Episode 3 - Bur Oak Centre for Sustainable Living

Matt and Juliana chat with Lance Johnson, president of Bur Oak Resources Inc., in North Bay, Ontario, about the services and products for Sustainable Living that Bur Oak offers. This includes discussing the basic components of different renewable energy installations - solar, wind, micro hydro, and thermal electric energy; They also discuss aspects of geothermal energy, battery life cycles, and net metering. Lance covers lots of important concepts at a surface level, below are some links if you'd like to further inquire.

1:18 - what does bur oak resources do
2:06 - worst installation
2:20 - what does bur oak do to properly design/install a system
3:56 - easy to integrate multiple sources of energy into a system
4:27 - a typical wind turbine
5:02 - micro hydro systems
7:38 - thermal electric generators
8:26 - why not geothermal installations
9:25 - batteries
10:55 - net metering
13:35 - power factor
14:53 - bur oak contact info

- book “Stand-Alone Solar Energy: Planning, sizing and installation of Stand-alone photovoltaic systems” by Oliver Style

Wind installations:

Micro hydro systems:

Dump loads:

Thermal electric generators:

Batteries -

Power factor:

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Nice video, obviously smart dude. Thanks for sharing.

[offgridgetawaycamp]

The only downside with hydro energy is that it does not work in the winter when everything is frozen.