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Jim Swithenbank - Nextgen

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UK is rapidly facing Energy Poverty<br />

and must cut CO2 emission<br />

We can learn from countries without fossil fuels<br />

who already have Energy Poverty<br />

We need to fully exploit existing energy sources<br />

The UK only uses half of the energy in fuels used<br />

for power generation: the low grade heat is<br />

discharged to atmosphere from cooling towers!<br />

The use of fuels in boilers for heating buildings is<br />

thermodynamically flawed since we use flame<br />

temperatures of ~1500°C to heat rooms to 20°C<br />

Focus on recovering this energy, plus CO2 benefit

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