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By: Randy Shore

Reflection:

The Simon Fraser University plans to use wood construction waste to power heat and water facilities for its Burnaby campus. The provincial government has provided 4.7 million dollar for this joint venture between SFU, and Corix utilities they are a green energy company that will we responsible and maintain the facilities. This is a great step forward in my opinion because it will reduce SFU's green house emissions by 11,000 tonnes a year stated by premier Christy Clark during the announcement. The plant will turn urban wood waste in to fuel that will generate electricity and thermal heat and will be used to heat the entire campus, the system will generate 36 megawatts of thermal energy and 2 megawatts of electric energy. This utility will provide clean, affordable and reliable heat and hot water to all new buildings to be constructed by UniverCity residential community on Burnaby mountain. The new system will reduce emissions by 60% and UBC also announced a wood waste gasification system the Provincial government provided $5.5 million for the UBC project and the federal government contributed $10.2 million.

Our country is moving forward. This is the very proof of it, we know that we cannot rely on fossil fuels forever and we are making the necessary changes and we are moving forward. You are trying to make a difference and you ask yourself where do you start? In this case you are starting with the generation of tomorrow, setting this system up in universities and showing the students that we have to innovate and change for the better. By doing this SFU has taken a step further and I hope that other universities will follow the example set by SFU and we all work together to make this world a better place, and we started to do that by using our waste to power tomorrow and creating hybrid vehicle and we will continue to move further and I am so relieved that we are  preparing ourselves for tomorrow by using Eco friendly tools and preparing for the day when we wont any fuel left and what we will do them?

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