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By: David Stone

David Stone — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:18:04 +0000

Sorry if this seems like a small-minded language lesson, but such inaccurate or totally incorrect statements can be so mis-leading as to manipulate, because most people have either no time, no interest or no intelligence to take them as at anything other that at face value.

– 7 Quadrillion BTUs of Free Energy Available

It is not free; it was already paid for.

If you buy two cds and lose one, finding it again does not make that one free.

– We can literally create energy out of thin air.

That statement could be seen as true if it read “We can metaphorically create energy out of thin air.”

It is precisely literally that we can not.

And a personal strong dislike of mine: bad puns of the sort CNN loves:

– Recycling heat is hot.

Spare me this brainless attempt at humor.

Though this goes to prove that higher resource prices do not neccesarily lead to higher customer costs.

They promote efficiency.

It is like with cars.

It does not matter how much a gallon costs, but how much a mile does.

By: David Stone

David Stone — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:18:00 +0000

– 7 Quadrillion BTUs of Free Energy Available

It is not free; it was already paid for.

If you buy two cds and lose one, finding it again does not make that one free.

– We can literally create energy out of thin air.

That statement could be seen as true if it read “We can metaphorically create energy out of thin air.”

It is precisely literally that we can not.

And a personal strong dislike of mine: bad puns of the sort CNN loves:

– Recycling heat is hot.

Spare me this brainless attempt at humor.

Though this goes to prove that higher resource prices do not neccesarily lead to higher customer costs.

They promote efficiency.

It is like with cars.

It does not matter how much a gallon costs, but how much a mile does.

By: miggs

miggs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Russ, you’re right that going after low-grade heat is hard. I’m associated with Recycled Energy Development (RED), a company in this field that’s been profiled all over the place (not trying to brag), and RED focuses on very high-heat waste, which is mainly at manufacturing facilities. This article is right on that the potential here is massive. Actually, RED president Sean Casten has written a guest post for CleanTechnica in the past!

By: miggs

miggs — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:42:00 +0000

By: SUNfiltered : Fresh culture daily. » Blog Archive » Green tech finds (7/10/09)

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:53:54 +0000

[…] Free energy? There’s a ton of it out there — 7 quadrillion BTUs — in the form of wasted heat. The Department of Energy has announced funding opportunities for R&D on how to tap this massive source of energy. (via Cleantechnica) […]

By: russ

russ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:12:37 +0000

This is really something important to follow up.

Having worked with it on an industrial basis I am well aware it is a very difficult task to go after low grade waste heat and polluted heat.

In traditional heat exchangers the units become massive and uneconomical with low temperatures and high temperatures present problems of metal survival due to various reactions. Middle ground was easy but should be done to a large extent by now. Low temperature units also have a real problem with the acid gas dew point corrosion.

It will take a real effort to win on this and the people/companies doing it are important to us.

Hoping to see many successes in this field!

By: russ

russ — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:12:00 +0000

This is really something important to follow up.

Having worked with it on an industrial basis I am well aware it is a very difficult task to go after low grade waste heat and polluted heat.

It will take a real effort to win on this and the people/companies doing it are important to us.

Hoping to see many successes in this field!