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Hot & Cold Streams and the Minimum Approach Temperature

Classifying every stream on a site as hot or cold, and the ΔTmin concept that governs how close they can approach each other.

10 min read · Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead


Before you can find a pinch, you need to describe every stream in the process the same simple way — and understand the one parameter, the minimum approach temperature, that governs how close any of them can get to each other.