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certinally coal nuclear and oil fired plants with thoise big cooling
towers waste lots of heat........
I'll wager their overall thermal efficiency is higher than these units.

Sure... 100% is the theoretical limit for cogen. The Intelligen 5 kW unit
got a combined 93% efficiency ((heat+elec output)/fuel heating value.)

It must be something else than a single-cylinder engine generator then
that the posting I saw said it was...

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