Clean Break Podcast and cool company alert
My latest Clean Break podcast through the Toronto Star is available today. I invited Sprott Securities analyst MacMurray Whale back to talk about how some of the alternative energy stocks on his beat are performing — including ATS Automation (Photowatt), Railpower, Carmanah Technologies, Ballard Power, Hydrogenics and Xantrex.
Cool company alert: Here’s a story on MIT’s Technology Review site about an Ottawa-based company called Advanced Biorefinery that has developed a transportable, modular pyrolysis plant that can follow logging operations around and convert their forest waste into a renewable bio oil. By converting forest “slash” on site, rather than trucking it out to a central processing facility, it dramatically improves the economics of using this biowaste as a feedstock for bio oil production. The reason: It’s cheaper to transport highly dense, energy-rich liquid than bulky, low-density slash.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca