America's First Greenhouse Combined Heat & Power Project _ Distributed Power _ GE Power

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I'm Sara Backhouse for future 360
00:00:05.480 00:00:05.490 welcome to the future of farming we're
00:00:08.270 00:00:08.280 at howlings where tomatoes are grown in
00:00:10.310 00:00:10.320 a hundred and twenty-five acres of
00:00:12.110 00:00:12.120 greenhouses powered by clean energy
00:00:14.499 00:00:14.509 situated an hour outside Los Angeles in
00:00:17.240 00:00:17.250 Camarillo California howlings Tomatoes
00:00:19.910 00:00:19.920 fuses nature with technology to produce
00:00:22.310 00:00:22.320 millions of tomatoes every year leading
00:00:24.950 00:00:24.960 the company is extreme innovator and CEO
00:00:27.830 00:00:27.840 Kacey howling it's one thing to have a
00:00:30.919 00:00:30.929 well-run company that makes a profit but
00:00:33.470 00:00:33.480 it's another thing to do it in as little
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00:00:38.750 00:00:38.760 resources as efficiently as we possibly
00:00:40.940 00:00:40.950 can the company's philosophy is firmly
00:00:43.549 00:00:43.559 rooted in pragmatism we do need to use
00:00:46.670 00:00:46.680 energy and we need to use fertilizer we
00:00:49.760 00:00:49.770 need to use water and raw materials so
00:00:52.459 00:00:52.469 what can we do to minimize those uses it
00:00:55.130 00:00:55.140 turns out a lot renewable energy is
00:00:58.010 00:00:58.020 produced by five acres of solar PV s
00:01:00.740 00:01:00.750 rain water is captured and cleaned by a
00:01:03.290 00:01:03.300 reverse osmosis and recirculated back
00:01:05.990 00:01:06.000 into the farm ninety percent of all
00:01:07.880 00:01:07.890 waste is recycled excess heat is
00:01:10.130 00:01:10.140 collected from refrigeration and solar
00:01:11.899 00:01:11.909 thermal and used to heat the greenhouse
00:01:13.609 00:01:13.619 and then this the greenhouse itself
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00:01:22.160 00:01:22.170 of efficiency doesn't end there when you
00:01:24.890 00:01:24.900 look at a greenhouse we use a lot of
00:01:27.679 00:01:27.689 energy for heat and we use a lot of co2
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00:01:34.249 00:01:34.259 largest waste product produced in
00:01:36.530 00:01:36.540 America we ended up buying a
00:01:38.480 00:01:38.490 cogeneration facility made by GE out of
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00:01:43.580 00:01:43.590 costs by a significant portion this is a
00:01:46.840 00:01:46.850 624 gas engine the converts the natural
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00:01:53.480 00:01:53.490 it produces power of 4.4 megawatts for
00:01:56.149 00:01:56.159 the power we take the waste heat from
00:01:58.580 00:01:58.590 the exhaust and the engine oil and we
00:02:01.280 00:02:01.290 use that heat for the greenhouse for
00:02:03.499 00:02:03.509 thermal energy the last thing we trip
00:02:05.719 00:02:05.729 out the carbon dioxide from the exhaust
00:02:07.700 00:02:07.710 and we used as that as a fertilizer for
00:02:11.240 00:02:11.250 the greenhouse the eight point
00:02:12.660 00:02:12.670 megawatts generated can cover the energy
00:02:14.699 00:02:14.709 needs of the farm any excess is fed back
00:02:17.490 00:02:17.500 into the grid this engine is the first
00:02:19.650 00:02:19.660 of its kind in the u.s. at howlings KC
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00:02:27.660 00:02:27.670 the innovations he did with this
00:02:29.100 00:02:29.110 particular engine and the cogeneration I
00:02:30.930 00:02:30.940 said you get about 90% efficiency what
00:02:33.420 00:02:33.430 he did is he looked at the exhaust and
00:02:35.580 00:02:35.590 he actually uses latent heat and he
00:02:38.190 00:02:38.200 captures another extra percentage of
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00:02:48.870 00:02:48.880 an innovator you're pushing the
00:02:50.430 00:02:50.440 boundaries being a leader in innovation
00:02:52.440 00:02:52.450 isn't for the faint-hearted what we have
00:02:55.229 00:02:55.239 done in our operations we've put a
00:02:57.270 00:02:57.280 significant amount of capital at risk by
00:02:59.550 00:02:59.560 believing in a product and pushing it
00:03:01.530 00:03:01.540 forward you've got to have a good cash
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00:03:06.090 00:03:06.100 buy-in from a lot of people to make some
00:03:07.500 00:03:07.510 of these things happen the 450 workers
00:03:10.110 00:03:10.120 at the Camarillo facility share Casey's
00:03:12.600 00:03:12.610 vision for the future to be able to
00:03:14.580 00:03:14.590 power other homes other than just the
00:03:17.940 00:03:17.950 farm to give energy back to the
00:03:19.770 00:03:19.780 community is just I mean who wouldn't
00:03:21.990 00:03:22.000 want to be part of a company that was
00:03:23.940 00:03:23.950 providing such a source of energy so
00:03:26.849 00:03:26.859 what drives a businessman to invest more
00:03:29.069 00:03:29.079 than thirty five million dollars to
00:03:30.900 00:03:30.910 become a clean tech pioneer I have three
00:03:33.599 00:03:33.609 daughters and you start looking and say
00:03:36.390 00:03:36.400 what kind of world are we gonna leave
00:03:37.800 00:03:37.810 them but I think that's a great
00:03:39.900 00:03:39.910 motivational factor to think of what
00:03:42.720 00:03:42.730 we're doing other than just making money
00:03:44.509 00:03:44.519 bursting with innovation and the passion
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00:03:47.580 00:03:47.590 howling shows what's possible for next
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