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Electricity from Hot Water

April 20th, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments
ergenic

Now there's a new way to make electricity from the heat differential between hot (warm) and cold water.  An American company with a Canadian past named Ergenics is making electricity using thermal mechanical pumps built with metal hydrides.  Metal hydrides can absorb hydrogen and they can act just like an expanding gas that produces pressure ...

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Heat Pumps to Reduce Your Energy Costs

February 13th, 2009 Jobe Roberts 4 comments
Bright Spot in a Dark Corner

When many of us hear the words heat pump, we might think air-conditioner or refrigerator. It's nothing new, it seems like old technology, but truth be told, heat pumps have been improving over the years; getting more efficient all of the time. For many of us, refrigerators don't even sound environmentally friendly, but they ...

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Heat Pumps + MicroCHP = DIY Home Generators?

July 13th, 2008 Jobe Roberts 16 comments
Water Wheel

When two complimentary technologies collide for the first time, sparks fly. The excitement comes at the prospect of generating heat and electricity by harvesting the heat out of the ground below your house. For a number of years now we've known about heat pumps. They're basically a refrigerator that moves heat from one place to another. ...

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