Waste heat recovery

Swimming Pool Heated by Waste Heat from Cremations

Crematories produce a lot of waste heat. Is it sacrilegious to recycle that excess heat to warm a swimming pool, as is the plan in Redditch, England?
24 May 2011 - 1:00pm
Miller-McCune

The Ultimate in Mixed-Use

Waste-to-energy power plant, and ski slope? Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) proposed the unusual idea for a competition to replace a power plant in Copenhagen -- and won.
5 February 2011 - 1:00pm
Metropolis Magazine

Turning Excess Heat Into Energy

'Waste heat' is a hot area of research as an alternative energy source. Providers say they can turn excess heat produced by machines in factories into clean electricity.
4 May 2010 - 12:00pm
greentechmedia

Computers and Cacti: Saving Energy Together

The University of Notre Dame at Indiana is projecting a savings of $100k in heating and cooling by putting its computer servers into their cactus conservatory, in a technique known as 'waste heat recovery.'
3 October 2008 - 6:00am
WorldChanging
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