Recycling Waste Heat Discussed in American Scientist

摘要

Thomas R. Casten, economist and chairman of Recycled Energy Development in Westmont, III., and Phil Schewe of the American Institute of Physics, wrote an article on existing and developing methods of harnessing urban waste heat for the January-February edition of American Scientist. In a March 27 report on the article, Science News notes that two-thirds of the energy locked in fuel used by power plants ends ups as waste heat. The report quotes Casten as suggesting that if power plants weren't so distant from their customers, some of that waste heat could literally be put to work. He pointed to Con Edison's steam system in New York and the Gothenburg, Sweden, hot water district heating system, which uses heat from a waste-incineration plant, as fine examples of recycled energy.