Posts Tagged ‘biomass’
Sep. 13, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: BDRP, bioenergy, biomass, BRDF, business, campus sustainability, clean technology, combined heat and power, living laboratory, sustainability
Today, the University of British Columbia officially opened a pioneering $34-million clean energy facility, making it Canada’s first university – and one of a few institutions worldwide – to produce both clean heat and electricity for its campus from renewable bioenergy.
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Sep. 11, 2012 | Filed under: Media Advisory, News Feed | Tags: bioenergy, biomass, clean energy, living laboratory, sustainability
Tomorrow, UBC and partners will open a first-of-its-kind clean energy facility, making it Canada’s first university to produce both clean heat and electricity for its campus from renewable bioenergy.
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Mar. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Applied Science, biomass, CIRS, clean energy, Clean Energy Research Centre, commercialisation, engineering, environment, Fraunhofer, greenhouse gas emissions target, hydrogen and biofuels, knowledge transfer, learning, living laboratory, research, sustainability, technology
The University of British Columbia today forged a formal partnership with Germany’s Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest research institution for applied research, to focus on renewable-energy technologies.
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Feb. 18, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: AAAS, AAAS2012, biomass, fish, future of the world's oceans, Nereus, Nippon Foundation, Oracle, sustainability, UBC Fisheries Centre, Villy Christensen
An international team from the Nippon Foundation-University of British Columbia Nereus program has unveiled the first global model of life in the world’s oceans, allowing scientists and policymakers to predict – and show through 3D visualizations – the state of life in the oceans of the future.
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Feb. 16, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: AAAS, AAAS2012, biomass, cookstove, fuel, health, Hisham Zerriffi, Liu Institute, Michael Brauer, respiratory disease, sustainability, UBC, University of British Columbia
Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world’s population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that kill roughly two million people worldwide each year, a problem University of British Columbia researchers are trying to solve.
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