In schools and on dance floors, building inner resilience
by Cameron Pugh
Feb 07, 2024
4 minutes
1. Canada
A Vancouver neighborhood is harnessing heat from wastewater to sustainably warm buildings. When water from a hot shower or laundry cycle washes down the drain, its excess energy often goes to waste. In the community of False Creek, a heat pump system extracts heat from wastewater and concentrates it to produce scalding hot water.
The heated water is channeled back through a thermal grid of pipes, providing heat for buildings and 6,210 apartments, including the former Olympic Village. The False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility was the first in North America to recover heat from untreated sewage, and the latest expansion will triple
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