Alberta
Alberta 2012 Leadership Debate
On 2012-04-12 (April 12th, 2012) the leaders of Alberta’s political parties faced off for a debate. All except Glenn Taylor for Alberta Party. I’d spoken to Glenn previously, and would have very much liked to have seen him…
LFTR in 5 Minutes – A video about THORIUM created for Elizabeth May and Canadian Greens
LFTR in 5 Minutes starts with a fast-paced summary of why thorium needs to be developed as an energy resource. If you follow gadget, technology or science blogs, then you’ll likely find thorium a fascinating subject. In a…
Alberta Party Leadership Forum 2011 Calgary
Alberta Party’s leadership convention in Calgary featured 4 obviously competent candidates. Chelsea Pratchett was already streaming this event for OpenFile Calgary. However, I had a specific question to ask. I was there taping…
TEDxYYC Video – Kirk Sorensen on Thorium
On April 1st, Kirk Sorensen spoke to a Calgary TEDxYYC audience about the potential of Thorium as an energy source. Kirk’s TEDxYYC video is now available. skipto newwindow sub-topic 0:50 0:50 10 years working at NASA, designing…
Kirk Sorensen in Calgary to speak about Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR)
Kirk Sorensen is coming to Calgary to speak about Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, on March 31st 2011 at Protospace and April 1st at TEDxYYC! In a nutshell, I believe of all Canadian provinces, Alberta has the most to gain by…
COSSFest 2010 – Calgary’s Open Source Software Festival
On April 9th & 10th, Calgary Open Source Software advocates held a 2 day festival to discuss the challenges facing open source software, and promote its adoption. Interested in OSS, I volunteered to create video archives of the…
TEDxYYC – Calgary’s TEDx Videos
I’ve finished editing all the TEDxYYC videos, but they’re not yet indexed on the official TEDxYYC website. Until they do, the 2010 TEDxYYC videos can either be found at YouTube’s TEDxYYC Playlist, or right here (in chronological…
TEDxYYC – Coffee and Leaping Sideways
While helping provide video coverage of TEDxYYC, I learned more about the sociological aspects of coffee houses than I’d bargained for. Did you know that Calgary is on the cutting edge of coffee subculture? No, really. Did you…
Oil Sands Extraction – LFTR in Alberta?
THORIUM REMIX 2009 has been well received, so I’ve cut it down further to 10 minutes and put the subject in a Canadian context: How about using a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor to power oil sands crude extraction? Bill Dickie…
Oil Sands Debate with Elizabeth May
“Is Oil Sands Development Ultimately Irreconcilable with the Environmental Agenda?” was the question posed by Calgary Enterprise Forum. The discussion was held at Calgary Petroleum Club featuring Elizabeth May, Deborah Yedlin…
Calgary’s Low Carbon Future – The Summit
I haven’t had too many opportunities to stream live video since WireCast days at Cambrian House, so Calgary’s Carbon Summit was to be a live test of my new configuration: Dual core MacBook Wireless microphones feeding both the…