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On November 17th, 2011 at 5:39 pm Sid Abma Said:
How much of what is causing global changes is coming out of industrial and commercial buildings chimney’s? HOT exhaust
If the exhaust leaving these chimneys was exhaust from natural gas or LPG something can be done so that this exhaust is no longer hot.
The technology of Condensing Flue Gas Heat Recovery is designed to transfer almost all of this waste energy into water that can then be used for building space heating, or it can go into heating domestic water, or industrial process or plant washdown water. At a hotel or university it can even be put into the swimming pool water.
The US Department of Energy states that for every million Btu’s recovered from these waste exhaust gases, and this recovered energy is utilized back in the building or facility, 118 lbs of CO2 will NOT be put into the atmosphere. Compare that to changing light bulbs/ hourly.
Water is becoming an issue in a lot of states. This “condensing flue gas heat recovery” technology creates water during the heat recovery process. Have you ever seen combusted natural gas irrigate the lawns and flower beds?
There are ways to battle against global warming. It’s called increasing our energy efficiency every where we can!!