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Old Sidney fridges face extinction by hydro action

Ancient ari of
building stone
stoves revives

The ancient art of building ener-
gy-efficient stone stoves is enjoy-
ing a revival on Vancouver Island
thanks in part to a fifth generation
Finnish stove builder.

Jarmo Rannankari, 30, a blue-
eyed passionate exponent of the
stone stoves, learned the skill from
his father Untamo who in turn
learned it from his father to whom
it was passed down from Tuomas
Hissa, the first stove builder in the
family. He was a master potter
who lived in Vetlti, Finland, in the
mid 1800’s.

Rannankari’s nine-year-old son
Kayo is already learning the skill
and helped assemble the stove in
the family’s home in the Westem
Communities.

In Finland the stoves are pro-
moted by the government because

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reduce pressure on the nation’s
forests. “In fact, in my mind, the
stoves meet very similar goals to
those of B.C. Hydro’s Power Smart
energy conservation program,”
said Rannankari.

“The environmental concerns
people have today coupled with
worries about the security of fossil
fuels are making people — espe-
cially on Vancouver Island —
think again about this ancient but
efficient technology,” he said.

The Finnish stoves that Rannan-
kari constructs, either from soap-
stone or brick, have two features
that make them efficient. Firstly,

“@ the stone or masonry readily ab-

sorbs heat and disperses it steadily
for long periods. Secondly, it util-

~izes a contraflow principle to

create an intensely hot clean fire
with few emissions.

“It burns at about 90 per cent
efficiency, produces no creosote
and very little ash,” said Rannan-
kari, “because at 1500 to 1800 F
the wood simply changes to gas.”

He added that the stove is de-
signed to support the fire with a
continuous and plentiful supply of
air during the burn cycle. Ninety
per cent of the heat generated from
the fire is stored in the unit’s
masonry or stone, not lost up the
chimney.

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Those old fridges sitting in ma-
ny a Sidney basement and garage
are facing extinction.

B.C. Hydro’s Power Smart cam-
paign introduced to Sidney on
October 1 its Buy-Back program
aimed at eliminating those energy
guzzlers.

Lynn Mace, who is in charge of
the project, says the old fridges,
many of them empty most of the
time, cost their owners a lot of

Lynne Mace of Hydro’s market-
ing staff in Victoria bids a fond
farewell in early November to the
312th energy-guzzling refrigerator
to be junked in Victoria under
Hydro's Buy-Back Power Smart
program. The Buy-Back program,
recently introduced to the Victoria
area, pays residents $50 for ineffi-
cient second refrigerators. Pick up
is free. Aim of the program is to
reduce unnecessary electrical de-
mand. Call 1-800-663-CASH for
more information.

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money in electrical bills and waste
a lot of electricity that Hydro
would like to save. :

She said that since the program
was launched, 298 persons have
junked their second fridges.

~All you have to do if you’re
interested in being paid $50 to get
uid of your inefficient second re-
frigerator is call 1-800-663-
CASH,” she said. ‘‘ Your old fridge
will be picked up free by a local
contractor and if you really do
need a second refrigerator, Hydro
will pay you a rebate of $50 on the
purchase of a new energy-efficient
one.”

Mace said that a new energy-
efficient fridge costs between $45
and $60 to run for a year while
older fridges, often underused, can
easily cost up to $100 a year.

Dave Glancie, a Victoria area
resident who took advantage of the
program, said his second refriger-
ator had been sitting in the base-

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ment for three years and usually
contained only a few cases of beer
or juice.

“It was a definite waste and the
Power Smart offer of $50 spurred
me to action,” he said.

~ We're hoping to eliminate al-
most 6,000 second refrigerators in
the first year which will save
Hydro almost four million kilowatt
hours a year in Victoria,” she said.

The Buy-Back refrigerator pro-
gram is one of more than 24 Hydro
Power Smart conservation pro-
grams which aim, by the year
2000, to be providing annual ener-
gy savings of 2,400 million kilow-
att hours, equivalent to the power
needs of 240,000 B.C. homes.

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Thank you
Saanich
Peninsula
for being
Power
Smart

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B.C. Hydro would like to take this
Opportunity to thank the retailers of the
Saanich Peninsula who are actively
promoting the B.C. Hydro Residential
Power Smart programs.

Local retailers supporting the Power
Smart $20 Water Tank Rebate program
include Butler Bros. Supplies Ltd.,
Macleods and Sidney Home Hardware

in Sidney.

The $50 Energy Efficient Refrigerator
Rebate program is actively supported
by Island Furniture of Sidney.

For residents of the Saanich Peninsula
any of these retailers can answer your
questions regarding Power Smart pro-
grams or call your local B.C. Hydro

office.

Thank you Saanich Peninsula retailers
and residents for supporting B.C. Hy-
dro’s Power Smart programs.

Thank you
British Columbia
for being

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