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Neighbour helps extinguish flames before fire department arrives
14 WEEK FOCUSES ON VICTIMS OF CRIME Victims share their experience and how crime has affected their life
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TRACK ATHLETES TRAIN FOR NEW SEASON
The Hope Mustangs have about 30 members on the team this year
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The rain on Tuesday didn’t deter Hope Communities in Bloom volunteers Marg Emory (left), Victor Smith, and John and Beverly (not pictured) Mason from weeding and trimming the berm near the junction of Highway 1 and Old Hope Princeton Way on Tuesday. The group has been out this week getting the downtown area ready for spring planting.
Kite system testing in local waters Jessica Peters Black Press
In the mid-1700s, Benjamin Franklin famously used kites to advance science, proving that lightning was indeed an electrical force. Now, kites are being used to prove that power doesn’t have to be pulled from the ground, and they don’t have to rely on unstable wind. Instead, power is being harnessed from the motion of fast running water. A Vancouver-based clean technology startup company is developing a sustainable, consistent device that works
just under the water surface, spinning and creating enough power to run 30 homes. And they’re testing it in the Fraser River, near Laidlaw. The HydroKite is a hydrokinetic device that resembles an airplane on its side. Created by HydroRun Technologies over the last two years, it’s making waves in the clean energy field. It was recently featured in an article in the Vancouver Sun and was popular at the Globe 2014 trade show in March. “We need to find better ways to produce power,” said Joel Atwater,
founder of HydroRun. “It has to be green going forward, for the environment but also economically.” There are three classifications of hydrokinetic power, he said. The first is large hydro, which is what most of the province is powered by through BC Hydro and other large providers. Large hydro is created by flooding valleys to create a reservoir. Then there are run of river projects, such as those in the waterways at the north end of Harrison Lake, near Port Douglas. While generally promoted as greener alternatives to hydro dam projects, they change the
watercourse as water flows through a power house. Finally, there are hyperkinetic projects. These, like the HydroKite, sit in the water to produce power. Up until this point, Atwater said, debris in the river has made things difficult and there have been no commercial use. But that’s changing, and quickly. Over the next few months, Atwater and his team will be testing the HydroKite. They chose this end of the Fraser River after searching for suitable launch and test sites. Continued on 3
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