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There are days when you pinch yourself that things you're involved in could actually make a real difference in society. Today is one of those days.... Could our homes could be heated using disused coal-mine water? Recovering heat from mine water is a proven technology, and could provide a sustainable, secure, and low-carbon heat resource for homes, offices, industry, and agriculture. Ordnance Survey and The Coal Authority have collaborated to understand the demand for heating across Great Britain’s coalfields, with a view to promoting and investigating how water in disused coal mines could be considered as a secure, low-carbon heat source to support former mining communities. Could disused coal mines could be considered as a secure, low-carbon heat source to support former mining communities? We jointly explored the types of buildings and the demand for heating and cooling in coalfield areas with support provided from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and the Geospatial Commission. The initial results showed that there are just over six million homes, and over 300,000 offices and businesses above abandoned coal mines, some of which could ultimately benefit. Hopefully surfacing this insight can go towards opening conversations with local authorities and developers who are looking into decarbonising their heating supply, and inspire them to consider mine water heat as an option. https://ow.ly/wyL450Qww9V #sustainablefuture #decarbonising #lowcarbon #energy #PSGA #SeeABetterPlace

Why do people need #EconomicDevelopment as a priority? And what do #energy, #coal, #naturalgas, #renewables have to do with it? Backstory: When I visited the South African #township of #Langa a few months ago (and posted here: https://lnkd.in/gacC4crx), the guide showed us the unauthorized domiciles, essentially shacks set up in any space available for those who otherwise had no place to go. He lamented that every once in a while they would all get burned up. I'm sad to hear it actually happened over Easter. The guide said these fires usually occurred when people needed heating indoors, or they were "tapping" electricity with an unauthorized connection, etc. and often exacerbated by the high winds of Cape Town. And this is the crux of it. People lose their lives and homes because they don't have basic needs--electricity, heating and underneath that, economic development. Recently, A BBC reporter decried #Guaya's president for #oilandgas development, calling it a #Carbon bomb. https://lnkd.in/dAhNa6AP The same with UK newspaper the Guardian, calling #African development the same. https://lnkd.in/gn7QS5xj But to Africans, development is first and literally the lack is costing lives. #Energy #ThoughtLeader NJ Ayuk JD, MBA. recently said: "Natural gas, if directed toward domestic markets and gas-fired electricity plants, can help South Africa find its way out of its current power crisis. Natural gas can also help ensure energy security and economic growth while the country transitions from #fossilfuels to renewables for #powergeneration. South Africa must move decisively to accelerate its gas agenda and start realizing these benefits. ... South African can and should embrace #solar and #wind, but it also must consider the intermittency issues that come with them. They can’t be counted on to provide electricity around the clock. South Africa does not need more power fluctuations. It needs baseload power sources that can generate dependable power capable of consistently meeting demand. And the only way to get that is from coal and natural gas." https://lnkd.in/dHpZ6uSP We must support the developing world's economic development, including with whatever energy sources actually make sense for them and will get the job done. Let's make better energy decisions. RBAC, Inc. rbac.com Stuart Turley David Blackmon Tom Kirkman Irina Slav Gwede Mantashe https://lnkd.in/dMrUDCAb

The state of the infrastructure that delivers Canada’s water – and the billions needed to inspect, maintain and replace it – has come under scrutiny since a major pipe broke in Calgary and now Montreal. Nearly one-quarter of drinking water pipes in Canada’s largest cities are near the end of their useful life, raising the prospect of enormous repair bills for cash-strapped local governments. Nationally, the average remaining lifespan of the country’s pipes is going down. Nearly one-fifth of the pipes across Canada were installed before 1970 and, according to Statscan, are reaching the end of their useful life. In nine of Canada’s 10 biggest cities – Montreal is not included in the survey – the situation is worse: 23.9 per cent of pipes date to the 1960s or earlier. ALTRA revolutionizes the way old water mains are renewed. Unlike the conventional, costly dig-and-replace procedure, our trenchless technology enables us to renew existing pipes from the inside, making them even stronger than their original state and giving them back 100 years of resiliency. Watch: https://lnkd.in/ewtz7dMU

FACTORS LEADING TO HYDROPLANING AND RECOVERY OPTIONS https://lnkd.in/eArrFB34

FACTORS LEADING TO HYDROPLANING AND RECOVERY OPTIONS https://lnkd.in/eNdB4KHQ

Many of the buildings where hydro dams are servicing provincial residents are heated with resistance heating and domestic hot water. In Quebec alone there are 600,000 homes heated with electricity. Residents could afford this because cost per kwhr is less than 1/2 that of Ontario and 1/4 that of NYS. With shortages, generally come increasing rates. Customers will be pushed towards AAHPs, which don’t help the coincidental peak or gas which will hook people to fossil fuels. Geothermal loops, on the other hand, provide 4-5 times as much heat as they consume and don’t contribute to the peak. They can also operate during high utility loads off batteries, to “disappear” from grid at exactly the right time. On demand 24/7 dispatchable energy 24/7 365… Quebec has woken up to this $750/1000 btus of GSHP thermal energy. Now they need to commit to a 15 year program to attract the companies to deliver it! Third party ownership like solar would address the capital cost, zero down, no loan, just cheap heating, cooling and domestic hot water. Poof the dams magically, for all intents and purposes, get bigger!

Warning to BC residents, when Alberta is pursuing the fight with Federal and controversial LNG power plants. There is also an echoing impact on BC. Hydro is good, but it nonetheless comes with instability. Ideology sometimes needs to have common sense work alongside it. Modern 21st-century society can't dial backward to go off the grid. It is hard to debate with a homebrew five-year-old enlightenment environmentalist.

#Good_News #Flood_Alert🛑❗⚠️ #Part_05 The activities affected by flood were restored and resumed in Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project. In this video, the collapsed portion of Dyke wall, temporary access roads along Dyke wall, and Diversion Tunnel 3 INLET Gate Structure activities restored and continued. #CGGC #MohmandDamHydroPowerProject #Gatestructure

Trans Mountain Pipeline — When will the first leak occur? Today, this week, this month, next year, or this decade? A pipeline leak occurs about once per year per 1,000 km⚠️⛔️⚠️ CBC - Josh McLean: Living with Trans Mountain. After a decade of work, oil is flowing through the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. People who live along the pipeline are looking to the future. Buried underground, it is nearly invisible. The only real giveaways are the white & yellow signs dotting the landscape along the Yellowhead Highway west of Edmonton. Markers that someone could follow all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The Trans Mountain pipeline runs about 1,000 kilometres from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. Along the way, it passes through communities big & small & crosses the territories of dozens of First Nations. When the valves open and the oil starts flowing Wednesday, the newly twinned Trans Mountain pipeline will carry nearly 900,000 barrels of bitumen from producers in Alberta to tanker ships on the coast each and every day. Originally proposed by then-owner Kinder Morgan in 2013 & approved by the National Energy Board 3 years later, the expansion was nearly killed by legal challenges from the B.C. government, the City of Burnaby & environmental groups. By 2018, Kinder Morgan was ready to pull the plug on the project. That’s when the federal government intervened and bought the entire pipeline, with plans to build the expansion and then turn around and sell it. Since then, the cost has skyrocketed, growing from the original estimate of $7.4 billion in 2017 to more than $34 billion in 2024. Trans Mountain blames the overruns on “extraordinary” factors like the pandemic, extreme weather and evolving compliance requirements. As the project dragged on, so did the rallies and protests for and against it. Rallying cries of “no means no” echoed across crowds of protesters in Burnaby carrying signs warning of climate change, risks to watersheds and insufficient Indigenous consultation. In Alberta, calls for economic development were backed by blaring truck horns and chants of “build the pipe.” Workers behind a wire fence look at an open pit. Trans Mountain workers put the finishing touches on the pipeline expansion on April 3 in Blue River, B.C. ( Josh McLean/CBC) At a global energy conference in Houston in March, Trans Mountain’s chief financial officer, Mark Maki, said that the Trans Mountain expansion matters for Canada, and that the increased export capacity will mean better prices for oil producers, more jobs for Canadians and higher tax revenue. “Employees with Trans Mountain, and I’m one of them, we’re happy,” said Maki. ”We’re getting to the end and that’s a reason to be proud. We’re doing something that, I think, is good for the country.” While the shovels are being stowed away and work camps disbanded, a new reality persists for people who live and work with Trans Mountain beneath their feet, regardless of how they feel about the project.

How Much Dam Water is Needed for Fish and Energy?