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> 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
by 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.