LORINC: The Power of Poop
Vancouver s False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility.
A month from now, the City, Toronto Western Hospital, and an Enwave spin-off called Noventa Energy will unveil one of those alchemy-like projects that transforms a societal cast-off into modern gold.
In this case, the cast-off is all that raw, warm, fast-flowing sewage running through a big old interceptor pipe under Dundas Street. The gold, in turn, is the heat energy that can with some serious engineering interventions be sifted out of the pipe and used to replace about 90% of the natural gas that currently powers the hospital’s physical plant. “It’s not a small amount,” says Fernando Carou, the City’s manager of public energy initiatives.
TORONTO An operation at a Toronto hospital, believed to be the only one of its kind in the world, is helping a Pakistani teen to live a normal life. Muneeb Shahzad was born with a condition called hemifacial microsomia, which means that one side of his face failed to develop normally. A first effort to repair the left side of his jaw as a child failed. The operation in Pakistan, when Shahzad was nine to ten years old, involved using a rib bone to try and fix his underdeveloped left jaw. But instead, the jaw fused, resulting in something called ankylosis.