Re: the concept of waste heat

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waste heat is any heat that is caused by a proccess that is not used further along.  so in your example, yes, unless you hook up a sterling to reconvert it to electricity.

On 5/19/06, Harry Veeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

What criteria is used to distinguish between unwanted heat and waste heat?

e.g. If a home is cooled by a heat pump in the summer is it producing waste
heat?

Harry

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