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IN False Creek, a waterfront community in Vancouver, Canada, the energy being used to heat homes comes from an unlikely source. Instead of a boiler, each building’s hot water arrives in underground pipes from a city-owned plant—a system called district heating. A growing number of municipalities are incorporating this strategy…
Capturing waste heat worldwide could prevent burning nearly 30 million barrels of oil daily or 650 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually.
When it comes to clean energy, the best place to start just might be the toilet.
The official announcement came January 9th that in early February—a dozen years after a quite similar protest helped nationalize the Keystone pipeline fight—protesters will gather for (very civil) civil disobedience outside the Department of Energy, hoping to persuade Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her crew that the time has come to pause the permitting of new LNG export terminals.
In a Vancouver suburb, innovative technology is harnessing heat from wastewater and using it as a renewable energy source to heat homes.