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hephaes7us
6mo ago
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There absolutely is, but of course it's nonzero cost to capture.
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adonovan
6mo ago
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Also, the temperature is not high enough (compared to the steam coming out of a gas/oil/nuclear plant) to obtain much work from the waste heat.
tonyarkles
6mo ago
That is 100% the issue. This is really low quality heat. Making it better would require even more energy input (e.g. a heat pump) because we can’t safely run electronics hot enough to generate high quality process heat.
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