And as chips continue to get smaller, with more circuits packed into smaller spaces, the amount of
wasted heat grows.
Not exact matches
For example, at the Oserian flower farm on Lake Naivasha, roses are now
grown with geothermal
waste heat to save energy.
A
growing interest in thermoelectric materials — which convert
waste heat to electricity — and pressure to improve
heat transfer from increasingly powerful microelectronic devices have led to improved theoretical and experimental understanding of how
heat is transported through nanometer - scale materials.
Run on
waste heat, this commercial facility is the first of its kind in the world, extracting CO2 from the air and piping it to a greenhouse farm to
grow veggies.
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.
However, scientists must eliminate any artificial inhomogeneities caused by a
growing population that alters the surface and adds
waste heat, or when stations relocate to a different micro-climate.
In addition to the energy crops discussed in Chapter 2, these include forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts, urban
waste, livestock
waste, plantations of fast -
growing trees, crop residues, and urban tree and yard
wastes — all of which can be used for electrical generation,
heating, or the production of automotive fuels.
Over the long term, it surely pays to be green: you use less gas or
heating oil and you leave more money in your pocket; you
grow your own food and reduce your expenses (over time) as well as your diet's carbon footprint; you reduce, reuse, and recycle and you get far, far more bang for your buck while putting less
waste into the production and distribution streams.
A self - described geek harvests the
waste -
heat of a computer tower to
grow wheatgrass in his basement.
Best of all, the
wasted heat from using an incandescent is
wasted no more; it's used to help your greens
grow.
Organic
waste that can be converted to usable forms of energy such as
heat or electricity, or crops
grown specifically for that purpose.
Ethanol and biodeisel will also soon be made from algae, which will be
grown on (among other things) the
waste products of existing corn ethanol refineries: CO2,
waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse effluent.
Writing in Environmental Research Letters, author Mary S. Booth disputes assertions that burning biomassOrganic
waste that can be converted to usable forms of energy such as
heat or electricity, or crops
grown specifically for that purpose.