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France temporarily shuts down three nuclear reactors over heatwave (www.france24.com)

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Toronto downtown is 75% cooled in summer by cold lake water. Since 2004.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

I heard Paris is also looking at using river water to control temperatures which I find quite cool.

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