Something like this could be used at oil wells. Some wells burn the excess gas. This could be used to run the pumps in theory
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See the article above. What say y-all.
you cannot believe the incredible amounts of “waste” heat generated in the production of oil and gas in the oil field.
All production from wells make some degree of heat which is never utilized. Most of it comes from the water which is almost always associated with oil production.
Many schemes have been tried to take advantage of this.
guess my take is that if one has enough waste heat in one single place, there might be some benefit.
I would not hold my breath, though.
I have worked geothermal energy sources and there are tremendous amounts of heat that prove difficult to economically produce, albeit, some are successful