too hot to handle, too cold to hold how to save up to 40% on your energy bill
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Too Hot to Handle, Too Cold to Hold
How to save up to 40% on your energy bill
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Your Appliance IQ
Where do you use your other 27%? What rooms of the house? What activities?
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How Much Does it Use?Power Consumption (Watts)
TV 215
Laptop 120
Coffee Maker 1200
Microwave 1500
Dryer 2800
Dishwasher 1200
Freezer 400
Hair Dryer 1000
Toaster 1000
Fridge 700
Well Pump 2250
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How Much Are You Paying?Monthly Cost (Estimated)
TV $4.00 Laptop $2.05Coffee Maker $1.30Microwave $1.05Clothes Dryer $12.11Dishwasher $5.21Freezer $1.74Hair Dryer $0.84Refrigerator $21.27Well Pump $3.50Total $53.07
WI Avg (from EIA) $81.71 US Avg (from EIA) $103.67
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Heating: The Big One
40% of personal energy use (more in WI)
Single biggest source of personal energy use
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Some Like it Hot: How We Get Heat
Gas Heating Electric Heating Wood Stove Geothermal
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Gas vs Electric What's Hot What's Not?
Gas Burn fuel to
produce heat
Electric Burn fuel to produce
heat Heat water to make
steam Use steam to run
turbine Use turbine to
power generator Make electricity Use resistor to make
heat
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Electric heat uses 2-3 times as much gas from plant to house.
How much more does it cost to use an electric heater?
Which is better, gas or electric?
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Ways to Make Electricity Heat Engines
Coal plants Gas plants Nuclear plants Solar thermal Biomass
Other Hydro Wind Tide Solar PV
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Heat Engines vs Other Electric Revisited
• Heat Engines• Maximum efficiency
limited by thermodynamics (physics)• Power plants are 30-
50% efficient• What happens to the
other half?• Waste heat!• Can we use the waste
heat to produce more work?
• Other Electric• No fuel burned to
create electricity, free resources
• Electricity can be converted to heat at 100% efficiency
• Take up a lot of space (square feet per megawatt)
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Waste Heat
100 GJ/yr = 3.17 kW…like every person in WI had 3 hair dryers running 24/7 the whole year.
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~salexa/Research-WasteHeat.htm
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Heat Pumps and Geothermal Heat• What is a heat pump?
• Heat engine in reverse (same idea as a refrigerator)
• Put work in to get heat flow
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So How Do They Work? You need a “working fluid” to transport the
energy where you want it to go. This must be pumped around.
The work needed is proportional to the difference between the outside and inside temperatures.
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The Nitty Gritty on Heat PumpsAs the temperatures get nearer, you need less and less work to get heating/cooling.
Geothermal cooling is 75% more efficient than the refrigerator in your kitchen.
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What Does This Mean?Three Ways to Eliminate Paying For Space and Water Heating
Option 1•Harnessing waste heat from power plants would more than meet the space/water heating needs of all the US (residential).
•Can we do it?
Option 2•Integrated renewables (solar/wind) provide “free” energy resources that can be converted completely to heat.Option 3•Geothermal heat pumps achieve the desired heat transfer with minimal work input.
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A Caveat: Quality of EnergyIf we can convert energy into work, it’s more useful (ie higher quality).The quality of thermal energy (heat) is proportional to how much higher its temperature is than the surroundings.Mechanical energy and electricity are the highest quality (convert into any form 100%).Are electricity and high energy density fuels the best way to heat our houses and water?
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A Re-envisioned Power Grid
http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~salexa/Research-WasteHeat.htm
“Figure 4 - Results from this study highlight the benefits of a alternate energy consumption paradigm where power is generated in a distributed fashion, maximizing waste heat recovery opportunities and reducing primary energy consumption”
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A Final Thought Use the right quality energy for the job!
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In Summary When it comes to conserving energy and
saving money, there are a few key ideas.1) For “high” temperature applications, gas
saves 67% on energy and cost. (Hotter than you want to touch).
2) For space/water heating, we have an excess of waste heat from power plants and an abundance of geothermal heat.
3) To fill in gaps and further reduce costs, integrated renewables (wind/solar) are a cure-all.