An Electric Deal For Canada and Israel
by Karin Kloosterman, Jerusalem, Israel on 06. 9.06
While Canadians waffle over where to put their crap, a new deal between Ormat Technologies and a private Canadian electric company shows that Israelis are helping Canada get their alternative energy shit together. The USD $29 million deal will translate to three power stations in Canada that will produce electricity from residual heat- the by-product of industrial processes. See story at YNetnews.
According to YNet, the power plants will produce five megawatts each and are scheduled to begin operating by late 2007.
Ormat Technologies is a NASDAQ-traded company and sources say, active in Nevada and California. The company is experienced in developing, manufacturing and marketing environmentally friendly energy converters, recovered energy generation, biomass and solar energy, and geothermal energy derived from volcanic activity. It is also traded at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ("the Boursa") and made a profit of USD 7.9 million in the first quarter of this year.
According to their website, they have been in the business since 1965 and are experts in combining ecology with economy to produce environmentally sound energy systems that make business sense. Their converter is the basis for dozens of geothermal power plants ranging up to over 130 MW.
They produce four types of plants: geothermal, remote power units, recovered energy generation (ie gas turbine exhaust heat and heat from cement production), and biomass fueled powered units.
The geothermal plant, they say, can deliver clean, reliable, and sustainable electricity to power grids on five continents: from Iceland to New Zealand, from California to the Philippines, and from Hawaii to Thailand. Their commercial-scale geothermal plants have been built in areas that would otherwise have been forced to depend on expensive oil imports and environmentally hazardous fossil fuels.
For remote areas, Ormat can build a sealed organic Rankine cycle generating set which contains only one smoothly rotating part, resulting in years of trouble-free operation.
So if you are looking to make your country a little cleaner, be a more responsible factory owner, or are setting up an eco-village on a remote island like TribeWanted, contact Ormat.
Good to see positive things coming out of the region. I heard that Israel is home to the first fully solar powered village in the world, and is the only country that entered the 21st century having planted more trees than it cut down.
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Care:
You know your stuff! I wrote a story some time back about the first solar-powered village and hopefully soon will make a video out of it for you all to see. The solar panels were supplied by a Canadian company, by the way, showing there is lots of good cross-pollination going on between North America and the Middle East.
Karin
I realise we aren't the pinnacle of green-energy nations, but is there any particular reason this article is disparaging/inflammatory toward Canadians and Canada? Maybe Karin Kloosterman wants me to "get my shit together" and "go put my crap" advertising revenue on someone else's blog instead of Gawker's.
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editor note: I think you misunderstood the tongue-in-cheek tone of the post and the reference to Lloyd's previous post about sewage problems in Toronto. btw, Karin Kloosterman is from Canada.
that was a little harshly written-- i mean Mr. Laumer edited my saying something kicked butt (i used the A word and he replaced it with **s)
but even moreso-- yes toronto has a grabage problem (not Canada, but really, everywhere has a grabage problem. tho it's prononced in toronto). but they are also doing something about it. Toronto --as like 12 people commented in your 'tell us about your city' --has an amazing curbside compostables pick-up pilot program with over 90% participation(!!) ad it turns all compostables (including pet litter. ick) into compost + Methane in 14 days... the Tdot also was the first place anywhere to have curbside recycling.
lastly there's no need for a pissing match (israel has many great eco innovations, my favorite company in the world organitech came from technion) but canada has amazing technoloies (the solar panels on the mars rover are from ICP in montreal, almost everybody uses carmana street and airport lights if they use solar) so while its great that theres this back n' forth, the way that was written it was as if finally someone is coming to save the day in Canada. There's thousands of canadians who work tirelessly at greening (and read treehugger) who were probably just a little slighted by this who getting shit together thing.
last thing; that one-part "organic Rankine cycle " cogen system, according to their website; "can use fuels such as natural gas, liquified petroleum gas, kerosene, jet fuel and diesel fuel" niiiice.....
Check out this introduction article on Geothermal power:
Geothermal power