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- noun A combined heating plant and power generator.
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The car is a natural CHP cogenerator, where CHP stands for Combined Heat and Power.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The power station in your basement 2010
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The car is a natural CHP cogenerator, where CHP stands for Combined Heat and Power.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The power station in your basement 2010
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The car is a natural CHP cogenerator, where CHP stands for Combined Heat and Power.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The power station in your basement 2010
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The last time natural gas was inexpensive Dallas County was talked into purchasing a natural gas cogenerator plant.
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The cogenerator will directly contribute to the reduction of many air pollutants, including a 20 percent reduction in the sulfur content of acid rain.
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As you can see, the cogenerator can produce about the same useful output as the furnace/generator combination with approximately 1/3 less fuel; further, the cogenerator does not have to be as efficient as the stand-alone generator to yield savings, because the heat is going to a useful purpose.
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How does the combination of the furnace and generator stack up to the cogenerator?
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A cogenerator which converts fuel to electricity with 25% efficiency and captures 70% of the total energy as heat, for an overall efficiency of 95%.
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STG originated in Cambridge, Mass. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and they are currently testing their cogenerator in Lesotho.
ConocoPhillips, Penn State Award 2010 Energy Prize to Rural Cogeneration - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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Still, it does show enthusiasm, and maybe they won't need as much subsidy if they can persuade enough homeowners to pay way too much for a fancy electric cogenerator. letstakeawalk 12: 26AM (9/18/2009)
Autoblog Green 2009
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