Environment
House of Cards and Rare Earth Elements
Netflix’s “House of Cards” has characters fighting over a rare earth refinery in China. This is a welcome pop-culture introduction to the challenge facing North American high-tech manufacturing: no domestic supply of HEAVY…
Ontario done with coal
Ontario has burned their last ton of coal. Ontario’s carbon footprint is miniscule. This was pointed out to me by an Australian. I worked with Ben Heard to create the above video, but I’ve never met him. He was about to deliver…
“Th” Thorium Doc Chapters: “Greens”, “MSRE”
Generally I don’t post updates concerning the thorium documentary “Th” here, as it is still a work in progress and my updates are so incremental they’re really only worthy of short tweets. But I think a couple of the chapters…
Thorium Remix 2012 – Semi-Raw Footage
Am hard at work on THORIUM REMIX 2012, the working title of my upcoming thorium documentary. One cost came up I hadn’t prepared for, so I launched a new Kickstarter campaign to cover it. As you can see, yes I will be traveling to…
Kickstarter 2012 THORIUM Documentary
I’ve just launched a campaign to help fund THORIUM REMIX 2012 (a working title), a documentary to help propagate the science behind Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, just as THORIUM REMIX 2011 did last year. If you have never…
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…
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…
Thorium Remix 2009
Update: Further trimmed video’s length to 16 minutes! That’s as brief as I can possibly make it. Kirk Sorensen’s Google Tech Talk “Energy from Thorium” made a big impression on me. But when I recommended it to others, the typical…
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…