Green Energy Futures:
#1 Best of 2013: Rocket Stove – Ashley Lubyk with a very efficient rocket stove built out of recycled cans that was developed to make much better use of fuels and to help prevent illnesses in the third world.
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#1 Best of 2013: Rocket Stove – Ashley Lybyk with a half built rocket mass heater that he and Rob Avis made to show Green Energy Futures how it works. You can see the wood sticking out of the combustion chamber and the chimney rising above the partially c
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#1 Best of 2013: Rocket Stove – Rob Avis and Ashley Lubyk lower the second pipe over the chimney that fits inside the barrel of this partially constructed rocket stove.
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#1 Best of 2013: Rocket Stove – Ashley Lubyk with a completed rocket mass heater. You can see the barrel which contains the flue gases and the cob bench which acts as giant thermal battery, storing and releasing the heat over time.
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#1 Best of 2013: Rocket Stove – Dancing in the mud is the tried and true method of preparing the cob for constructing a rocket mass heater from sand and clay.
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#2 Best of 2013: Sun Country Highway – Kent Rathwell, CEO of Sun Country Highway makes a level 2 electric car charger that is more technologically advanced that the cars they charge. Rathwell created the world’s longest green highway of electric vehicle c
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#2 Best of 2013: Sun Country Highway – Tourist attraction. Electric car drivers stop at Peavey Marts all over Western Canada for a free charge and customers love checking out the latest EV cars parked at the charging stations right in front of the stores.
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#2 Best of 2013: Sun Country Highway – Doug Anderson CEO of Peavey Mart showing off bird seed in the Sun Country Farms bird seed isle in his Red Deer store. Sun Country Highway founder Kent Rathwell owns Sun Country Farms and his success as an entrepreneu
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#3 Best of 2013: Biogas – James Callaghan with one of the 250 cows that are milked in the Maryland Farms' dairy and biogas farming operation in Lindsay, Ontario.
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#3 Best of 2013: Biogas – James Callaghan outside of the biogas digester that is 20 metres in diameter and produces methane from manure and waste fats, oils and greases.
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#3 Best of 2013: Biogas – James Callaghan outside of the sound-insulated building that contains the V12 engine capable of generating 500 kilowatts of electricity using biogas from manure as a fuel.
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#3 Best of 2013: Biogas – The 6th generation Callaghan men working in the milking barn at Maryland Farms near Lindsay, Ontario. The dairy farm added a 500 kilowatt electricity generator that runs on biogas.
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#4 Best of 2013: Biodiesel – Brian Roberts, president of the Cowichan Biodiesel Co-op stands outside of their facility in Duncan B.C.
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#4 Best of 2013: Biodiesel – People can still drop off their used vegetable oil at the Cowichan Biodiesel Co-op facility in Dunan B.C.
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#4 Best of 2013: Biodiesel – Gary Gale, Managing Director of Cruise Victoria bus lines that runs on clean burning biodiesel fuel supplied by the Cowichan Biodiesel Co-op and operates off the same dock where the cruise lines stop.
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#5 Best of 2013: Netzero – Reza Nasseri CEO of Landmark Homes in their manufacturing plant in Edmonton, Alberta. Nasseri says all new Landmark homes will be net zero ready by 2015.
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#5 Best of 2013: Netzero – Building homes in a climate controlled plant with robots creates 20 per cent improved efficiency in terms of materials.
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#5 Best of 2013: Netzero – One of Landmark Homes secrets is spraying foam insulation in every nook and cranny of the house adding R6.5 to the insulation and very effectively sealing the house.
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#5 Best of 2013: Netzero – Tanya Rumak, sustainability specialist with Landmark Homes shows the on-demand hot water heater and the drain heat recovery coils that are standard equipment in Landmark Homes.
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#6 Best of 2013: Solar T’Souke – T'Sou-ke Chief Gordon Planes amongst a sea of solar modules on the canoe shed on Vancouver Island. For Planes using solar energy is like returning to his roots: “Our people were dependent on the elements that the creator g
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#7 Best of 2013: Nanaimo Energy from Waste – Chris Midgley manager of energy and sustainability for the Regional District of Nanaimo explains how recyclables and compost are separated and collected as valuable resources in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
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#7 Best of 2013: Nanaimo Energy from Waste – Slip sliding away. The gooey mushy, compost waste is collected and made into high quality compost for sale. Nanaimo also makes energy from landfill gas and have even installed a digester to produce biogas at th
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#8 Best of 2013: Car Sharing – John Wycoco Location Manager of Car2Go in Calgary, Alberta demonstrates how easy it is to find a car, swipe his member card to start a car rental. Carsharing appears to be catching on in several Canadian cities.
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#9 Best of 2013: MaRS Cleantech Fund – Tom Rand is an entrepreneur and cleantech buff. He's a senior advisor with the MaRS Clean Tech Practice and a managing partner of the MaRS Cleantech Fund in Toronto, Ontario.
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#10 Best of 2013: Morgan Solar – John Paul Morgan is determined to make a cheaper, more efficient solar module. The idea has already attracted $40 million in investment to Morgan Solar. Their goal is to commercialize a solar tracking concentrated solar sy
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Best of 2013: Grassi Green School – Brian Wityshyn, principal of Lawrence Grassi Middle School in Canmore, Alberta. This energy efficient school is saving more than $200,000 per year on utilities compared to their old school.
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Best of 2013: Distributed Energy – Brent Harris CTO of Sustainable Energy Technologies in the company's testing lab in Calgary, Alberta. Inverters being manufactured by the Calgary company are destined for the German market where solar producers are i
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Best of 2013:Future of Transportation – Kassandra McLean a recent grad of the Alternative Energy Program at NAIT looked at the emissions of electric cars and hybrids and found the Mitsubishi i-MiEV was one of the lowest emission cars on the road. Acco
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Best of 2013: Biomass District Heating – Harry Welling of Biogenics Inc. at the Sherwood Park Biomass District Heating Plant that uses heat from wood waste as the baseload heating system for an entire district of buildings in Sherwood Park, Alberta.