harry wrote:
On 23 Sep, 19:16, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
harry wrote:
On 23 Sep, 16:46, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:32:11 +0100, tony sayer wrote:
Cannot that cooling water "heat" be usefully recovered?..
It could by piping it to the local community for space/water heating.
Large scale combined heat and power, used quite a bit in other
countries and should also be done in this country but you do need a
sizeable community, or a business that can use the heat, close to the
power station.
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Cheers
Dave.
I have run heat and power systems. There are lots of operational
problems, the main one being heat is not required in Summer and it's
often low quality heat eg warm water & not very useful. I have yet to
see a successful system.
I have seen very successful systems in Denmark, where they burn waste
generate electricity and heat council flats.

About the only thing in Denmark worth having.



The main city wide sytems in use were in E Europe launched in the
sixties. as far as I know, they have all been shut down as inefficient
and uneconomical.
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The only reason it's half succesfull there is that the "fuel" is free.
However burning waste brings its own problems. I've done that too.

Oh, no denying that either, and it isn't free, mindless droids on
excessively high public sector salaries that mustn't be less than that
of the top official, or its unfair, have to sort the rubbish.

But it does go to show that if you live in a neo communist state, you
can do a lot with waste heat.