How about blankets and a heat source if power goes out?

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CHP, or cogeneration, is not a single technology but rather a suite of technologies that can be mixed and matched in many ways to provide high-efficiency, low-emissions source of heat and power from a single process.

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Or they can transport heat from an external source of power and manipulate it to cool a surface.

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