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LIPA | Clean Energy Initiative | Information and Education - 0 views

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Hans De Keulenaer

Scientists tapping Arctic Ocean methane as potential cleaner energy source - 0 views

  • The researchers, working under the banner of the Aurora Research Institute in Inuvik, N.W.T., plan to conduct 10 days of tests next month on Richards Island and the west side of Mallik Bay. The drill site itself, where a service rig is being set up, is about 65 kilometres west of Tuktoyaktuk and 130 kilometres north of Inuvik. About a kilometre underneath that rig is 113.3 billion cubic metres of methane, frozen in an ice-like state under about 600 metres of permafrost.
Hans De Keulenaer

The Century-Old Renewable You've Never Heard Of - Eos - 1 views

  • President Jimmy Carter signed a bill calling for 10,000 megawatts of OTEC capacity to be up and running by 1999. Then oil prices stabilized, administrations changed, and other than a few demonstration projects, nothing happened.
  • “When people actually have to build stuff that’s got to survive in the ocean and be insured, costs double. Insurance premiums triple,” he said. “And all of a sudden, what looked good when you announced it, you can’t actually get finance to build.”
  • Binger added that many small island nations still haven’t recovered from the debt they incurred during the oil crisis that began in 1979.
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