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Simple Drain Heat Recovery System Can Save Up to 50% Heating Energy

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:44:11 +0000

This morning I found an ingenious idea by RenewABILITY Energy, called Power-Pipe Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR). The name should say it all – it’s a system designed to recover the heat of the water going down the drain and to reduce heating costs by as much as 40 percent. The idea is brilliant yet simple […]

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GM to Research Shape Memory Alloy for Heat Recovery Systems

Cristi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:19:54 +0000

GM's R&D has to build a prototype of a thermo-mechanical waste heat recovery system using a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) heat engine to generate electricity from the heat in exhaust. Noticeable is the fact that GM was between the 37 other candidates that received the ARPA-E award.

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BMW Saves Fuel With Pipe-Mounted Radioactive Device

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:02:49 +0000

In a world that tries to save more and more of its resources, BMW wants to make use of the car's heat to recover some of the energy lost by thermal means. It's just that they understood this time by being green means putting a radioactive thermoelectric generator in the car's tailpipe.

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