permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> "CHP" otherwise known as "cogeneration"...

"What's in a name?  A rose etc. etc..."

Thanks - I know of it by the "co-generation" term, I just didn't leap the
terminological gap.  It may well have heated my room (and most everyone else's
nearby) when I was living in Sweden in '83-'84.

> However: you need a USEFUL way to use the heat and a way to get it
> there...
<snip>
> ...if: there is an electricity plant IN your town and
> a "matching" heat requirement nearby ....

I think, like biodiesel, and some geothermal, it's a technology of
local/transitional opportunity.  Great if it meets all parameters for
maximizing systemic efficiency; otherwise, not.




John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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