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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: Energy Strategy and Global Warming
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.230554.28718@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: energy efficiency CO2 abatement cost effective
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan19.204206.3708@pmafire.inel.gov> <1993Jan20.130020.13824@aisb.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.130701.14221@aisb.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 23:05:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.130701.14221@aisb.ed.ac.uk> jamesh@aisb.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:
- >Yet, in going from a fuel to electricity,
- >there is always a considerable amount of waste heat produced. This can
- >be used profitably to heat buildings. This is known as cogeneration(or
- >combined heat and power;'CHP'). CHP stations that provide electricity for
- >a grid, and heat for houses in the local area, can achieve efficiencies
- >of 70% or more(what I mean is that 'useful energy' in the form of useful
- >heat or electricity, is 70% of the energy avialable in the original
- >fuel)[10].
-
- But Greenpeace grossly condradicts itself on this issue.
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- Greenpeace says:
- 1. CHP can double (or more) the efficiency by sending waste heat to nearby
- city buildings (and it is a LOT of waste heat, I might add).
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- 2. You're not going to build a nuke/coal plant in my backyard!
-
-
- Also, can you imagine if a nuke plant was CHP?
-
- Greenpeace: "You mean that steam passed through a steam genenerator that
- was in a RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT! Shut it down! Shut it down!"
-
- Get real. You can't have it both ways.
-
- Tino
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