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My hometown has a power plant in city center. During winter it uses the entire downtown area as a heat sink. It's great. Power plant gets cooling for its hot wa
by Swizec 4y ago
My hometown has a power plant in city center. During winter it uses the entire downtown area as a heat sink. It's great. Power plant gets cooling for its hot water, city residents get cheap heating for their homes.
Best part is you don't even care about heat loss because you're trying to get rid of all that heat anyway.
This scheme has been inplace since the 60's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Power_Station
District Heating is quite popular in much of the world. USA built the first such system back in 1853. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
- teruakohatu 4y agoGiven how much health problems are caused by coal power plants, not sure it is that great to live near one. But if you have to have coal, it makes good sense to harvest the energy rather than wastefully pumping the steam into cooling towers.
- Swizec 4y agoI mean it’s already there and has been for 60 years. I’m sure its polution pales in comparison to the 200,000+ cars driving in the area daily. Back when the coal power plant was built it was pretty normal to live near coal burning things.
- stephen_g 4y agoUnless it has a lot of flue scrubbing, it's likely to be far, far worse than 200,000 reasonably modern cars in terms of things like fine particulate matter emissions, NOx and SOx emissions, etc. which are the real bad ones for health issues.