nature of renewable energy sources in a way that can overwhelm today’s industrial era grids.  But in a slow-growth global economy hell-bent on austerity, the prospects for large government investments in grid resilience look slim.” Nafeez Ahmed, Ph.D.  (source)

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