Finally, a Heat-To-Electricity Device Powerful Enough for The Old-School Energy Giants
8th October 2014
Startup Alphabet Energy is billing its new product, announced on Tuesday, as the world’s first industrial scale thermoelectric generator, which means it is powerful enough to be used at remote oil, gas and mining sites. Called the “E1,” the device uses the latest in material science and nanotechnology to capture waste heat from the exhaust stack of a diesel generator, and the material inside converts that heat into usable electricity.
October 8th, 2014 at 09:45
It’s never been a question of whether or not it could be done; the problem has and always will be what is the cost per KW.
I was involved with a coal gassification project in the 1980s. Why don’t we do that now? Well, natural gas can be delivered for about 1/10 of the cost. Want energy companies to drill or do you want your gas bill to be 10 times higher? I thought so.