64% of US States Could Supply 100% of Their Own Power From Renewable Energy, New Rules Project Shows
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Combined Heat&Power. The rustbelt and the oil, coal and gas states have vast untapped potential for combined heat & power, as I’ve covered before: 7 Quadrillion BTUs of Free Energy Available. It’s free. In fact many industries could sell electricity from the byproduct they make as they make other things. Heat. This is a great opportunity for cement makers and paper-mills to make a side income. Any industrial process that creates heat could also generate electricity on the side.
The DOE is investigating using a variation of CH&P for getting electricity from the hot water they create as a byproduct of oil drilling – so it is sort of a hybrid between “artificial” geothermal power and CH&P:
Recovered Energy Generation Using Waste Hot Water in Oil Fields and
DOE Shows Oil Industry How to Make Electricity While Drilling For Oil.
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