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Together, power plants and greenhouses can feed humanity

By Ronald Stein - posted Tuesday, 7 October 2025


The AI Centers, datacenters, power plants, and greenhouses will be operating for generations, providing good paying community jobs to parents, kids, and grandkids and food for the population.

The technology condensing flue gas heat recovery, provides beneficial use for heat and emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. This increases plant yield while reducing the economic costs of energy for the greenhouse.

Everyone WINS, with produced electricity and food.

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  • Increased Plant Growth: Elevated CO2 levels in greenhouses accelerate plant growth and increase harvest yields.
  • Reduced Energy Costs: By recovering waste heat from the exhaust for heating, operating costs for the greenhouses can be significantly reduced.
  • Sustainable Operation: This closed-loop system reuses byproducts, turning potential pollutants into a valuable resource for plant cultivation.

Greenhouse Benefits:

  • CO2 Fertilization: The carbon dioxide from the exhaust is naturally used by the plants, a process known as CO2 enrichment, which can significantly boost plant growth and yield.
  • Heating: The heat from the exhaust provides efficient heating for the greenhouse.

Utilizing the exhausted energy from power plant stacks is a Win-Win situation for all. All this is because the power plants improved their energy efficiency to 97% just by utilizing the exhaust - the heat and CO2 emissions. A good deal for everybody.

  • The new AI Centers and datacenters are going to create a lot of new jobs.
  • The new power plants are going to create a lot of local professional jobs.
  • The new greenhouses will help feed the world's growing population and create hundreds of new good paying jobs for the local community.

Utilizing waste heat that is normally exhausted from power plant stacks can support endless greenhouses to help feed the world's population. It also reduces wasting natural gas.

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This article was first published by America Out Loud News.



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Ronald Stein is co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. He is a policy advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and a national TV commentator on energy & infrastructure with Rick Amato.

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