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I wonder if they could bore some geothermal loops to move the heat someplace else to dissipate more easily.
by maherbeg 3y ago
I wonder if they could bore some geothermal loops to move the heat someplace else to dissipate more easily.
- eesmith 3y agoBeing done. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cooling-the-tube-engineering-heat-out-of-the-underground-20873/ https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cooling-the-tube-engine... (from 2017, 59 HN comments from 2022 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31694445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31694445) says > Elsewhere, they’ve been using cool groundwater to cool some of the stations. An experiment at Victoria station was the first, as water from the River Tyburn was used to cool the air in the station. This was only an experiment, but at Green Park, a permanent version was installed in 2012. > There, five boreholes were drilled deep down into the ground, and here cool water is sucked up to the surface, used to cool a separate water supply which is pumped down to cool the platforms, and the warmed groundwater is also pumped back into the ground.