Over 60% of the energy we produce is wasted as heat.
More than half of the energy in a barrel of oil leaves car exhaust as waste heat.
The average efficiency of power plants in the US is only 30%.
Enough electricity could be produced from waste heat worldwide to power the entire United States.
More waste heat is produced in China, the US, and the EU than total energy throughout the rest of the world, combined.
Waste heat recovery has the ability to offset 10% of all US greenhouse gas emissions.
Electricity generated from waste heat is 100% clean.
Waste heat recovery could replace 600 coal-fired power plants in the US alone.
Every year, 8,500 Terrawatt-hours of high-quality waste heat are produced in the US.
Our Mission
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. With it, we will be able to tap into the US$1 trillion world market for the conversion of waste heat into electricity, with the potential to offset as much as 500 million metric tonnes of carbon per year.
Latest
waste heat recovery is one of the few double bottom line power generation techniques. implement it to reduce costs AND carbon
07:20:24, 04 Mar from Echofon
recovering 10% of waste heat from only a handful of manufacturing industries could generate tens of billions of $ in electricity
20:54:48, 08 Feb from Echofon
the waste heat from hybrids is in fact hotter than that from pure gas engines, smaller engines there mean running them at higher RPM
20:46:36, 08 Feb from Echofon