Recycling heat energy – Prolonging the lifetime of industry’s most invaluable resource

Abstract

Drive home from work…lights on…dinner in oven…kettle boiling…TV on….Without energy as we know it, January might just become a little bit harder. Energy is everywhere and in everything. It has become a hot topic of conversation, a buzzword which is used in every political campaign and every report on the decaying state of our environment. Statements such as “Energy is running out”, have become so common that they are more likely to make you change the channel than pay attention. Nobody wants to hear it, but the unfortunate thing is that we do actually have an energy problem. Before discussing it, it is very important to examine the word energy more closely. Energy is not running out. That is not a dramatic statement, but simply an example of how buzzwords and the use of generic terms in media reports can give a false meaning to perfectly simple statements. Energy is ...