Explains that pipes and pressure vessels inside nuclear power plants give off significant
amounts of waste heat, with temperatures reaching up to 55C (131F)- not very comfortable for maintenance workers who are swathed in radiation protection gear and doing repair work.
Ships» generates large
amounts of waste heat - With the Climeon Heat Power system, cruise, ferry and cargo ships can transform that waste heat into clean, sustainable electricity - what was previously a costly liability is instead turned into an asset.
And as chips continue to get smaller, with more circuits packed into smaller spaces,
the amount of wasted heat grows.
This also helps lower
the amount of waste heat put off by the monitor.
According to NEC, in this mode you can lower power consumption and
the amount of wasted heat released into the environment.
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.
The microbes convert the
waste into methane, which can be used to produce commercial
amounts of electricity and
heat.
Diverting just a portion
of the world's food
waste to
waste - to - energy systems could free up large
amounts of landfill space while powering vehicles and
heating homes
Then, the volume flow in the plant can be doubled, utilization
of carbon from biomass will increase to nearly 100 %, and a large
amount of usable
waste heat will be produced by the catalyst (PtG operation).
In the still, cold, evening air, a great cloud
of steam from its eight cooling towers was a reminder
of the colossal
amount of heat our society
wastes.
To improve fuel efficiency, advanced combustion engines are being designed to minimize the
amount of heat wasted in the exhaust.
Just in the U.S., if
waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit
of offsetting the need for the same
amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.
As your azollaculture technology matures and the price comes down, you might end up growing huge
amounts of azolla for fodder, pumping part
of it back into nighttime power, and using your CSP / bio-coal «
waste»
heat for distilling water.
By reusing
waste heat, the total
amount of produced electricity would be sufficient to cover all auxiliary consumption, resulting in substantial savings.
They have two things in common: 1) They receive considerable
amount of anthropogenic
waste heat, and 2) These water bodies can not «cleanse» themselves
of anthropogenic
waste heat dumped into them.
Because our excess
heat is concentrated in what
amounts to point sources, and those point sources are almost invariably located near to the temperature monitoring sites, you may want be a little kinder to Phillip and his opinion that
waste heat accounts for a significant
amount of our «warming» unless you have convincing evidence that the
heat is dissipated so rapidly that its net effect is smaller than our ability to detect.
Both farming and food processing yield huge
amounts of waste matter like food peels, oil and animal matter that can be biologically processed to produce gas that can be used for
heating homes, for generating electricity as well as in a refined form used to power cars.
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.
So my question is, is this total
amount of «
waste»
heat negligible compared with the total solar radiation received by the earth, or is this large enough to play a role in influencing the climate and thus has to be included in the models?
They're clearly relying on people's ignorance
of the laws
of thermodynamics, which mean that whenever
heat is converted to another form
of energy a large
amount will always be
wasted.