<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[iQ LOOP Canada]]></title><description><![CDATA[iQ LOOP Canada]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/news</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:52:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.iq-loop.ca/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[What Nepal's Floods Reveal About Grid Concentration Risk]]></title><description><![CDATA[On 26 August 2026, a glacier collapse in Nepal's Langtang region dammed a mountain river with ice and rock. When the temporary dam failed, the surge travelled nearly 100 kilometres downstream, destroying homes, roads, a border highway, and several hydropower stations along the way. ]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/what-nepal-s-floods-reveal-about-grid-concentration-risk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8fe</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:08:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_2636e55fb32b4847927bcf2ce51d1f67~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_848,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[iQ-LOOP at GCXpo 2026 — Visit Us in Ottawa]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that iQ-LOOP will be exhibiting at GCXpo 2026, taking place on September 29, 2026, at Area X.O, Ottawa (Nepean), Ontario. Our full executive and leadership team will be on-site throughout the event. GCXpo, billed as Canada's next-generation technology demonstration showcase, brings together innovators, government delegations, and industry decision-makers across two focus areas — Defence &#38; Dual-Use Technology and Agri-Tech — making it an ideal stage for a UK-founded...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/iq-loop-and-qmx-at-gcxpo-2026-visit-us-in-ottawa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8f3</guid><category><![CDATA[Press]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:39:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_19d4881f9092474ebf2a54c132ab438e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_844,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital Was Never the Constraint]]></title><description><![CDATA[What the Integrity Era of Nature Finance Means for Circular Energy Infrastructure Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. This week's Nature Premium newsletter — Elena Doms and Chris Winter's weekly read on natural capital markets — carried a headline worth sitting with: investors managing over €50 trillion in assets, through the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, have assessed UK nature markets and delivered a verdict. The foundations are there. The capital is ready....]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/capital-was-never-the-constraint</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8ec</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:32:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://video.wixstatic.com/video/11062b_20d4b91da6f2419184613bcfc200da15/480p/mp4/file.mp4" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grid Balancing &#38; Resilient Power]]></title><description><![CDATA[Storing Surplus Renewable Energy in Aluminium — and Releasing It On Demand Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. On a windy day in Scotland, the grid can produce more clean electricity than the country knows what to do with — and pays wind farms to switch off rather than take it. Last year, more than 13% of Britain's potential wind generation was curtailed this way, costing billpayers over £1 billion, according to NESO, Britain's system operator. Its own forecasts put that figure at...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/grid-balancing-resilient-power</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d902</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:17:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_cc11e0c1f3fa4e4ab008ad3fb2a73c02~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coal Is Powering the AI Revolution — And Nobody Put That in the Keynote]]></title><description><![CDATA[Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. Every AI keynote this year has featured the same slide: soaring inference volumes, falling cost-per-token, a roadmap toward some greener, more efficient future. What none of them mention is where the electricity behind those tokens is actually coming from. Increasingly, in the United States, the answer is coal. The number nobody expected to go back up US coal-fired electricity generation rose 13% in 2025, according to the Energy Information...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/coal-is-powering-the-ai-revolution-and-nobody-put-that-in-the-keynote</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8ef</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:14:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_ddf8a665f7054210ac6a27785a70a9a5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Economy Is an Energy System]]></title><description><![CDATA[What physics tells us that mainstream economics forgot Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. Is it feasible for an economy to indefinitely expand on finite resources on our planet? It appears to be the type of inquiry a freshman might have, which a professor could dismiss. A recent dialogue between Nivi Jaswal-Wirtjes [1], and economist Professor Steve Keen [2] places that inquiry at the forefront, with ramifications for individuals engaged in energy, industry, or infrastructure....]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/the-economy-is-an-energy-system</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8ee</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:59:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_2f0f2e9f188843209925e7e48cdb78d5~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What If Electricity Isn't the Thing We Should Be Moving?]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the curious things about Britain is that we can spend weeks complaining about the rain... Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. ...and then, a few months later, find ourselves under a hosepipe ban. It seems ridiculous. After all, the rain didn't disappear. We all remember it rather well. The problem wasn't that Britain ran out of water. The problem was that the water wasn't necessarily where it was needed, when it was needed, or in a form that could easily be delivered. It...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/what-if-electricity-isn-t-the-thing-we-should-be-moving</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8ed</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:46:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_c47441e2028348828ca3af4668d72e4c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advanced Energy Materials Study Validates iQ-LOOP's Aluminium Energy Storage Thesis]]></title><description><![CDATA[2026 A new peer-reviewed paper published in Advanced Energy Materials — authored by researchers at the University of Perugia, AIT Austria, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's Helmholtz Institute Ulm — provides independent scientific validation of the core mechanism behind iQ-LOOP's platform: using aluminium as a circular carrier to store off-peak renewable electricity and release heat and hydrogen on demand. The paper highlights aluminium's exceptional volumetric energy density — 23.5...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/study-validates-iq-loop-aluminium-energy-storage-thesis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8ea</guid><category><![CDATA[Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:33:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_1d7bc67df3924092a7e2470d4dba00ad~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Energy Changes Form, History Changes Course]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every great leap in civilisation has begun with a breakthrough in how we store and move energy. Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. Wood tied settlement to the forest at its doorstep. Coal, moved by rail and by sea, let industry relocate to wherever capital and labour gathered, breaking the old link between power and place. Oil, carried by pipeline and tanker, built the first genuinely global energy market — and much of the last century's geopolitics along with it. The electricity...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/when-energy-changes-form-history-changes-course</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8eb</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_7017067e3baa43069b3b240a30426db1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_900,h_471,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the Grid, Energy Moved as Cargo]]></title><description><![CDATA[For most of human history, energy didn't travel down a wire — it travelled as cargo. Coal, wood, and charcoal were carried to wherever heat or power was needed, then released on arrival. The electrical grid changed that: energy now moves instantly, but only where the wires reach, and only when the wires can carry the load.  iQ-LOOP revives the older idea, with a circular, zero-carbon twist. iQ-LOOP's platform is made up of three components: (1) CREATE, (2) FuelPods and (3) REGEN Renewable...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/before-the-grid-energy-moved-as-cargo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8f4</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:39:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_8c0f3d3296e54973bb03f5c38968af06~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI Boom's Hidden Bottleneck Isn't Only Power. It's Water.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. A LinkedIn post by Prof. Steve Keen circulated widely this week, and it is worth engaging with directly because it identifies a constraint that much of the AI infrastructure conversation still skips past. Every discussion about the limits of the AI buildout eventually arrives at electricity: •      Not enough gigawatts. •      Not enough turbines. •      Not enough grid capacity. •      Not enough time.   That conceptualisation right in some...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/the-ai-boom-s-hidden-bottleneck-isn-t-only-power-it-s-water</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8f9</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:58:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_01e332f7cf784d42983460b7d033a75c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_900,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Economics of Aluminium as an Energy Carrier: What the Data Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Published as part of iQ-LOOP's Insights series. The technical case for aluminium as an energy carrier is well established — the question that determines whether it scales is cost. A growing body of independent techno-economic research is starting to answer it, and the numbers are more encouraging than sceptics might expect. One recent life-cycle and cost analysis found that hydrogen produced via an aluminium-water reaction, using recycled aluminium, waste-heat recovery, and byproduct...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/the-economics-of-aluminium-as-an-energy-carrier-what-the-data-shows</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8f1</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:47:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_97fc30ac60404a22bbef78c3eff64da6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_755,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zero-Carbon Aluminium Is Now Commercial-Scale — Why That Matters for Energy Storage]]></title><description><![CDATA[For aluminium to work as a genuinely clean energy carrier, the production step has to be clean too. Conventional aluminium smelting uses carbon anodes, which are consumed in the electrolysis reaction and released as CO2 — meaning every kilogram of “green” aluminium made this way still carries a real carbon cost from its own production. Inert anode electrolysis solves that problem directly: it replaces the carbon anode with a non-consumable electrode, so the reaction releases oxygen instead of...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/zero-carbon-aluminium-is-now-commercial-scale-why-that-matters-for-energy-storage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d900</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:43:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/19f17ffdf2224bca8f6d05ed99606530.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is a Renewable Metal Energy Carrier — and Why Aluminium Leads the Field]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renewable Metal Energy Carriers, or ReMECs, are metals used as batteries elsewhere in the energy system: charged by absorbing renewable electricity, then discharged on demand to release that energy as heat, power, or hydrogen. The mechanism is straightforward chemistry. A metal oxide is reduced back to pure metal using renewable electricity — the charging step. That metal is then transported and stored, sometimes for months, with essentially no energy loss. When energy is needed, the metal is...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/what-is-a-renewable-metal-energy-carrier-and-why-aluminium-leads-the-field</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8f6</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:40:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_d4987091e5924e4796f0708fe81a8e74~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coherence, Not Just Capacity: What the "Coherence Economy" Means for the Energy Transition]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why closing the loop alone on materials, capital, and power might be the source of the same problem. Hayley Moffiet's latest essay, "The Coherence Economy," offers an argument that energy professionals will recognise despite the fact that it is not about energy at all. She contends that we don't lack ideas, wealth, or technology to develop a better economy; rather, we lack coherence among the components. Capital reward extraction. Even within dispersed structures, governance becomes more...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/what-the-coherence-economy-means-for-the-energy-transition</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8fd</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:15:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f75ebb_6ee526eaafab45b58ee9aa281b747a15~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storing Energy in Aluminium: A Chemical Battery Strategy Aligned with the Kardashev Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduction - Storing Energy in Aluminium Why the next generation of energy storage looks like a bar of metal, not a battery pack. As civilizations climb the Kardashev Scale, the challenge shifts from generating energy to storing it. Harnessing ever greater flows of stellar or planetary power means managing intermittency at a scale no volatile chemical cell can support — the surplus has to be held as dense, inert, stable mass instead. Aluminium is emerging as the leading candidate for that...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/storing-energy-in-aluminium</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d903</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:57:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_0a35bd67920044a09ea44cadc8e6c207~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Need for Platforms Like iQ-LOOP]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every major economy is now confronting the same tension. The demand for firm, clean, deployable energy is rising sharply, while the infrastructure that delivers it — the grid — cannot keep pace. Data centres turn to gas because connections are delayed. Industrial sites stay on diesel and LPG because clean alternatives are too difficult to deploy. Renewable developers curtail output because there is nowhere for surplus power to go. Each of these is the same gap: clean energy exists, but it...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/need-energy-systems-like-loop</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8fa</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:57:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/5ac25bff0f564131b9aab22168398740.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[iQ-LOOP Advances North American Market Entry With Invest Ottawa]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ottawa, Ontario — June 2026 iQ-LOOP's CEO, Daniel Henbest, and Head of Americas, Turgut Abacioglu, completed a week-long market-entry mission to Ottawa, meeting with Invest Ottawa, Kanata North Technology Park, Area X.O, and Natural Resources Canada to lay the groundwork for the company's Canadian operations. The engagement confirmed strong commercial interest in iQ-LOOP's aluminium-based energy storage platform, particularly its ability to deliver dispatchable power during peak-demand...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/iq-loop-advances-north-american-markets</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8fb</guid><category><![CDATA[Press]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:34:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_b052b64c50aa4306a1405aa52c6e84fa~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Economics of iQ-LOOP — Measured Against Diesel and the Alternatives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clean energy systems are not adopted because they are clean. They are adopted because they make commercial sense. iQ-LOOP is designed to compete on the one metric that decides whether a large energy user will engage: the cost of firm, dispatchable power. The benchmark is diesel. For remote sites, backup duty, and peak-demand periods, diesel remains embedded because it is reliable and deployable, despite being costly, carbon-intensive, and exposed to volatile fuel prices. iQ-LOOP's target is...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/the-economics-of-iq-loop</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8ff</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:30:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_921842df6ba749f6990e541308d39d9e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy as a Delivery Problem — and Energy Moved as Material]]></title><description><![CDATA[The energy transition is usually framed as a generation challenge: build more wind, more solar, more clean capacity. But generation is increasingly the part that works. Renewable electricity is abundant — it is simply produced at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or behind grid constraints that take years to relieve. The real problem is delivery. Today, the only ways to move energy are to push electrons through congested networks or to transport compressed hydrogen and fossil fuels, each...]]></description><link>https://www.iq-loop.ca/post/energy-as-a-delivery-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9bd25d3a3de64b7c45d8fc</guid><category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:30:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_bacf6dee1eb3437cbd3c6247713fc623~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Turgut A.</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>