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How much heat are we talking about? I'm guessing it wouldn't be enough to use for district heating, the way some industrial waste heat is converted to hot water
by Tharkun 9y ago
How much heat are we talking about? I'm guessing it wouldn't be enough to use for district heating, the way some industrial waste heat is converted to hot water for homes?
- manmal 9y agoThe original source [1] has a graphic at the bottom where it says about 300m kWh per year currently, so about 34MW on average if I didn't miscalculate. 1: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube-engineering-heat-out-of-the-underground/ https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube...
- eru 9y agoIt's very 'low grade' heat, ie the temperature is rather low. Not useful for electricity generation nor much good at heating.