the future of sensible energy usage in homes and businesses is here

[poopfuel]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060822173021.htm

residential micro-generators

[phantom power]

1. If you live in a climate where you use heat.

[jpak]

5. Actually, you could use that heat to compress a refrigerant

and chill out...

:)

[phantom power]

6. I was just thinking the same trick might be done with a water heater.

Although I presume there would be a lot less electricity from that.

[Kolesar]

2. Is that a gas fired turbine? I wish that article had more details.

Usually the electricity demand drives the by product of heat. This product seems to the reverse of that.

[Donnachaidh]

3. the electric companies will have a shit hemmorhage

and they will either buy the patent, or discredit the company.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. There are a lot of innovative technologies

But without capitalization -- financing and investment -- they remain in the lab.

That's why solar and wind are collectively still at under 2% of our total energy supply, why tidal remains experimental after 70 years, and why only a few of the improvements in nuclear energy have made it to the reactors. We could even drill down five or six miles into the Earth and use the heat we find there. But none of these advances are being supported financially. We can ooh and aah at them in Science Daily and the Sunday "Science and Technology" sections of our newspapers, but that's all.

Yes, we're stuck, and stuck we'll stay until the morning after the first Rolling Blackout makes an energy exec or politician miss an important meeting, threatens a vote, or causes an undesired transfer of money and/or political power.

--p!

[skids]

7. Here's the one they are beta testing in Europe.

About the size of a dishwasher. Stirling engine based.



http://www.whispergen.com/