Sentences with phrase «waste heat generated»

A Canadian greenhouse and fish farm is utilizing the waste heat generated by Bitcoin mining to complement its operations providing evidence of a sustainable way to mine Bitcoin in the future.

The containers» clever double - wall design is meant to be filled with water, which evaporates slowly thanks to the waste heat generated by the refrigerator, a process that also lowers the containers» internal temperatures — thus naturally cooling its contents.

In automobiles, waste heat generated in winter is diverted to run the vehicle heating system, but in the summer, that same waste heat must be dissipated to the environment.

Not exact matches

These incinerators were able to recover energy through burning waste, using the released heat to boil water, and using the steam produced to power turbines that generate electricity.

«In particular, instead of electricity or natural gas we plan to use waste heat or biogas generated from anaerobic digestion to bake our dog biscuits.

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.

Biodigesters won't quite generate «1.21 jigawatts» of power (as Doc's Mr. Fusion device seemed to), but they can create fuel for heating, cooking, and electricity while reducing waste and water contamination.

Thermoelectric materials, which convert a temperature difference across their surface into a current, offer yet another way to generate energy from waste heat.

Although thermal reactors generate heat and thus electricity quite efficiently, they can not minimize the output of radioactive waste.

The waste was found to generate so much heat that the rocks got hot, the containers changed shape and the seals failed.

Some 80 restaurants, caterers and hotels, including gourmet food company Fauchon and Michelin - starred Taillevent, signed up for a pilot project to collect their food waste, which is used to generate biogas and produce electricity and heat, as well as compost for farms around Paris.

Hydrogen fuel cells, which expel only water and heat as waste, are an appealing way to generate clean electricity, but the present technology relies on expensive platinum catalysts.

But as transistors become tinier they waste more power and generate more heat — all in a smaller and smaller space, as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.

You know, 55 percent of the power generated in the United States is wasted and wasted because it is dissipated as heat and other sorts of losses; 25 percent of the food generated in the country is wasted as waste in that case.

«Poultry waste hydrochar generates heat at high temperatures and combusts in a similar manner to coal, an important factor in replacing it as renewable energy source.»

So when higher - energy photons come into the solar cell, they devote more of their energy to dislodging electrons and generating electric current, and waste less as heat.

And unlike incandescents, which generate a lot of waste heat, LEDs don't get especially hot and use a much higher percentage of electricity for directly generating light.

The UCLA researchers were able to demonstrate that using this multiferroic material to generate spin waves could reduce wasted heat and therefore increase power efficiency for processing by up to 1,000 times.

Low - grade waste heat is an artifact of many energy - generating methods.

Many industrial sites, geothermal sources or solar generating plants also create low - grade heat that is wasted.

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.

All the millions of lifeforms on Earth seek energy and food while generating waste heat and materials.

In addition to their possible use in cleaning up toxic wastes and in generating energy, the microbes may also yield useful substances and pharmaceuticals with commercial and technological applications, such as heat - resistant enzymes that can be used in detergents.

Through oxygenation, the body generates heat and energy from its fuel, and disposes of wastes.

Furthermore certain sources of energy that are considered «clean» such as nuclear power and the potential, in the future, to transmit energy from satellites to the Earth will continue to generate waste heat (thermal pollution) that will continue to warm the Earth.

As it decomposes under piles of waste with no access to sunlight or oxygen, it decomposes anaerobically — a process that inevitably generates methane, a greenhouse gas that according to Science Daily, «is roughly 30 times as potent as a heat - trapping gas [compared to carbon dioxide].»

I've identified at least one way to generate pollution free power (waste heat recycling) and suggested (to your clear disagreement) that it's possible that market forces, including investor and management activism could identify solutions and that certifying groups could set standards of «green» activity that could be adopted by industries.

The big task ahead for Alphabet is to get the technology to an efficiency and at a scale where the cost of generating electricity from waste heat is cheaper than the cost of retail electricity.

One explanation is that space aliens implanted an energy source in the deep ocean — they are storing up the energy for the trip back, but it does generate some waste heat.

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.

U.S. companies burn forest wastes both to produce process heat for their own use and to generate electricity for sale to local utilities.

Within the heating sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, switching to efficient electric heat paired with the electric sector tax avoidance options, and potentially switching to lower carbon heating options such as waste heat from sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants or buying «renewable natural gas» from bio-digesters, generated either within the District or from outside.

A major driver in these efficiency gains has been our increased investment in cogeneration — a technology enabling us to capture heat generated from electricity production that is otherwise wasted, and use it in other industrial processes.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

In any case, unless the boreholes were made with a magic drilling rig, where the drilling head generated no heat, and no fluid or drilling mud was used to flush the drill waste from the hole, the temperatures of the exposed bore walls are useless for anything except rough indications of the local geothermal gradient.

3) Accelerated capital cost allowance has been expanded to include investment in technologies that generate electricity using waste heat from industrial processes.

Since January 1, 2012, renewable energy sources have accounted for nearly half (47.83 %) of all new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity followed by natural gas (38.34 %) and coal (13.40 %) with oil, waste heat, and «other» accounting for the balance.

Landfill methane can be tapped, captured, and used as a fairly clean energy source for generating electricity or heat, rather than leaking into the air or being dispersed as waste.

[1] An NGCC plant first uses a gas combustion turbine to generate electricity, then uses the waste heat to make steam to generate additional electricity in a steam turbine.

89 Until we get zero waste, however, the methane (natural gas) produced in existing landfills as organic materials in buried garbage decompose can also be tapped to produce industrial process heat or to generate electricity in combined heat and power plants.

Efficient power supplies that limit power conversion losses and generate less waste heat, which reduces the need for excess air conditioning in the datacenter facility where they are housed;

The city creatively generates electricity using everything from food scraps to manure to used cooking oil, converting waste into biogas, and then efficiently pumping heat all over the city from large central furnaces.

The best way to do this, in my opinion, is using a fuel cell — a device that can electrochemically convert natural gas into a useable fuel by stripping off the hydrogen portion of the methane molecule and combining it with oxygen to generate clean electricity and some waste heat.

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).

The temperature at the turbine's front blades is 1,500 C, and its waste heat is extracted by a downstream heat exchanger to power a steam turbine and generate additional electricity.

By rejecting 1,000 MW equivalent of waste heat to the upper atmosphere instead of at ground level, it is possible to generate an additional 200 MW of electrical energy, thereby increasing the electrical output of a plant by 40 %.

Essentially you need to produce enough waste heat to generate current flows several times larger than that of the overturning circulation to be effective.

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.

Combined cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines.

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