With data centers using roughly 1.8% of all energy in the US, recycling the waste heat from cooling the servers is a huge opportunity for the environment and the bottom line.

Exploring the sources and uses of heat on a vehicle

Understanding the untapped potential in our vehicles

While I was running a sales team for a product that recovered heat and converted it into electricity, I would get daily inquiries from companies that had waste heat available. Each of them wanted a heat recovery solution.

Sounds great right? It wasn’t.

Heat energy is recoverable in huge amounts at industrial facilities across the world and represents an environmentally and economically attractive potential source of clean energy. Check out our first presentation on Slideshare.

20-50% of primary energy input to US industrial facilities is lost as heat, which equals 5­13 quadrillion Btu per year of unused energy (US DOE).  For perspective, that’s somewhere between the entire primary energy consumption of the countries of Turkey and Germany (EIA).