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Trigeneration
February 18, 2011 2 min. read

I took a tour today of NYU’s new trigeneration plant:  It’s “tri” because it produces electricity, heat and hot water, and chilled water for air conditioning.  It’s a great facility, well thought out and executed.  It’s state of the art.  It provides 13.4 MW of electricity and that which isn’t used by the school is […]

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There Oughta Be a Law
August 11, 2009 3 min. read

You will notice in this diagram from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) depicting the total electricity flow in the US for 2008 that “conversion losses” account for 63% of the energy generated.  Got that?!  Nearly two thirds of the energy used to make electricity, 51% of that from coal, 21% from nuclear, and 17% from […]

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