Very good.
At the home level, steam can generate power to charge a large battery system. Thus a home can have power at night and even for a few days when the sun doesn’t break through.
A pipe system can be utilized to bring heat into the home too. If that can be used for twenty-30 days per month, it can greatly reduce furnace costs.
Water can also be channeled into the kitchen or bathroom, saving the cost of heating water there.
I’m not a big green freak, but these kinds of things appeal to me.
I’m more of a site generation supporting person, rather than a large utility supporting person.
If we each took care of our own power needs, there would be no large blackout situations. No more than one home would generally have power problems.
If you’re generating your own power, you could charge your vehicle on the system too.
People can say what they want, but I grow very tired of having a big utility dictate to me what new regulations I’m going to have to abide by, while they busy themselves thinking of the next layer of regulations.
Screw that...
I don't think that would be efficient enough (read economic) to be cheaper than photo-voltaic. You are adding multiple components including rotating machinery that take more space and maintenance. Modern Solar Cells have made a lot of gains in the past decade.
A pipe system can be utilized to bring heat into the home too. If that can be used for twenty-30 days per month, it can greatly reduce furnace costs.
In some of the cold climates, but the system needs to run all year if there is a chance of being economic. Now you have even more waste heat to find a way to reject. Speaking of, you need more than a steam generator, you need a condenser to cool the other end of the loop, or you need a huge water supply to less efficiently release to the atmosphere.
People can say what they want, but I grow very tired of having a big utility dictate to me what new regulations I’m going to have to abide by, while they busy themselves thinking of the next layer of regulations.
You can do without them, but you cannot begin to do it as cheaply and reliably as they do. I am an electrical engineer, specialized in power system. I have remote property that I have tried for years to come up with an economical design for power.
It remains far cheaper to build more than a mile of power line twisting and turning through the trees and ravines than anything I could begin to do myself for a full size home.