The Fitch Fuel Catalyst reduces fuel consumption and emissions. A single application, good for up to 5 years, usually pays for itself in less than 4 months.
Installed on over 100 vehicles and buildings in Nunavut with average fuel reduction of 15%.
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Nunavut plans Incandescent Light Ban...
How many Nunavummiut does it take to change 30,000 light bulbs?
Apparently just one, and his name is the Honorable Ed Picco...
The Nunavut Government may be legislating a ban on Incandescent bulbs that would see CFL type bulbs in all homes and offices across Nunavut by 2010.
In a recent cabinet meeting Energy Minister Ed Picco said the legislation will be introduced when the legislature next sits in May. If passed, the ban would be implemented over three years, replacing about 30,000 incandescent bulbs across the territory with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.
"There is an opportunity for us to try to be on the leading edge, as it were, to reduce greenhouse gases through the elimination of incandescent bulbs, and we believe that we can do that," Picco said Wednesday.
This is good news considering 99.9% of our electricity is generated by oil fired generators. Taking a conservative look of the energy savings for 1,000 buildings and homes in Nunavut (I found an Excel calculator that you can download and use for your own calculations), showed significantly higher savings due to our high electricity rate of around .54 KW/h. The Nunavut global life cycle savings impact could be in the millions of dollars. 1,000 homes changing 5 bulbs each or 5,000 standard 60 watt bulbs replaced with 15 watt CFL type would have an estimated cost of $25,000 (inlcudes install labor), a life cycle savings of $2 million dollars, energy savings in the area of 4.5 million KW/h, and emissions reductions of a whopping 6.3 million lbs of C02. That is at today's electricity rates, which means those numbers could double over the next 5 to 10 years.
Stick that in your lamp...
Of course, there are a few things Nunavut needs to consider regarding the safe handling of these bulbs since they contain mercury. Look here for information on clean up, disposal, and recycling measures. Maybe with some of the savings the government can come up with and supply (free) special disposal bags and lots of reminders on using them in the form of advertising and radio spots.
Personally, I changed 5 of my main lights to the CFL's last year. I'm saving myself and Nunavut about $400.00 in electricity, more then 750 KW/h per year, and over the lifetime of the bulbs will reduce Nunavut emissions by more then 6,000 LBS of C02. Thank you very much...
Today's waste is tomorrow's energy
Welcome to the 21st century where we have technology that will turn everyday garbage and sewage into a fuel called Syngas that burns super clean and can run virtually anything from small space heaters to massive power generating stations. The processes for producing Syngas are also super clean and capable of producing super clean effluent from sewage, up to 98% clean (you can drink that stuff), and other by-products such as gravel for fill and road repair.
Sure Hydro is nice, but at a cost of more then $80,000,000.00, just to help with one community’s needs, I for one would like to see my money being spent on projects and technologies that can help service all Nunavut's community's needs and remove our dependency on fossil fuel once and for all.
Maybe this is a job for Nunavut's ED&T department now that they have their new web site up and running, things over there should run pretty smooth.
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HYDRO for Iqaluit - Pipe dream or reality...
It may be that after all is said and done Iqaluit or Nunavut may never see a Hydro station if a private business is not willing to invest the $80 to $500 million that would be required to install such a facility. According to the policies of government, that would be the only way such a project could be implemented. Wait a minute; let's do some quick math here. The size of plants being considered range from 5MW to 20MW, a 20MW station can provide the power requirements for 10,000 homes yearly. Considering there are currently around 6000 people in Iqaluit and assuming that represents about 2500 homes, either Iqaluit would need to do some growing or the business taking on this project would need to find some way to sell all that extra power. Getting back to the math, at an average power bill per household of around $1800.00 yearly and if all that went directly to the new Hydro company it would take more then 20 years just to pay the initial capitol investment if you installed a $100 million dollar plant. That is without any cost benefit to the consumer, and what exactly is QEC going to do for 20 years because they can't really shut down there operations in Iqaluit can they?
Does it really need to cost that much? Maybe QEC needs to go back to the brainstorming phase and come up with a more feasible long-term plan. Maybe several smaller Hydro stations should be considered allowing several private companies to install their own plants. At least it would keep things competitive. Another option could be that QEC spend a few dollars looking at other alternative methods for generating energy, they may find that Hydro is not the way to go.
If you ask me, and I know you would, my money is on Waste to Energy because especially in Nunavut you will never have a shortage of waste, which means with the right technology, which exists today, you would never have a shortage of energy. What a concept, an endless supply of practically free energy. I wonder how much something like that would be worth to the private business community... can you say cha ching?
Just to see how tough it was to locate information in alternative energy technologies, PECS put together this conceptual waste to energy system from readily available resources and technologies found on the Internet. Very preliminary cost estimates ran well below the $80 million for a startup Hydro plant and as a bonus this system helps solve Nunavut's other problem of waste
overload.
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PECS offers substantial fuel savings and emission reductions for Nunavut
Over the last year, PECS has been researching and testing various products that claim to reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions. Testing is required as many of these products have not been tested in Northern climates and many of the claims have proven less than desirable. About twelve months ago that all changed when we came across a device called the Fitch Fuel Catalyst, that has exceeded every claim. Snow machines tested with the product are showing an amazing 30% reduction in fuel during the with similar reductions in GHG emissions, we also installed the FFC in several homes and increased efficiency by 5% simply from installing the product. We have been tracking the FFC on 6 trucks for the last year and the fuel reduction is consistently over 15%.
Armed with this data PECS approached and received unanimous approval from the Council in the Municipality of Cape Dorset to demonstrate the FFC on one of their water trucks and several of their buildings. At this writing collection of baseline data has begun and we expect to have the full results in a few short months. Details of the testing will be posted here once they are in so make sure you bookmark this site.
Fuel Study is completed, get the results here.
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