Waste-Heat Recovery

Recycling waste-heat to generate even more power without any additional carbon emissions certainly sounds like an appealing technology. And of course the genius of a carbon tax or a well-designed cap-and-trade system would be precisely that it helps technologies like this to emerge without requiring political pundits (e.g., me) or congressional staffers to accurately guess which technologies are the most promising low-carbon alternatives.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/11/waste-heat-recovery/46836/