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Admittedly, the biggest news is that they might produce a cogeneration heater for <$10K. A nice thing with cogeneration is that it works best when photovoltaic
by fab13n 12y ago
Admittedly, the biggest news is that they might produce a cogeneration heater for <$10K.
A nice thing with cogeneration is that it works best when photovoltaic panels work the least. My case isn't typical, I live on a boat in Europe. She has panels which could push 5-6kWh/day on average in summer (they don't because our batteries are full long before that), but only 1kWh/day in december. We need 2-3kWh/day to be comfortable. So, we need more than what PV panels provides exactly when we also need to heat the boat, so a cost-effective CHP solution would be great.
Also, I'd like this to run on wood pellets, or diesel fuel: replacing the electrical grid with the natural gaz one is a bad idea, especielly considering that the expected yield of non-conventional extraction methods is continuously and rapidly adjusted down.