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>It's amazing how much heat is rejected from electricity generation. Imagine if we could recapture that lost energy! Well there is combined cycle[1] which does
by burger_moon 11y ago
>It's amazing how much heat is rejected from electricity generation. Imagine if we could recapture that lost energy!
Well there is combined cycle[1] which does this with steam and gas turbines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle
- PhantomGremlin 11y agoCombined cycle is very important, but that still only gets you from maybe 35% to maybe 54%. That means that half is still "wasted". It's those pesky laws of thermodynamics. Who was that Carnot guy who's causing us all these problems? What that link also discusses is that using the residual energy for community heating can get you "theoretical efficiency" of 95%. Now we're talking!