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Cooling the stations is not an engineering challenge. It's a budget challenge. Installing and operating huge chillers is a solved problem.

• SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
  > Cooling the stations is not an engineering challenge. Installing and operating huge chillers is a solved problem. Not correct in context. You cannot successfully chill air without having a place to vent the resulting waste heat. Where, in deep tube lines, to vent the waste heat, is _not_ a solved problem. It _is_ an unsolved engineering challenge. The heat has been accumulating there for decades. As detailed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38364027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363476
  • NegativeLatency 3y ago
    At a certain point it seems like there'd be enough stored energy to justify some heat pumps for nearby building heating.
    • SideburnsOfDoom 3y ago
      If that was easy, it would have happened already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38367176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38367176