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Re: Fossil fuel use at SFU

No. It is rather pitiful.  There still are a total of 4 level 2 charging stations at SFU. (There are  6 at Capilano U, around 50 at UBC plus 6 level 3).  Here,  there is also a bunch of 110v outlets available for charging in West Mall.

I was told when I inquired pre-covid  that more would be built soon and that SFU was waiting for gov. subsidies.  But there have been, and continue to be, such subsidies and nothing seems to be happening.

Overall, a token effort


MH
On 11/1/2021 11:54 AM, Ronda Arab wrote:
Are there very many electrical charging stations for staff, faculty and students who use electric cars to get to work?
Ronda 

Sent by magic 


On Nov 1, 2021, at 11:53 AM, Craig Scratchley <wcs@sfu.ca> wrote:



Here's one of a number of articles on the subject:


     https://www.bctechnology.com/news/2021/7/8/New-Green-Energy-Biomass-Plant-Powers-up-SFU-Burnaby-&-UniverCity-Drastically-Decreases-Greenhouse-Gas-(GHG)-Emissions.cfm

They were working on this plant for a couple of years perhaps, but the switchover was just this past summer apparently.  If you live in UniverCity, your building might get heating from this plant as well.

Also, I have noticed that facilities services has some electric vehicles, but I couldn't find a fossil/hybrid/electric breakdown in a quick search.  Presumably they are trying to lower the fraction of non-electric vehicles as older vehicles go out of service.  I once read that because it takes a lot of energy and resources to produce a vehicle, there is apparently some environmental argument to allowing a vehicle to live out its useful life.  I never looked into the detailed tradeoffs.

     Craig 
From: Nicky Didicher <didicher@sfu.ca>
Sent: November 1, 2021 11:28:31 AM
To: Simon Watkins; academic-discussion (academic-discussion@sfu.ca)
Subject: Re: Fossil fuel use at SFU
 

Thanks, Simon! Glad to know about the wood scraps. 

Nicky

From: Simon Watkins
Sent: November 1, 2021 11:17:46 AM
To: Nicky Didicher; academic-discussion (academic-discussion@sfu.ca)
Subject: Re: Fossil fuel use at SFU
 

Actually SFU now burns biofuel for its heating, consisting of wood scraps mostly.

They upgraded the heating plant a couple of years ago.

Still true about the cars though


Simon Watkins

Department of Physics

Simon Fraser University

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From: Nicky Didicher <didicher@sfu.ca>
Sent: November 1, 2021 11:05 AM
To: academic-discussion (academic-discussion@sfu.ca)
Subject: Fossil fuel use at SFU
 

While I’m pleased to know that SFU is increasing its efforts to remove invested money from the fossil fuel industry, isn’t our main boiler in the basement of the library (I believe the biggest one at a university in Western Canada) run off diesel? And aren’t the majority of SFU vehicles still gasoline powered?

Nicky


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