Should have been 1 MW turbine. On May 16, 2016 19:00, "Lennart Thornros" <lenn...@thornros.com> wrote:
> I said to you, Jed, that I think my suggested usage is as valid as yours. > BTW I have a great deal of experience from this industry but not as an > engineer/operator. Your very demeaning statements are followed by you very > lose claim of expertise in all industrial processes. > I know the temperature is off but a 1MW could sit in the area. You are > just sending poorly substantiated 'truth' based on your experience for as > to swallow although unlike Mats you are jnable to mention your source and > how they convinced you. > I do not understand your anger and demeanor. Not a sound exchange of > argument. That is regardless if you are right or wrong. > On May 16, 2016 18:47, "Jed Rothwell" <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Lennart Thornros <lenn...@thornros.com> wrote: > >> Jed, there is nobody saying the heat is consumed in the building. >> If it was not Florida I could suggest that they used the heat to warm >> residential buuldings. The size of such a 'machine' would easily fit (a few >> pumps). >> > Ah ha. Okay. Would you like to do a reality check on that? Maybe think > about it? > > This building is 10,800 sq. ft. Builders recommend 20 BTU per square foot. > That's 63 kW. The heater supposedly produces 1000 kW, so it is enough for > sixteen buildings of this size. Do you think there are pipes running out of > the building in some kind of district heating scheme? Do you think the > state of Florida would allow that without an investigation or precedent? > Steam running in pipes suspended over the street perhaps? > > > I do not speculate but it is at least as realistic as 100 steam cleaners. >> > On the other hand, you might spend some time reading about industrial > equipment and how much process heat it takes. That is, if you would like to > ground your assertions in reality. > > I am not speculating. I am telling you how things actually work here in > the real world, and how much heat it takes to heat a building. You could > have looked that up yourself. > > > To put it another way -- > > The customer's facility is 6,500 sq. ft. This is enough heat to heat > 170,607 sq. ft (at 20 BTU/sq. ft.). When you use process heat, nearly all > of the heat eventually comes out. Only a little is absorbed in whatever > endothermic process you are doing. So this is how much heat you use for > space heating in an area 26 times larger than this. Does anyone think that > 2 exhaust fans would be sufficient to keep that area safe for human > occupation? Have you ever been in a hot building? > > - Jed > >
