Comments on: Alternative Fuel Projects Win EPA Awards http://domesticfuel.com/2009/05/13/alternative-fuel-projects-win-epa-awards/ Alternative Fuel News Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Salubrius http://domesticfuel.com/2009/05/13/alternative-fuel-projects-win-epa-awards/comment-page-1/#comment-113495 Salubrius Fri, 15 May 2009 06:38:37 +0000 http://domesticfuel.com/?p=12782#comment-113495 These molten carbonate fuel cells can run on sewage gas, mine mouth coal gas, natural gas, gas from a coal gasifier, gas from beer brewing and bread baking, propane, oil, and are more efficient than conventional coal fired boilers and steam turbines that have a capacity of 600,000 kW. At a Ford plant, one of them runs on paint fumes. Even better news is they eliminate 99% of the toxic pollution that comes from conventional coal fired steam turbines. Because they are small, they can be located at the site of the load and their waste heat can be used for space heating, heating swimming pools, providing domestic hot water and even air conditioning. Heat can travel only six miles at most, so heat from conventional giant plants must be wasted. When the waste heat from co-generation is used, the efficiency can go up to as much as 94%+ based on reports from a hospital in Germany. At the present time the hardware is more expensive than for the conventional plants but with volume production it will come down. Wouldn't it be nice to eliminate the transmission lines snaking through the wilderness. These molten carbonate fuel cells can run on sewage gas, mine mouth coal gas, natural gas, gas from a coal gasifier, gas from beer brewing and bread baking, propane, oil, and are more efficient than conventional coal fired boilers and steam turbines that have a capacity of 600,000 kW. At a Ford plant, one of them runs on paint fumes.

Even better news is they eliminate 99% of the toxic pollution that comes from conventional coal fired steam turbines. Because they are small, they can be located at the site of the load and their waste heat can be used for space heating, heating swimming pools, providing domestic hot water and even air conditioning. Heat can travel only six miles at most, so heat from conventional giant plants must be wasted. When the waste heat from co-generation is used, the efficiency can go up to as much as 94%+ based on reports from a hospital in Germany.

At the present time the hardware is more expensive than for the conventional plants but with volume production it will come down. Wouldn’t it be nice to eliminate the transmission lines snaking through the wilderness.

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