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What if you just sold the equipment (+ setup services) to the plants directly? They could turn around and reuse the recovered energy themselves, or sell it on d
by brundolf 6y ago
What if you just sold the equipment (+ setup services) to the plants directly? They could turn around and reuse the recovered energy themselves, or sell it on down the line, but there would be no coordination/mixed-incentives problem.
- sroussey 6y agoProbably best to sell a kit of a few designs, equipment, project management, and financing (avoid capital costs) that shares in income but also has contractual obligations for length of running.
- colechristensen 6y agoThen you're the one taking the cut, still an additional cost that needs to be considered when doing a comparison with digging a hole for geothermal energy.
- ashtonkem 6y agoFactories aren't in the business of generating electricity. They were already willing to throw that heat away normally, why take a bunch of capital that you could invest in the business and use it to buy equipment unrelated to your business when someone else will install and manage the waste-heat system for you and give you a 10% cut for no risk and no outlay on your end?