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> The difficulty of adding more ventilation is the lack of space above ground to put new ventilation shafts. This is always going to be a problem for the older
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> The difficulty of adding more ventilation is the lack of space above ground to put new ventilation shafts. This is always going to be a problem for the older tube tunnels except on rare occasions when a surface development takes place at just the right location and agreements can be made to include a shaft down to the Underground
Sounds like we need to knock down a few houses. This isn't unreasonable for critical infrastructure.
Also sounds like giving people free ground source heat pumps along the tube line would be best - they would be pumping out the heat thats in the clay. The article talk about a scheme, but this needs to be done at scale