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Its how the local hospital here is cooled during the summer. Large pile of snow which is covered in wood chips. Apparently it generated 1345,3 MWh cooling energ

Its how the local hospital here is cooled during the summer. Large pile of snow which is covered in wood chips. Apparently it generated 1345,3 MWh cooling energy in 2002.. http://www.snowpower.se/sundsvalls-kylanlaggning_en.asp http://www.snowpower.se/sundsvalls-kylanlaggning_en.asp

foota 9y ago
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Luc 9y ago
Picture: http://miljonytta.se/byggnader/lagrad-sno-ger-fjarrkyla/ http://miljonytta.se/byggnader/lagrad-sno-ger-fjarrkyla/ (Site's down for me)
mschaef 9y ago
Cornell does something similar, using Cayuga Lake as a heat sink for their campus cooling: https://medium.com/cornell-university/lake-source-cooling-d307913dfc47 https://medium.com/cornell-university/lake-source-cooling-d3...
- mthoms 9y ago
  As does the city of Toronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_water_source_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_water_source_cooling
- iaw 9y ago
  I heard that they actually changed the temperature of the lake that way.