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Instead Chairman Hochberg and the Bank continue to doggedly promote deadly and outdated fossil fuel technology at a time when the rest of the world is investing in the cutting edge, emerging clean energy sector.
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Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.
That means setting standards that encourage the new technologies, such as a promised renewable fuels standard, aimed at encouraging ways to ensure fuel consumers like cars and furnaces produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
The majority of the fuel - cell industry is rooted in the Northeast, but fuel - cell businesses there have only been cooperating for the past decade or so, says Joel M. Rinebold, director of energy initiatives at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, the East Hartford, Conn. - based organization that oversees the cluster.
Papa's comments on Tuesday were a stark contrast to the tone of cautious optimism at the conference, where many executives claimed that data analytics and technology, like machine learning, will improve efficiency in the oil patch and fuel further gains.
Contacted in 2011 by The Tyee, Dr. Carl E. Brown, research manager of Emergencies, Science and Technology Division at Environment Canada confirmed that «a concern with bitumen fuels is their density is quite high and chances are if those materials were spilled into the marine environment, those products might sink.»
We're at a line in the sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead of enriching the few who already have far more than enough, nourish an ideology of cooperation instead of competition, and put the technology to more intelligent uses than convenience and mindless diversion.
The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»
«The radio silence from executives over the last few days has added fuel to the growing Cambridge fire and if this data leak fiasco is left to fester it could take on a life of its own leading to tougher regulatory oversight / chatter,» Daniel Ives, head of technology research at GBH Insights, said in a research note.
Spending on enterprise information technology is set to accelerate, fueled by U.S. corporate tax cuts, global economic gains and a backlog of aging corporate IT systems that need to be replaced, Oracle's Mark Hurd said Monday at an event in New York.
The fast innovation taking place in sales enablement technology has served as rocket fuel and turned this into the movement it's become, adding both efficiency and reach at an exciting pace.
Speaking in a statement, Steven Morrison, senior product owner at Booking.com, said: «At this new dedicated research and learning space, we plan to tap into the region's deep pool of talent to explore how machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as other new and emerging technologies can fuel future innovations in traveat Booking.com, said: «At this new dedicated research and learning space, we plan to tap into the region's deep pool of talent to explore how machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as other new and emerging technologies can fuel future innovations in traveAt this new dedicated research and learning space, we plan to tap into the region's deep pool of talent to explore how machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as other new and emerging technologies can fuel future innovations in travel.
Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel cell power systems for zero - emission vehicles in China.
11: 20 AM — 12:00 PM Executive Panel: Technology Innovation: At the Heart of Business Transformation Business transformation is being fueled by emerging technologies that can support changing customer preferences.
The rapid rate at which the marketing technology landscape is evolving has introduced two new realities for B2B marketers: (1) Organizations that can not adapt quickly and adopt new technologies will be displaced by those that can, and (2) technology - enabled marketing strategies are only as good as the data that fuels them.
Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The remaining funds went towards two companies aimed at reducing humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and so counteracting the problem of climate change: Tesla Motors ($ 70m), a luxury electric car manufacturer that has since expanded to provide energy to homes and businesses through battery technology; and SolarCity ($ 10m) which seeks to offer a cleaner and more affordable energy solution.
The GWE technology involved in the latest installation at CCN is represented in Australia and New Zealand by CST Wastewater Solutions, which installed similar technology at the Bluetongue Brewery in NSW, where it is saving fossil fuel and cutting the brewery's overall energy consumption by about 15 per cent.
MIDTOWN — Using the frustrations fueling the Occupy Wall Street protests as her rallying cry, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a set of initiatives Tuesday aimed at boosting jobs by investing in technology.
The launch of the Buffalo High - Tech Manufacturing Innovation Hub at RiverBend, fueled by the attraction of Silevo and Soraa and the promise of additional corporate partners in the future, further builds the Governor's high - tech Erie Canal and positions Western New York as a nexus for advanced research and manufacturing for clean energy technologies.»
Johanna Wellington, general manager and chief technical officer for GE Fuel Cells, said General Electric is about to launch operations at the pilot facility to develop hybrid fuel cell technolFuel Cells, said General Electric is about to launch operations at the pilot facility to develop hybrid fuel cell technolfuel cell technology.
He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.
Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.
The trend toward transformative research is fueled by nations» efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment, says Robert Frodeman, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, and director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity.
With new technology introduced in the past couple of years to meet upcoming fuel economy standards, drivers of a small handful of the latest Ford, Chevy, GMC, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi models may feel engine hesitation when they goose the accelerator, which is a source of frustration, at minimum, to many drivers.
The design and formation of an atomic - scale bridge between different materials will lead to new and improved physical properties, opening the path to new information technology and energy science applications amongst a myriad of science and engineering possibilities — for example, atoms could move faster at the interface between the materials, enabling better batteries and fuel cells.
Technology moves quickly, said Simon Mui, director of the California Vehicles and Fuels, Energy & Transportation program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The Bush administration and automakers are touting fuel - cell vehicles as a nonpolluting technology, but engineers at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT say the nonpolluting claim is not necessarily true.
Hydrogen seems to be an excellent and clean energy vector, and catalysis is expected to be at the core of the new developing technologies for the production, storage, and burning of hydrogen in fuel cells.
To meet the 2025 target, the company is pushing all its technologies at once, including the Earth Dreams powertrain technology that improves the fuel economy of conventional gasoline vehicles by 10 percent.
The consortium's call to action is based on IEA's analysis of studies by engineers at Aston University in Birmingham, England, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other organizations, and suggests that by 2050 two gigatons of CO2, six billion barrels of oil and $ 600 billion in fuel costs could be saved without radical reengineering, or half of what is consumed and emitted by cars in the European Union today.
Carbon capture is an obvious extended use for fuel cells, said Tony Leo, vice president of application engineering and advanced technology development at FuelCell Energy.
Eventually, he adds, the technology might generate hydrogen at a fueling station or even aboard a vehicle, thus avoiding the expense and hassle of storing and transporting hydrogen gas.
«A low - CO2 fuel will help us to address that remaining portion of the pie,» says David Daggett, technology leader for energy and emissions at Boeing.
New technology converts all kinds of plant waste into usable fuel — and is part of a growing array of technologies aimed at island energy independence
«It's an interesting approach to using the sun for manufacturing and fuel production,» says Ellen Stechel, manager of concentrated solar technologies at Sandia National Laboratories.
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laboratory instrument that can measure how much of the carbon in many carbon - containing materials was derived from fossil fuels.
Moniz sees DOE drive to push development After announcing $ 50 million in funding for advanced transportation technologies at the auto show yesterday, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz underscored the Energy Department's commitment to bringing fuel - cell technology to market.
A recent report by Sandia National Laboratories asks whether hydrogen fuel can be accepted at any of the 70 California gas stations involved in the study, based on a new hydrogen technologies code.
A new biofuels project at Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute of Science and Technology will search for a system to produce fuel from biomass and seawater
Stakeholders have just begun designing the rules, but undoubtedly a debate will emerge over how different alternative fuels and technologies are incentivized, said Therese Langer, transportation program director at the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
Editor's note: This Q&A is a part of a survey conducted by Scientific American of executives at companies engaged in developing and implementing non — fossil fuel energy technologies.
A high - strength steel being developed at Missouri University of Science and Technology could help auto manufacturers in their quest to meet future fuel efficiency requirements.
«The basic idea of lightweighting spacecraft or aircraft is going to use a lot less fuel,» said Frances Arnold, a professor of biochemistry and chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
A key question for policymakers is, which transportation technology cuts total emissions at the lowest cost — batteries or fuel cells?
Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.
Ehsan Khosravi, Ahmad Shariati and Mohammad Reza Khosravi Nikou of the Gas Engineering Department, at the Petroleum University of Technology, in Ahwaz, Iran, explain how economic and environmental concerns regarding petroleum - based fuels has led to increased demand for alternatives.
Pavel Hejzlar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented a ring - shaped configuration for the fuel that boosts the power output of the plant by 50 percent by enabling it to operate more efficiently and at much lower temperatures.
«We need to develop the technologies that enable us to use our fossil fuels in a clean way,» Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told ScientificAmerican.com at the conference.
By 2020, IEA expects photovoltaic technology fitted on residential and commercial buildings to reach «grid parity,» or the point at which solar power is consistently cost - competitive with conventional fossil fuels and nuclear power.