CHICAGO MUSEUM GOES GREEN WITH COGEN SYSTEM

摘要

The world-famous Chicago Museum of Science and Industry has a long history of offering entertaining and educational exhibits that demonstrate scientific principles ― an actual captured WW Ⅱ German submarine, a coal mine, a dairy farm, and a massive model railroad among a few exam-ples. With the recent installation of a 1.75 MW cogeneration system designed to provide up to 80 percent of the museum's heat, hot water and electricity, the museum hopes to develop the green installation into what may be the only working cogeneration museum exhibit in the world. While the goal of making the installation into a working public exhibit is still in need of funding, the new cogeneration system ― commissioned in late January ― has already started saving money for the museum on its energy bills.