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Gas turbines in power plants can get very complicated when it comes to recovering waste heat. Some of them can hit something over 60% efficiency (vs cars where
by writeslowly 5y ago
Gas turbines in power plants can get very complicated when it comes to recovering waste heat. Some of them can hit something over 60% efficiency (vs cars where I think a typical ICE gets somewhere over 20%?). I think it’s mainly comes down to being worth the additinoal cost and complexity in a large power plant but not so much in an office building or road vehicle.
Wikipedia has a list of some of the devices in use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit