BOB HOLMES reports that Daniel Stinger and Farouk Mian have set up a company in Sugar Land, Texas, to market a way of harvesting energy from waste heat using a “cascading closed-loop cycle” (Â鶹´«Ã½, 29 May, p 21). Accompanying the article was a picture of chimneys belching steam and smoke, with the caption: “They might soon be belching electricity.” It stirred me to ask energy minister Stephen Timms if his department was following the Texan technology.
Timms said his officials were in contact with the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive and a manufacturer of large generating…
