Capturing waste heat and turning it to power is like making something from nothing. Heat to power (H2P) has huge global potential. Imagine that 60% of all world energy eventually becomes waste heat. It is estimated that there are over 9 million megawatts of free energy in the world in form of waste heat. That is equal to 18,000 – 500 MW coal fired plants!
The waste heat industry is bigger than the top four energy sources combined:
- oil
- coal
- natural gas
- nuclear energy
Capturing just 10% of the world’s waste heat will produce 900,000 megawatts of fuel-free, emission-free recycled energy. (This assumes global average thermal efficiency of 40% X 14 terawatts total world energy consumption – Dr. Richard Smalley, Rice University, June 23 2003 Nobel Prize Winner)
At $0.10 per kilowatt-hour this equals over –$90 billion/year in savings for companies utilizing combined heat and power technology for the production of on-sight power, local power and distributed generation.
Heat to power is a free and non-polluting energy that will help bring energy security to companies and communities.
