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re: oil fired hot air home owner?
15 feb 2000
abby normal wrote:
>get politically correct nick.
huh?
>with steam turbines i always felt that the condensers rejected an amount of
>energy comparable to the amount of power that is actually generated. the
>stack losses are minor in comparison.
i guess i shoulda said "cooling tower losses," which taken together with
smaller transmission losses amount to twice the delivered electrical power.
either way, it's an f-ing ripoff, thermodynamically-speaking, compared to
small-scale cogeneration. some hvac criminals almost restore the energy
balance (an unnatural act, at great expense) by transforming 30% of the
original fuel's heating value back into 100% with heat pumps...
nick
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