Petroleum products in manufacture of plastic could be replaced by energy beets, according to ASBG A research study supported by the federal government is expected to open the doors to a new market that could see beets replacing petroleum products in the manufacture of plastic bottles, polyester, and antifreeze, according to the Alberta Sugar Beet [...]
False Creek Energy Centre a great Vancouver green energy story Troy Media – by David Dodge Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we head into the sewers, pizza in hand, to explore a scheme to bathe the city of Vancouver (or at least one neighborhood) in near-boiling water. No, it’s not another evil scheme [...]
September 17, 2012 By Matt Palmer I have been busy the last few weeks with a number of things, and sadly that has kept me from writing here. Later this week I am heading off to New York for some meetings on my project, and then on October 5th I am off to Cannes for [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H37yNkrw3_4] It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made that [...]
August 29, 2012 By Matt Palmer Bill Gates is working to transform the developing world with a toilet. Before I go into that, I want to offer a little personal context to the story. I made my first trip to Kenya in March of 2006 for the making of my feature documentary “Letters From Litein“. It [...]
June 27, 2012 By Matt Palmer The End is Nigh. The sky is falling. Oh, and oil may not be peaking, yet. This past Monday Andrew Revkin wrote in his NY Times Opinion blog, “A Fresh Look at Oil’s Long Goodbye“, about how the growth of oil production from shale/tight oil plays, particularly in the U.S , [...]
June 14, 2012 By Matt Palmer “It is time to start having grown up conversations.” Dr David Mackay. I first became aware of David Mackay, a professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge, a few years ago when a friend pointed me to his book “Without the Hot Air“. The book, available as a [...]
