$135 oil forces industry to embrace efficiency
My Clean Break column today takes a look at the rising interest in industrial-scale heat recovery technologies as pulp and paper, food and beverage, biofuel and a range of other companies cope with rising fossil fuel prices. Tim Angus, president and CEO of Ottawa-based Thermal Energy, estimates that a third — up to $1 billion — in oil and gas used in industrial boilers and dryers in Ontario is lost in the form of waste heat. He says it’s possible to capture up to 80 per cent of that heat and redirect it to industrial processes. Alternatively, companies such as Ormat Technologies are helping some industries turn that heat into electricity. I posted about Thermal Energy recently, but this column takes a closer look at the opportunity and why interest in heat recovery technologies is, well, heating up.
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
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Hi Tyler. Your link is to your blog, not your column. Happy Monday.
Stephen
June 24th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Tyler
Have you be reading this blogger, he claims he been talking to Dick Weir about EEstor. This blog he wrote today had some substance, any feedback on it?
http://bariumtitanate.blogspot.com/2008/06/eestors-richard-weir-on-john-mccains.html
June 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
My comment would be that Dick’s reply to the question on the lack of a permitivity announcement was quite pathetic. Another reason to be skeptical.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
I saw the initial blogs from the annonyous EESTOR writer a few days ago as well- I must doubt the veracity of his interview- for a company that has chosen privacy and secrecy, I just don’t see the CEO of this company divulging anything in this manner. And the Interview has not substance- there is nothing there that has not already been divulged or hinted at or guessed.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Oops! …has “no” substance…. ARGH! No wonder I did not finish my degree in Math and English Education;-)