These False Creek Energy Centre smoke stacks are only the tip of the energy iceberg.
While this could easily be mistaken for a public art installation with its led lights and changing colors, what lurks
underground beneath the Cambie Bridge is a state of the art energy recovery system that is a first of its kind in North America.

A district heating system that mines energy from the sewage system via a heat recovery pump,
much like one found in a refrigerator, and concentrates the energy to heat water for the local community.
This system saves about 70% on the energy bill for the local community of False Creek.

The system provides reasonably priced heat that has a small carbon footprint.
Iceland has the largest coverage of district heating systems at 95% with Denmark
coming in second at 60%.

For more information and an underground tour of this facility please see:
http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/blog/waste-heat-how-vancouver-mined-its-sewage-heat-entire-neighbourhood

To see Carol How’s cool image of the same structure…
http://www.pbase.com/image/154032237
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