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Natural Gas, Fuel Cell CHP system for $ 5000. Good deal?

(Electricity producers waste a lot of heat energy making electricity.
If you make the electricity @Home the useful heat is free rather than wasted.
Or; free electricity for the same heat)

This seems to be a quiet Natural Gas Fuel Cell that produces 4.2 KW of electricity and 7.5KW of heat, for 5600 USD.

That sounds like a good deal to me so far if I lived in a cold, cloudy area?

There are probably a whole lot of Import duties, fees, levies, etc?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-deta...1eef267abSyW9P

Here are other models of varying capacity:
https://sinopowerfc.en.alibaba.com/c...5cb7713btBa8rg

We don't have a gas supply network here, so it's not much use to me, but depending on gas and electricity prices in your area, this may be worth consideration?

I'm also not signed up on Alibaba (to chat) and want to avoid doing so, so haven't asked questions like: " do you just plumb it in downstream of your boiler? What about warm air for the HVAC system? etc...


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Check the purity needed. Make sure mercaption oderizer won't point the cells.
Living in a cool cloudy area where you need heat at night it's probably not a bad idea.
7.5kw of heat is a bit more than a full size clothes dryer.

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