Papers and Reports


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Please contact us if you have any questions about anything presented in the files.
We welcome all comments, critique, suggestions and challenges to anything we present.

    Papers and Reports by HME:

  1. The paper: The Challenges of Designing and Building a NetZero Energy Home in a Cold High-Latitude Climate

  2. The presentation: The Challenges of Designing and Building a NetZero Energy Home in a Cold High-Latitude Climate


    3. Papers and Reports by others:

  3. Design and Optimisation of Net Zero Energy Solar Homes

  4. Alberta Electric System Operator Annual Report for 2007 -- see page 31 where they say that 74% of our electricity comes from coal

  5. Recommendations by Alberta's Clean Air Strategic Alliance for a Renewable and Alternative Electrical Energy Framework for Alberta

  6. Recommendations by Alberta's Clean Air Strategic Alliance on electrical efficiency and conservation in Alberta's homes

  7. Clean Air Strategic Alliance report: The efficiency of Alberta's electricity generators, distribution and transmission systems

  8. Clean Air Strategic Alliance report: The electrical energy efficiency of Alberta's homes, businesses and industries

  9. Perras report: Examination of the AEUB Security Measures related to the Alta Link 500 kV Hearing


    10. Reports describing the economic value of the damage to our health care system and our environment caused by the pollution from coal electricity:

  10. What you need to know about energy by The American National Academies

  11. Cost Benefit Analysis -- Replacing Ontario's Coal-Fired Electricity Generation for Ontario's Ministry of Energy

  12. Beyond Coal -- Power, Public Health and the Environment by Ontario's Public Health Association

  13. Full costs of Thermal Power Production by the International Institute for Sustainable Development

  14. Up the Stack -- Coal-Fired Electricity's Toxic Impact by Ontario's Clean Air Alliance

  15. Literature review of emissions and environmental effects of coal electricity by Alberta's Clean Air Strategic Alliance

  16. Health effects associated with coal electricity by Alberta's Clean Air Strategic Alliance

  17. Coal's Assault on Human Health by Physicians for Social Responsibility


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