German Combined Heat Power CHP Electricity Generation from Natural Gas
I first saw this electricity generation method in the video below. Now I understand how Germany is going to eliminate its nuclear generation plants. Russian gas and German engineering.
German energy company Lichtblick has teamed up with Volkswagen on a project to install 100,000 miniature gas power plants in people's homes over the next year. ( 2009 announcement )
Research Links
- Home power plants project unveiled in Germany – from 2009. They have been working on this for a while.
- Google: SchwarmStrom – swarm energy
- Google: viessmann home electricity generator – this is the company that made the equipment in the video above.
- Vitovalor 300-P from Viessmann – generate power and heat simultaneously using a fuel cell heating appliance
- Google: viessmann Heim Stromgenerator – in these search results you will find the fuel cell product in the German Amazon site. Cost = 30000 Euro.
- AmazonGermany: Viessmann Vitovalor PT2 11,2-30,8 kW Brennstoffzelle Mikro KWK Gasbrennwertgerät Hybrid (Leistung: 24,5 kW)
- Micro CHP unit based on a fuel cell – Vitovalor 300-P