The First Cogeneration Generation?

GO FOR IT!!

The waste heat from the generator set is used to heat (water or air) and can also be used to cool. If so you are talking about tri-generation. One step further would be quad-generation in which you also control the humidity of the air.

In my opinion the future of power generation should go through CHP. Big coal fired powerstations usually have a lot of excess heat that is thrown into the atmosphere. That means they burn a part of their coal for heating the atmosphere. (Didn't we have a climate problem to solve?)

By bringing the power generation close to or into living areas the waste heat can be used for hot water supply and appartment heating.

If furthermore washing machines would be equipped with heatpumps that take the heat from this power stream instead of having electric heaters their efficiency would go up and their electricity consumption down a lot.

The future is with decentralized power generation. Forget about building any new big power stations. They are from the stone age.

If you want efficient air-conditioning go and see http://www.coolerado.com/

Please visit also http://www.idalex.com/

Huge economies of energy in buildings are also usually obtained with good thermal insulation and the use of heat wheels.

I hope this will help your friend get his buildings green.

If he is looking for changing his powersupply he can contact me. We are working on 480 kW units running on biodiesel with BSFC of less than 210 g/kWh electric.

Best regards from Paris, Europe.

Randolph Toom

http://earthsupply.blogspot.com/2009/03/green-buildings-and-efficient-systems.html

Dear Friend

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Thanks and regards

Ashok Toshniwal, Bangalore, India