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Cogeneration is a great way to increase the efficiency of these systems. It's not that you would buy one to heat your pool, it's that you can heat your pool fro
by kinofcain 12y ago
Cogeneration is a great way to increase the efficiency of these systems. It's not that you would buy one to heat your pool, it's that you can heat your pool from the waste heat of the power generator. The power plant that generates your grid-delivered electricity also generates waste heat, but it's many miles away so that heat is discarded.
A sterling engine isn't the only type of generation that works for co-gen. Most of these micro generation proposals involve some form of waste heat recovery in the form of warm water.
- yxhuvud 12y ago> The power plant that generates your grid-delivered electricity also generates waste heat, but it's many miles away so that heat is discarded. Not necessarily. Some areas have central heating and can use both the electricity and the waste heat.
- lilsunnybee 12y agoThey can't use the waste heat from the actual power generation though, just excess heat from electrical appliance inefficiencies.