Body heat, another new source of energy?
There is a fact that we all have to live with is the realization that energy costs could continue to rise, and we have to develop new energy sources to offset this cost. A new and highly unlikely source of energy is “body heat”, and a company has successfully converted it into a cheap and viable source of energy.
Dependence on non-reusable fossil fuels like oil and natural gas is slowly leading to higher energy costs, and despite the rhetoric about creating viable new green energies, most of us are still too dependent on their use.
This has led to a higher cost of living and, in a time of austerity, a reliance on nations that export these still valuable resources. Leading to higher food and heating costs. The challenge is to create and develop cheap energy sources that reduce this dependency, and a company in Sweden may have found an answer.
Sweden is known for its cold winters and lacks the natural resources to provide cheap energy to its citizens. Dependent on the importation of oil and gas, a local company based in Stockholm-JErnhusen– Put the words into practice by developing their own energy system, which uses body heat.
Stockholm’s main central station regularly receives more than a quarter of a million visitors every day. Each person omits excess body heat, which is generally “wasted”, but Jernhausen created a system in which the heat from these people was channeled into an adjacent building and, in fact, supplied all their energy.
The system uses old and outdated technology that was retrofitted to move from one building, station to another simply by allowing heat exchanges in the station’s ventilation system to convert excess body heat into hot water. This in turn is transferred to an adjacent building, reducing energy costs by more than 25%.
A curious aspect of this innovative use of a viable new energy source is that Jernhausen we are a private real estate company and have created a new viable energy source, rather than a specialized energy company.
Body heat could also be collected today, in any urban center like a station or an airport, which in turn could develop as more countries adopt and improve this technology. It is sustainable, relatively inexpensive, and most importantly, it could be used in any area where there are large numbers of animals or people.
As the technology used to create energy from our body heat develops, we can begin to imagine, farms that provide their own energy through excess body heat from the animals they raise, or offices that in the near future they could provide enough power to be autonomous. -sustainable and independent.