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The March 12, 2009, issue declares that “waste heat from industrial plants and electricity-generating stations represent a huge amount of lost energy.” Tom Casten is quoted saying, “Separate generation of electricity and heat is utter madness.” Read it here.
The publication’s on-line edition features an interview with Tom Casten explaining how to capture power that goes up in smoke. According to Casten, “I became convinced in about 1974 or 1975 that global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions is going to be the biggest issue that we’ve ever faced as human beings and that we have to burn less fossil fuel and learn to reduce CO2 emissions profitably.” Read the article.
The school’s Center on Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness released in early March 2009 Recycling Industrial Waste Energy, part of a series supported by the AFL-CIO and Environmental Defense Fund about the impact of carbon-reducing technologies on U.S. jobs. The report concludes, “The U.S. industrial sector includes many significant opportunities to recycle energy that is currently being discarded.”
GoingGreen recently identified RED as one of the 50 most innovative emerging green-tech and clean-tech companies in the eastern United States. The Aspen Institute Energy and Environmental Awards also highlighted RED as one of five national finalists in its Corporate Energy Efficiency category.
The recently approved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes numerous provisions that encourage combined-heat-and-power and waste-energy-recovery projects.
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