Thermal Energy Networks May Be About to Have Their Moment(wsj.com)
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Thermal Energy Networks May Be About to Have Their Moment
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/thermal-energy-climate-friendly-might-have-moment-de5e0559
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Can this heat turn into electricity?
Paywalled but if it’s about geothermal or some sort of tied heated system, no (at least meaningfully). Electricity is work. Anytime you convert heat into work, you pay the entropy tax, aka Carnot efficiency. Whenever you have heat or a source of heat dump, it’s always better to use it as heat rather than work.
I can’t read article because of paywall.
I’m genuinely interested as I am part of expanding the thermal energy network (district heating) in Denmark. A technology we have been exporting for quite many years - later years also for cooling.