/channels/taxonomy/term/2559/all en /channels/channels/event/bdc-deep-tech-fund-info-session-networking-347856 <p>Join us for a presentation by<strong> Thomas Park, </strong>the co-founder and lead partner of the <a href="https://www.bdc.ca/en/bdc-capital/venture-capital/funds/deep-tech-venture-fund">BDC Deep Tech Fund</a>, a VC fund focused on supporting Can</p> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:12:10 +0000 webfull 189091 at /channels /channels/channels/event/10th-annual-john-d-thompson-entrepreneurial-development-seminar-346311 <div><img src="https://se-images.campuslabs.ca/clink/images/65ce28c8-ab95-4544-a96e-e48b3a014719ca509ecb-6ae9-483b-ab27-bacdbd7307e1.png?preset=med-w" width="320" style="float:left; margin-right:15px; margin-bottom:15px" alt="10th Annual John D.</body></html>" /></div> Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:34:49 +0000 webfull 187514 at /channels /channels/channels/event/tisedtalk-climate-change-and-war-ukraine-can-crises-stimulate-transformative-change-343960 <h2>TISEDTalk: Climate Change and the War in Ukraine: Can Crises Stimulate Transformative Change?</h2> <h4>Date: Thursday, December 8th, 2022 | Time: 2:00 pm | Location: Macdonald Engineering Building Rm: 497</h4> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:11:28 +0000 webfull 184973 at /channels /channels/channels/news/seawater-memory-keeper-energy-source-and-pollution-tracking-342845 <h6><img alt="Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia" src="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/seawater-bottled.png" style="width:60%" /><br /><i>Sampling seawater just below the surface of a seagrass bed in Quatsino Sound, British Columbia. Credit: Mike McDermid</i></h6> <h2>What can a bottle of seawater tell you about the fish living below?</h2> Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:46:19 +0000 webfull 183858 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-launches-new-research-centre-innovation-energy-storage-and-conversion-331201 <p><i>Electrification of everything will dramatically increase demand for energy storage and conversion, from advanced batteries to green hydrogen and carbon-free fuels, highlighting need for accelerated innovation efforts</i></p> <p>The climate crisis continues to attract global attention, and rightfully so, as dramatic incidents worldwide repeatedly underscore the growing severity of the situation. Governments are increasingly responsive to the issue, enacting legislations to eventually reduce the rate of global temperature rise.</p> Tue, 25 May 2021 15:28:28 +0000 webfull 170765 at /channels /channels/channels/news/could-metal-particles-be-clean-fuel-future-257172 <p><a href="/newsroom/files/newsroom/bergthorson1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/bergthorson1.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Can you imagine a future where your car is fueled by iron powder instead of gasoline?</p> <p>Metal powders, produced using clean primary energy sources, could provide a more viable long-term replacement for fossil fuels than other widely discussed alternatives, such as hydrogen, biofuels or batteries, according to a study in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal <em>Applied Energy</em>.</p> Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:19:05 +0000 webfull 114506 at /channels /channels/news/quirks-quarks-features-bergthorson-research-257970 <p>Don't miss the January 15, 2016, edition of CBC Radio's <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-jan-16-2016-1.3405565/alternative-energy-enters-the-iron-age-1.3405891" target="_blank">Quirks and Quarks</a> to learn how Prof Jeff Bergthorson and colleagues are finding ways for energy to be stored and transported via iron and other metals, a novel and potentially important method for delivering fossil-fuel-free power.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:31:30 +0000 webfull 115333 at /channels /channels/event/energy-systems-integration-multidisciplinary-global-imperative-low-carbon-society-262913 <h2>An obvious path to a low-carbon economy requires a simultaneous increase in the penetration of variable renewable energy sources and an increase in the efficiency of the energy system overall.</h2> Tue, 11 Apr 2017 14:50:00 +0000 webfull 126985 at /channels