FOCAL SYSTEMS
Energy Systems
The world’s migration away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources has created significant opportunities for solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, waste-to-energy, fusion, hydrogen, heat re-use, and heat pump energy technologies, among others. There is not just one ideal energy source – instead, we need to envision and construct an interwoven global energy supply system that eliminates pollution, while being sufficient, convenient, robust, and affordable. Canada can and must play a leading role in both the development and deployment of this essential system, using the best new ideas, new technologies and new components from home and abroad.
Waste Systems
It is senseless to keep manufacturing non-biodegradable and non-recyclable materials and components, leaking or flushing effluents into our waterways, and emitting particulates, chemicals and GHGs into our atmosphere. Our razor-thin environment is not an infinite sewer, and current pollution abatement initiatives are insufficient to keep our environment clean. As with energy, we must envision an interwoven global waste management system that eliminates pollution, while being sufficient, convenient, robust, and affordable. Again, Canada must play an important role in the development and deployment of this system.
Carbon Systems
There has been much technical success regarding CO2 capture from flue gas and/or direct from the atmosphere, plus in-ground sequestration or mineralization. There has also been real R&D success in converting CO2 into high-volume feedstock materials such as methanol, ethanol, ethylene, polymers, baking soda, carbon black, graphene, etc. But scale-up investment has been slower than necessary because, so far, none of these technologies appear to be sufficiently commercially attractive to induce massive investment. Thus the real trigger for the birth of a carbon system will be the development of a commercially attractive CO2 conversion process, and Canada must strive to be a part of this.
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