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America's First Greenhouse Combined Heat & Power Project _ Distributed Power _ GE Power
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00:00:02.600 I'm Sara Backhouse for future 360 00:00:05.48000:00:05.490 welcome to the future of farming we're 00:00:08.27000:00:08.280 at howlings where tomatoes are grown in 00:00:10.31000:00:10.320 a hundred and twenty-five acres of 00:00:12.11000:00:12.120 greenhouses powered by clean energy 00:00:14.49900:00:14.509 situated an hour outside Los Angeles in 00:00:17.24000:00:17.250 Camarillo California howlings Tomatoes 00:00:19.91000:00:19.920 fuses nature with technology to produce 00:00:22.31000:00:22.320 millions of tomatoes every year leading 00:00:24.95000:00:24.960 the company is extreme innovator and CEO 00:00:27.83000:00:27.840 Kacey howling it's one thing to have a 00:00:30.91900:00:30.929 well-run company that makes a profit but 00:00:33.47000:00:33.480 it's another thing to do it in as little 00:00:36.20000:00:36.210 of an environmental impact and user 00:00:38.75000:00:38.760 resources as efficiently as we possibly 00:00:40.94000:00:40.950 can the company's philosophy is firmly 00:00:43.54900:00:43.559 rooted in pragmatism we do need to use 00:00:46.67000:00:46.680 energy and we need to use fertilizer we 00:00:49.76000:00:49.770 need to use water and raw materials so 00:00:52.45900:00:52.469 what can we do to minimize those uses it 00:00:55.13000:00:55.140 turns out a lot renewable energy is 00:00:58.01000:00:58.020 produced by five acres of solar PV s 00:01:00.74000:01:00.750 rain water is captured and cleaned by a 00:01:03.29000:01:03.300 reverse osmosis and recirculated back 00:01:05.99000:01:06.000 into the farm ninety percent of all 00:01:07.88000:01:07.890 waste is recycled excess heat is 00:01:10.13000:01:10.140 collected from refrigeration and solar 00:01:11.89900:01:11.909 thermal and used to heat the greenhouse 00:01:13.60900:01:13.619 and then this the greenhouse itself 00:01:16.82000:01:16.830 which uses twenty four times less land 00:01:19.55000:01:19.560 than field farming but Casey's pursuit 00:01:22.16000:01:22.170 of efficiency doesn't end there when you 00:01:24.89000:01:24.900 look at a greenhouse we use a lot of 00:01:27.67900:01:27.689 energy for heat and we use a lot of co2 00:01:30.38000:01:30.390 and it's kind of frustrating to know 00:01:32.24000:01:32.250 that those same two products are the 00:01:34.24900:01:34.259 largest waste product produced in 00:01:36.53000:01:36.540 America we ended up buying a 00:01:38.48000:01:38.490 cogeneration facility made by GE out of 00:01:41.56900:01:41.579 Austria it's going to reduce our energy 00:01:43.58000:01:43.590 costs by a significant portion this is a 00:01:46.84000:01:46.850 624 gas engine the converts the natural 00:01:49.55000:01:49.560 gas into three things for the greenhouse 00:01:53.48000:01:53.490 it produces power of 4.4 megawatts for 00:01:56.14900:01:56.159 the power we take the waste heat from 00:01:58.58000:01:58.590 the exhaust and the engine oil and we 00:02:01.28000:02:01.290 use that heat for the greenhouse for 00:02:03.49900:02:03.509 thermal energy the last thing we trip 00:02:05.71900:02:05.729 out the carbon dioxide from the exhaust 00:02:07.70000:02:07.710 and we used as that as a fertilizer for 00:02:11.24000:02:11.250 the greenhouse the eight point 00:02:12.66000:02:12.670 megawatts generated can cover the energy 00:02:14.69900:02:14.709 needs of the farm any excess is fed back 00:02:17.49000:02:17.500 into the grid this engine is the first 00:02:19.65000:02:19.660 of its kind in the u.s. at howlings KC 00:02:22.83000:02:22.840 has been able to mine efficiencies above 00:02:25.32000:02:25.330 and beyond its original scope in one of 00:02:27.66000:02:27.670 the innovations he did with this 00:02:29.10000:02:29.110 particular engine and the cogeneration I 00:02:30.93000:02:30.940 said you get about 90% efficiency what 00:02:33.42000:02:33.430 he did is he looked at the exhaust and 00:02:35.58000:02:35.590 he actually uses latent heat and he 00:02:38.19000:02:38.200 captures another extra percentage of 00:02:41.12000:02:41.130 efficiency so we're actually touching 00:02:43.65000:02:43.660 almost 100% theoretically everybody 00:02:46.32000:02:46.330 would say that's not possible but being 00:02:48.87000:02:48.880 an innovator you're pushing the 00:02:50.43000:02:50.440 boundaries being a leader in innovation 00:02:52.44000:02:52.450 isn't for the faint-hearted what we have 00:02:55.22900:02:55.239 done in our operations we've put a 00:02:57.27000:02:57.280 significant amount of capital at risk by 00:02:59.55000:02:59.560 believing in a product and pushing it 00:03:01.53000:03:01.540 forward you've got to have a good cash 00:03:03.78000:03:03.790 flow and you've got to have a lot of 00:03:06.09000:03:06.100 buy-in from a lot of people to make some 00:03:07.50000:03:07.510 of these things happen the 450 workers 00:03:10.11000:03:10.120 at the Camarillo facility share Casey's 00:03:12.60000:03:12.610 vision for the future to be able to 00:03:14.58000:03:14.590 power other homes other than just the 00:03:17.94000:03:17.950 farm to give energy back to the 00:03:19.77000:03:19.780 community is just I mean who wouldn't 00:03:21.99000:03:22.000 want to be part of a company that was 00:03:23.94000:03:23.950 providing such a source of energy so 00:03:26.84900:03:26.859 what drives a businessman to invest more 00:03:29.06900:03:29.079 than thirty five million dollars to 00:03:30.90000:03:30.910 become a clean tech pioneer I have three 00:03:33.59900:03:33.609 daughters and you start looking and say 00:03:36.39000:03:36.400 what kind of world are we gonna leave 00:03:37.80000:03:37.810 them but I think that's a great 00:03:39.90000:03:39.910 motivational factor to think of what 00:03:42.72000:03:42.730 we're doing other than just making money 00:03:44.50900:03:44.519 bursting with innovation and the passion 00:03:46.97900:03:46.989 of its owner 00:03:47.58000:03:47.590 howling shows what's possible for next 00:03:49.97900:03:49.989 generation sustainable farming
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