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Feasibility Study For Using Wave Energy To Promote Sustainability In Developing Island Communities
No full textThis paper aims to identify the technical, social, environmental, and economic issues would need to be addressed in the implementation of a wave energy conversion facility along the Ilha Grande, Brazil coastline. Currently, the island uses primarily small-scale diesel generators to produce electricity for approximately 7000 inhabitants and up to 20,000 tourists that come year round to enjoy the pristine beaches and the Atlantic rainforest. Diesel power generation is associated with a host of transportation and environmental problems and its widespread use on Ilha Grande is contrary to the island’s green image and status as a federal ecological reserve. Though in its commercial infancy, wave energy conversion (WEC) already can boast less visual impacts than wind power, and greater predictability and power density than both wind and solar power. The latest designs require minimal maintenance and can resist hurricane force winds and wave conditions. However, the costs for WEC facilities are currently higher than competing technologies and the legal framework for issuing permits or concessions is not developed in Latin America. It is essential for the Brazilian government to produce a wave energy conversion development framework to mitigate financial and environmental risk while providing Ilha Grande with reliable, clean, and sustainable energy
International Conference on the Prehistory and Paleoecology of Western North American Arctic and Subarctic
No full textProceedings of the 5th Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference
Brewing Beer - A Study Of Sustainable Opportunities
No full textResearching interdisciplinary literature regarding a brewery’s production practices highlight their energy-‐use and water-‐use and the subsequent environmental burden and increased cost from inefficient use of natural resources. Examining multidisciplinary studies of each stage of beer making stresses the superfluous generation of solid waste, liquid waste, and air emissions and their associated environmental impacts. This report emphasized the major impacts for each stage in beer production and summarized sustainable opportunities that breweries or other manufacturing companies can explore in more detail based on each company’s environmental, social, and economic circumstances
Directions in Archaeology: A Question of Goals
No full textProceedings of the 14th Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conferenc
Technical And Economic Feasibility Of Building A Small Hydro Plant In Two Different Sites In Alberta
No full textHydropower has long been used due to the ease of producing energy via water. However, construction of large dams has negative environmental impacts on wildlife as well as aquatic ecosystems, due to large land requirements to support their development. Small dams present an alternative to limit these known issues, with potential growth of around 77% in Canada alone. This research aims to assess the technical and economic feasibility of building a small hydro facility at two sites, in a pre-determined region of Alberta. Using a simplified Levelized Cost of Energy model for each site, an evaluation will determine which is more ideal to be developed first. Additionally, the environmental benefits of a large hydropower plant compared to a small hydropower plant will be discussed. The results are expected to provide the company currently investigating development at these sites with greater insight on how to proceed with project development plans
Historical Archaeology in Northwestern North America
No full textProceedings of the 4th Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference
Combined Heat And Power Generation (cogeneration) From Bagasse & Fuelwood In The Jamaican Sugar Industry
No full textComparative Analysis Of Lng And Cng In Canadian Transport Sector
No full textCanadian transport sector produces significant air emissions and is a major contributor to green house gas emissions. Canada has the option of using natural gas as transportation fuel. This work is about the two derivatives of natural gas, LNG and CNG, which Canada can look upon in future to reduce emissions to some extent. In this report, four aspects (technical, environmental, economic and socio-political) of each fuel are discussed briefly along with some pros and cons of using these fuels. To confine the scope of this work, upstream process is not included, which is the same for both the fuels. Published articles, journals and some guideline books were consulted to undertake a comparative analysis of LNG and CNG. It was found that CNG has comparatively less risks for investors and is less cost intensive, which can attract investments in future. However, environmentally, it was difficult to predict which of the two energy forms, is better than the other