http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/12/ev-heating-and-cooling-could-revolutionize-energy-use/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/12/ev-heating-and-cooling-could-revolutionize-energy-use/#comment-115469 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35952#comment-115469 In a round about – convoluted way Stan was trying to tell you that it is the calorific value of a substance that dictates the heat value. Everyone cries about carbon but it is carbon that makes the flame.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/12/ev-heating-and-cooling-could-revolutionize-energy-use/#comment-115424 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:14:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35952#comment-115424 Thomas…think of a fuel, like you think of the calories in food. Lettuce will not haave as much “fuel” as bread, for instance….30 calories vs say, 150 calories.
The energy within a substance, is formed by the sun’s energy, the minerals in soil, no matter if it’s dissolved and condensed fossiles or a head of lettuce….if you completely dried lettuce, you’d be able to have a tiny fire, in a short
“cool” burn, and then…poof…nothing…..if you burned something more dense in the combo of light and mineraly, like grain, which absorbs lots of light over a growing season, the bread, if someone is very bad at cooking, lol, like a newlywed, when it catches on fire in the toaster, would burn hotter and longer than the little dried lettuce leaves.
This principle is called “latent energy’ or “stored” energy……like the grains in the bread, but to a much greater extent, the fossile matter has been absorbing light for a million years or more. It’s a cycle, which trancends the carbon spectrum…..plant…..cellulose, food for animals, animal dies, decays, puts it’s minerals in the soil, the soil become so rich, it finally becomes peat, the peat condenses, and overly simplified, condenses into oil…..all are carbon….so when you burn fossile fuels, the energy separates carbon dioxide, from monoxide, and other constituent substances into their more elementary states.

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/12/ev-heating-and-cooling-could-revolutionize-energy-use/#comment-115420 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:26:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35952#comment-115420 What is meant by electricity not containing as much heat as fossil fuels? Is this related to waste heat in a vehicle context. This should be clarified. Electricity has higher exergy than most fossil fuels.

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