Special Features
European firms converge on Canada
European firms converge on Canada for Sir Adam Beck hydro project.
The Niagara Tunnel project will see the construction of the largest hard rock tunnel in the world, even wider than the Channel Tunnel, but will it add enough power generation capacity to meet rapidly escalating demand and stave off the looming energy shortfall that Canada is now confronting? PES investigates.
Swamp fever
As corn and sugar biofuel production is criticised for putting food stocks at risk, could oil from algae really solve the energy crisis?
Has a sewage farm just outside the New Zealand city of Blenheim realised a solution to the world's energy shortages? Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, a local start-up, has patented an unique process to extract biofuel from raw sewage, and last year the country's minister for energy, David Parker, roadtested a car run on the oil of microscopic algae.
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