There's been this idea around for about a century now and it goes by many names; Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Cogeneration, Trigeneration, etc. It describes an idea to use a combustible fuel to produce electricity and heat inside the building that uses it. Basically, excess heat from electricity generation, which is normally vented to the atmosphere in large central power plants, is reused to heat water for use inside the facility. Central power plants use only 30% of the energy in the fuel bu…
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Added by Tim on July 13, 2008 at 10:11pm —
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