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Originally Posted by strider3700
In town here those sort of setups make no financial sense.
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I have a friend who worked for the Oregon State Department of Energy. A few years ago, he went on a trip to Freiburg, Germany, which is Germany's energy efficiency showcase town.
He told of an apartment building, 8 stories tall, insulated to the max, modern and comfortable...
In the basement was a Ford V-8 gasoline engine (I don't know if it was converted to Nat Gas... it should have been) that provided heat and power to the building. When the building didn't need the electricity, it was sold to the grid, when it was needed, it was consumed locally, when that was insufficient, grid power was blended with local power.
I'm not sure how heat demand was modulated.
But for the Germans, it seemed to make economic sense.
-AC_Hacker