Tyler Hamilton

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• LED Efficiency Increased by 55% after Studying Fireflies

  Published 31 January 2013 | viewed 7,273 times

  A fond memory of my family’s annual camping weekend at Sandbanks Provincial Park is the late-night walk to the comfort station just before hitting the…

• Climate Change and the Fiscal Cliff Both Lead to the Same Outcome

  Published 04 December 2012 | viewed 14,489 times

  Sitting at a café in Washington, D.C., surrounded by local newspapers and watching a news channel on a wall-mounted television, you’d never know there was…

• Investment in Clean Energy Technology is Only Going in One Direction - Up

  Published 07 August 2012 | viewed 8,033 times

  There was a clever headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion earlier this week that wouldn’t be so humorous if it wasn’t true.“300 Million Without…

• IEA Says more Clean Energy Investment Needed to Avoid the Worst Climate Impacts

  Published 19 June 2012 | viewed 12,102 times

  Climate-change skeptics like to call environmentalists “alarmists” because of their call for urgent action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The skeptics say the science is too…

• Why the Smart Grid is More Than Just Smart Meters

  Published 21 May 2012 | viewed 6,400 times

  Richard Ford doesn’t like the term smart grid. “It means different things to different people,” says the manager of grid solutions at Toronto Hydro. “The…

• New Heat Engine Could Make Geothermal Power Accessible to the World

  Published 23 January 2012 | viewed 9,892 times

  The Geological Survey of Canada put out a research paper in 2010 that concluded the country has enough geothermal heat to power itself many times…

• Waste Management to Convert Entire Fleet to Run on Compressed Natural Gas

  Published 21 January 2012 | viewed 12,578 times

  Natural gas is inexpensive, seemingly plentiful and much cleaner-burning when used as an alternative to diesel fuel in transportation fleets, so it makes sense that…

• How High Commodity Prices could Drive Technological Innovation

  Published 04 January 2012 | viewed 5,049 times

  Has the global economy entered a long period of persistently high, volatile commodity prices?That’s a question asked recently by international consultancy McKinsey & Co., which…

• Are Biofuels the Best Use of Our Limited Land Resources?

  Published 21 December 2011 | viewed 24,578 times

  About seven million tonnes of grain corn was grown in Ontario in 2011, and by year’s end roughly 30 per cent of that is expected…

• Nuclear Energy at a Crossroads

  Published 13 December 2011 | viewed 8,888 times

  For years the nuclear power lobby has muscled its way into international climate negotiations and asserted itself as a critical part of any serious effort…

• Commodity Prices Will Remain High and Volatile for the next 20 Years: McKinsey

  Published 28 November 2011 | viewed 25,311 times

  Just looking at a new article from global consultants McKinsey about the state of world commodities and the outlook looks bleak, to say the least.…

• The Changing face of Wind Power - New Turbine Designs

  Published 22 November 2011 | viewed 10,083 times

  There was a time not so long ago that seeing a single wind turbine spinning in the distance was a novel experience for most people.…

• Is Occupy Wall Street Just the First Step in a Global Anxiety Attack

  Published 24 October 2011 | viewed 6,604 times

  There’s plenty of analysis out there about the Occupy Wall Street movement and its spreading global tentacles. What does it mean? What do the protesters…

• Solar Aircrafts Soon to be in the Sky

  Published 18 October 2011 | viewed 7,394 times

  Mining companies operating in the most remote areas of Canada may want to take notice. Ditto for humanitarian groups looking for better ways to get…

• It’s Getting Hot and Crowded on This Rock

  Published 31 May 2011 | viewed 4,406 times

  The United Nations, which tracks world population growth, has upped its estimates. We know that we’ll pass the seven billion mark sometime this October, but…

• Greenpeace Takes a Swipe at Cloud Computing

  Published 27 May 2011 | viewed 4,942 times

  Greenpeace may spend much of its time protesting our suppliers of electricity — mainly nuclear and coal — but the environmental group is turning its…