Sentences with phrase «even waste heat»

The heat source can be solar energy, warm sea water, warm humid air, or even waste heat rejected in a cooling tower.

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«The availability of waste heat is widespread, from industrial processes, to solar heat, and even the heat coming out of vehicles, and it's usually just wasted.»

Without modern sanitation, life would be nightmarish — human and animal waste would fester on the streets along with garbage and food scraps, producing a stench so foul that you'd want to keep your windows closed even in the sweltering heat of summer (for the moment, envision lacking the luxury of air conditioning).

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

That is not much but, given that the average vehicle loses roughly 70 % of the energy supplied to it by its fuel to waste heat and friction, recovering even a small percentage of this with thermoelectric technology would be worthwhile.»

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.

The potential for capturing heat — from power plants, industrial smokestacks and even vehicle tailpipes — and converting it into electricity is huge, allowing heat that is currently wasted to be used to generate power.

I can handle the enthusiastic brutality of the guards, the wasted erections, even the suffocating heat.

Scullin estimates that if even just 5 percent of that waste heat was converted into electricity at the cost of 10 cents per kWh, that's a $ 1 trillion a year industry.

In other, less windy regions lacking kinetic energy, there is still in the air, abundant CAPE (residual solar), existing either naturally (day, evening, summer), or through augmentation by transfer to air from waste heat sources, to produce a virtually inexhaustible supply of electrical energy.

Accountants should show governments the financial as well as human waste of using shoddy materials and designs, even for the short term: many schools are crumbling even without earthquakes, and they are expensive to heat, repair, and replace.

The Nicolas San Juan apartment building by Mexican studio Taller 13 is green wherever you look: it has solar water heating, rainwater collection, proper wall isolation, uses certified wood and non toxic paint, and it even has a waste management system.

The bagels are baked in the morning using the residual heat in the oven from the previous evening's pizza - making; this means that they're essentially baked with waste heat, no new wood required.

Simple examples exist today, like co-generation power plants that use their waste heat to generate energy to heat and cool homes, or in a particularly popular example given that evening, the Brooklyn Brewery sharing its waste for livestock feed or energy generation.

Building combined cycle gas turbine plants near users and recycling waste heat saves even more money, reducing required costs by $ 25 per MWh versus the same technology built remote from users.

The best answer may be biomass: woody waste and — in slightly trickier forms — cow manure and even municipal waste that could power and heat entire towns in the United States.

McKitrick's next analysis could make use of these explicit adjustment factors (even though this is a US - only study, and not every country has the same level of AC - generated waste heat).

Since more than half of the energy consumption today is lost as waste heat, recovering even a mere few percent of it would imply a new renewable source of energy.

Depending on where and how you live, this is definitely an interesting option instead of burning wood, using geothermal power, or even heating with organic waste.

Earlier reports on the toilet claimed that «heat from burning the waste produces enough electricity to power the unit, and could even produce a little extra for mobile phone charging» and the drawing shows a «gasifier to combust water -LRB-?)

There are LEED - certified venues that tap waste heat, Aboriginal involvement, and even the Games» mascots, mythological creatures like Miga (half orca / half seahawk), are promoting the anti-carbon campaign.

They have plans for using biomass in the future; I would have thought that they might be able to tap into all that waste heat that is exhausted by office buildings all day, even in winter.

On top of that also add the waste heat from electric power stations, and even the thermal pollution from nuke plants (Even though they do not emit co2) and airplanes and I reckon that is a lot of heat energy that used to be a form of carbon now warming up the atmospheven the thermal pollution from nuke plants (Even though they do not emit co2) and airplanes and I reckon that is a lot of heat energy that used to be a form of carbon now warming up the atmosphEven though they do not emit co2) and airplanes and I reckon that is a lot of heat energy that used to be a form of carbon now warming up the atmosphere.

The research, which was led by Hanqin Tian of Auburn University with a long list of 22 co-authors, points the finger at phenomena like animal agriculture, rice cultivation and waste disposal as key features of climate change that don't get much attention, but that overall are causing the Earth to heat up even more than it would otherwise.