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Tunnel vision: the challenge of cooling the London Underground (2018)
- zeristor 2y agoThere’s an article out there about TfL using regenerative breaking to store to use electricity from regen breaking to power an Underground station, prompted by a post on Caltrain. This isn’t that but it is an impressive article on its own.
- zeristor 2y agoIs it just me, but if there’s enough drainage send a train with hundreds of ice blocks, drop them off in alcoves along the tube tunnel and they’ll melt absorbing large amounts of heat. Maybe not 500 GW I grant you, and water and electricity need to be kept well apart, but sure some areas could be isolated. I’m guessing drainage is an issue, but there’s always a risk of flooding I would have thought there would be drains and pumps already there.