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Francina Sole-Mauri of Harvest Power poses outside their 1-megawatt cogeneration power plant in Richmond BC. The micro powerplant is fueled by methane from digested organic waste.
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Francina Sole-Mauri general manager of Harvest Power.
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Harvest Power's 1 megawatt cogeneration power plant and digesters produce electrcity from food and organic waste.
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Geoff Hill Manager of Composting stands at the junction where green yard waste goes to composting and food waste goes to produce biogas.
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Geoff Hill is head of composting at Harvest Power. He is standing where green waste, yard waste and brush is dropped off to be composted at Harvest Power's Richmond BC operation.
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Harvest Power has about 40 acres of compost operations, which don't really smell that bad, but gulls love it.
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A customer picks up a load of compost at Harvest Power which sells it for about $20/tonne. The compost is used in landscaping.
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Harvest Power with mulch in the foreground, then compost, then Richmond BC and finally BC's beautiful mountains.
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Harvest Power makes compost our of 200,000 tonnes of waste each year.
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Harvest Power holds regular tours for people who are curious about the very large, 16-hectare composting and energy production facility.
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A tour looks at Harvest Power's composting operations that cover 40 acres of land in Richmond BC.
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Front end loaders with out-sized buckets move the composting materials through the stages in Richmond BC.
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A loader with a giant bucket moves compost through the various stages at Harvest Power's 40 acre site in Richmond, BC.
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An organic waste hauler drops off a load into Harvest Power's Energy Garden where waste is turned into biogas in Richmond BC.
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Incoming food and organic waste at the entrance to Harvest Power's energy garden where waste is fed into digesters to make biogas.
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Geoff Hill of Harvest Power shows off some high quality turf blend compost. Harvest Power in Richmond BC processes 200,000 tonnes of food and organic waste per year turning it into compost and electricity.
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Geoff Hill shows off some turf blend (50% compost and 50% river sand) compost at Harvest Power's operation in Richmond, BC.
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Two large diegesters at Harvest Power take in hydrolysate, an organic slurry from organic waste that produces bio gas in an anerobic (oxygen free) environment.
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Harvest Power receives food and organic waste from 13 surrounding municipalities and commercial haulers as well.
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There’s electricity in that there yucky stuff. About 40,000 tonnes of food and organic waste enter the energy garden where it is fed into a digester to produce methane and electricity.
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The big gooey picture. A load of food waste is loaded into a shredder and mixed with yard waste to produce biogas.
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The days of landfilling organic waste are slowly coming to a close as operations like Harvest Power's in Richmond BC make it possible to turn food and organics into compost and electricity.
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Some yard waste is added to the food waste to optimize the production of biogas in Harvest Power's energy garden.
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Not so stinky. Standing on the tipping floor where food and organic waste is dumped is not as hard on the nose as you might think. Indeed the production of biogas takes the methane out and generates electricity with it.
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A worker closes the air tight doors to one of the nine tunnels where the anerobic digestation process begins at Harvest Power.
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Francina Sole-Mauri in between two giant methane producing digesters at Harvest Power in Richmond BC.
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A Bald Eagle one of the many hanging out at Harvest Power's integrated composting-energy facility.