Sentences with phrase «about waste heat»

Think about the waste heat from a power station, in complete isolation from the rest of the processes involved.

Same with the article I posted in another thread about waste heat recycling.

Not exact matches

If you're worried about wasting precious pumped breast milk, just heat up a small amount, like a couple of ounces at a time.

A new study offers some potential clues about the role of cooling towers, the equipment that expels waste heat from buildings» air conditioning or other systems.

Unlike current silicon - based electronics, which shed most of the energy they consume as waste heat, the future is all about low - power computing.

About 70 percent of all the energy generated in the world is wasted as heat, said Dimitris Niarchos of the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos in Athens, Greece.

«Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5 percent of it is recycled and 7.7 percent is combusted in waste - to - energy facilities, which create electricity or heat from garbage.

Because of the compression limitation required to prevent «engine knock», a typical gasoline engine can only deliver about 25 % efficiency — only 25 % of the BTU's in a gallon of gasoline are converted to mechanical energy that turns the wheels of the car, the other 75 % is lost in waste heat.

I don't know a thing about microsite issues like multipath, waste heat, evapotranspiration, and wind shelter.

Douglas Wise # 331 — That's very interesting information about the new generation (4th) of nuclear power, which can run on waste heat.

Greenhouse warming is adding about 100 times more heat to our climate than waste heat.

With its long coastline, many coastal power plants, and need for more water, California is a good place for this use of waste heat, and the last I read the plans are in for about 20 desalination plants.

The idea of capturing waste heat for other purposes is well known and very green, but what about when the waste heat is derived from burning the dead?

UPDATE 27 July: there is some confusion about the term «waste heat».

From what I've read, Fuel cells run on nat gas are about 50 % efficient and approach 80 % if hot water generation is included using waste heat.

how about using the waste heat from cooling systems and exhausts for something?

Running a steam turbine requires more heat than about 90 % of industrial processes waste.

I do go on about thermal bridging, how our balconies are like radiator fins that waste a huge amount of heat, lead to cracking and mold, and generally uncomfortable spaces.

I recently wrote about a technology that aims to capture the waste heat from power plant and vehicle combustion with the potential to power 11.4 million U.S. homes and small scale applications like heat exchangers in showers have become more popular.

Think about dashboard technologies, biodegradable or 100 % recyclable products, modular construction, green roofs, localized heat and power generation, LEED requirements and limitations, zero - waste, gray water and water capture, non-construction re-construction, daylighting, air quality, climate change requirements, solar, and cradle to cradle design.

A chief complaint about incandescent light bulbs is that they waste so much electricity through heat.

In fact, they incinerate about 50 percent of their waste to make heat and energy.