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How will the greenhouse industry utilize waste heat?
Author(s) -
Southgate Douglas,
Taylor Reed,
Uchida Stanley
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6297(198621)2:1<65::aid-agr2720020107>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - greenhouse , waste heat , greenhouse gas , waste management , environmental science , natural resource economics , environmental economics , business , economics , engineering , heat exchanger , mechanical engineering , ecology , horticulture , biology
Recent regulatory and economic change encourages waste heat use in the northern United States. In this article, the value of that form of energy to growers of greenhouse crops is assessed. It is found that production of rooted floricultural crops is likely to be the dominant activity at facilities supplied with waste heat. Waste heat utilization is unlikely to cause interregional relocation of vegetable production in the US.