Combined heat and power

Don Holohan, steam heat expert, featured this article in his recent newsletter. Since few of you follow steam heat, I thought it was worth repeating here. It’s particularly relevant to city dwellers, given the new impetus for locally generated power (in New York, miniature power stations are apparently all the rage; apparently Venezuela has been trying less successfully to localize power generation, too) that reduces transmission loss. 

Getting steamed up about heat loss

By the way, this article has NOTHING to do with steam heat, which is pictured below. And for those of you “in the know,” that IS a mildly improperly piped installation (the pipe should come up another six inches before bending around). It’s been fixed.