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America’s strongest economic engine can become more competitive by accelerating adoption of energy efficiency, boosting cogeneration, and increasing on-site renewable supplies of heat and electricity.

Industry Executive Summary

Reinventing Fire describes the cost-effective energy savings that are available at each step of the industrial value chain. READ MORE

• Wide adoption of energy-efficient technologies

  Energy efficiency across the myriad industrial processes and products can be boiled down into a recipe that can enhance a company’s cost advantage over less efficient competitors. LEARN MORE »

• Integrative design to make big savings cheaper than small savings

  Integrative design can be extremely effective in a giant industrial plant’s pipes and pumps, its ducts and fans, and its drivesystems, but can also be applied to basic process design. LEARN MORE »

• Thorough use of Combined Heat and Power (cogeneration)

  Expanding combined heat and power (CHP) beyond official forecasts presents a huge opportunity to profitably displace nearly 60% of the nation’s 2010 coal-fired electricity. LEARN MORE »

• Fuel-switching

  Industry routinely switches fuels in response to relative prices or shortages and seeks to cut costs and hedge risks, and switching from coal to natural gas for process heat is no longer unusual. LEARN MORE »

• Dematerialization and closed materials cycles

  Redesigning products to accommodate remanufacturing can create major new business opportunities while drastically lowering industrial energy needs to provide the same services. LEARN MORE »

• Emerging revolutions in biomimicry and additive manufacturing

  Life’s designs have been honed by 3.8 billion years of evolution and rigorous product testing, and can teach profound lessons about how things should be made, how they work, and how they fit. LEARN MORE »