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The Alternative Energy Club of UBC.
A Club for us who want to make opportunities realities.
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Welcome back to school for the 2009/2010 academic year!
This year is rigged with opportunities and project developments. We will be holding our first meeting sometime at the end of September.
BC Hydro Power Smart's Invent the Future is an idea
contest. Ideas for conserving energy.
Ideas for producing sustainable energy. Ideas for a sustainable product or
even adopting a sustainable lifestyle change. Sounds easy? It is. Send us a
video or an essay that describes your idea and you could win one of four
$2,500 grand prizes. Contest
runs from September 8 -
Link: http://inventthefuture.ca/
Updated Sept. 9, 2009
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I've added a good deal of info about Alternative Energy Technologies such as wind, geo, solar, etc.. Under Resources
A new page detailing Canadian and American Offset Markets is up. It is under Business.
Ive started a new section on new and emerging energy technologies. These are not available commercially yet. Its under Resources.
Below i've also included a picture detailing UBC's emission's Scopes from Hayes' paper.
Posted on July 3rd, 2009.
Launched June 2009, Canada is now uderway to creatign methodologies for its very own Cap-and-Trade. After a failed attempt at Kyoto Protocol, and after BC and Alberta had already created their own independent systems, Canada has finally made its own Federal system a law. By Fall, 2009 revisions will be made and by 2010 the first projects are expected. Check it out, this is a major business oportunity!
Posted on July 1, 2009
The Future of Transmission for Renewable Energy in BC Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
I was informed by my fellow GRSer Anelyse about this conference. Although I am in Brasil and cannot attend, I thought I'd share this becuase it is an excelent oportunity to meet people at the forefront, and learn about the forefront yourself.
Link: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/686330003
Posted June 18, 2009
Link:
http://climateaction.ubc.ca/2009/05/15/reduce-ubcs-carbon-footprint-and-win-5000Updated Funding Opportunities Section - May 19, 2009
Updated sections: Funding, Constitution, Local industry links - March 26, 2009
Past Event: UBC Climate Visioning Workshop; http://climateaction.ubc.ca/
Graphic outcome of the UBC Climate Visioning process so far.
Hayes has posted his Energy and Climate paper that he did for UBC as a part of the Climate Action Team in 2007-8. In it there is information about the Scopes of UBCs climate action plan among other things.
Here is one of the images in that document
Our group has been split up into three smaller groups for better management and efficiency:
Electric motors group.
AEP competition/waste heat recovery.
Hydrogen supplemental into Pedro's Car.
If you are in the club but are not assigned a group, please contact one of us for more info.
Also sorry about being slow in updating this, but it has been midterm time. As more info becomes compiled up, i will update more.
*The forum works. You can post onto 'General' even if you don't have a login.
About the Club
The Alternative Energy Club (AEC) of UBC is a club for those interested in the prominent topic of alternative energy. Our club acts as an umbrella effectively giving our members institution status for us to pursue projects in a more credible manner. During our first meetings we will decide on what to focus on and then split it up amongst us based on interest. This club will then have smaller groups working on different projects such as electric mobility vehicles, biofuels, fuel cells, geothermal, and/or etc..Projects will be both university based in respects to competitions(EWB-DSW etc..), collaboration (Common Energy, Go beyond, BCCCN etc..), funding(IPF etc..), space usage(SUB), and support from UBC(Alternative Energy Program, Climate Action Team, Sustainability office), as well as public and private in respects of competitions, funding, collaborations etc.. Speakers will be coming in select meetings when quorum is present, and social events will also be happening.
Mission statement:
To inspire and
encourage student involvement in the creation of alternative energy endeavours.
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Last Updated: July 3rd, 2009