tblakeslee

Fuel Cells as Renewable Power?

The great thing about natural gas powered fuel cells is that the very high temperature exhaust can be used directly for heating, air conditioning and industrial processes. That means the 50% of the fuels energy that would normally be wasted can be put to good use. Overall efficiencies of mare than 85% are possible by generating power where heat is needed. Since natural gas only emits 55% as much CO2 as coal and 85% is about 3X the efficiency of a coal plant, power can be generated with about 1/5 as much CO2 emitted as coal. That's better than Futuregen and it works now!
clrlight.org/BiomassCo...