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Canada Strikes $6 Billion in Natural Gas Off the Coast of Israel

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

By Karin Kloosterman

As a kid who grew up in Canada with natural gas heating, cooking and a natural gas clothes dryer, it’s great news to see that a Canadian company, the Bontan Oil and Gas Company, based in Toronto, has found what could be up to $6 billion dollars worth of natural gas off the [...]

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Tags: Business · Karin Kloosterman

Israel’s Innowattech Harvests Energy from Traffic

October 19th, 2009 · Comments Off

By Karin Kloosterman

Think of the volume of traffic on the 401 or the 404, or all the energy of taxi cabs and cars on the streets of Toronto. It’s just going to waste. But hopefully not for long: an Israeli company Innowattech has found a way to take the mechanical energy created by cars to [...]

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Tags: Environment · Hi-Tech & Innovation

An Israeli Answer To Wasted Energy

August 5th, 2008 · No Comments

By Lauren Kramer
Remember the last time you stayed in a hotel? In all probability, you forgot to turn off the lights when you left the room, and you almost certainly didn’t change the temperature. That means even when your room was unoccupied the hotel’s energy costs for that room were high. Such scenarios, when lights, [...]

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Tags: Business · Environment