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The U.S. lags far behind the world leaders when it comes to producing energy through combined heat and power (CHP).

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Cogeneration: Producing Heat and Light and Profits

What role will recycling energy play in the future of renewable energy? Two thirds of the energy people produce is wasted. It goes up power… Read more

Excerpt from Chapter 12: Less is More

The experience of those who have focused on (energy efficiency) demonstrates that it is virtually inexhaustible, because innovation in efficiency is, in a very real… Read more

The Case for ‘Gray Power’

The Midwest and South have become the Colossus of Carbon: coal-dependent, with resistance to climate change legislation from the left and the right. Progressives from… Read more

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Hot trend: Recycling wasted heat to cut emissions, costs

A new hospital is being built near Princeton, N.J., that won't depend on the local electricity grid, won't pump out the normal amount of greenhouse gases and won't pay peak prices for electricity.

The University Medical Center of Princeton will have its own power plant that will use natural gas to make electricity; the heat generated as a byproduct will create steam to heat the building, sterilize equipment and provide cooling.

Interest in this kind of combined heat and power has been growing as U.S. energy prices rise, old plants near retirement and the country begins to get more serious about reducing global warming pollution. Read more