โฒ 86 โผ These flooded coal mines are being used to heat hundreds of homes (www.euronews.com) submitted 2 years ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to c/europe@feddit.de 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] chrizzowski@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) So a water source heat pump tapping into mine shafts, neat. Run the heat pump off wind or solar, have a decent thermal envelope to lower overall demand, voila emission free heating and cooling. Sounds promising to me. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) Could pumped hydro be combined for energy storage from offshore wind? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago* Of course, easily. Switzerland has been using pumped water for storage almost a century. Here is one example: It doesn't use wind power exclusively for pumping but any surplus energy. In the past this usually had been French nuclear energy, in the future it will be mostly solar and some wind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimselsee permalink fedilink source parent [โ] chrizzowski@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I don't see why not, provided you have the geography to make it work. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works [S] 2 points 2 years ago* (2 children) Could pumped hydro be combined for energy storage from offshore wind? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [โ] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago* Of course, easily. Switzerland has been using pumped water for storage almost a century. Here is one example: It doesn't use wind power exclusively for pumping but any surplus energy. In the past this usually had been French nuclear energy, in the future it will be mostly solar and some wind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimselsee permalink fedilink source parent [โ] chrizzowski@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I don't see why not, provided you have the geography to make it work. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago* Of course, easily. Switzerland has been using pumped water for storage almost a century. Here is one example: It doesn't use wind power exclusively for pumping but any surplus energy. In the past this usually had been French nuclear energy, in the future it will be mostly solar and some wind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimselsee permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] chrizzowski@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago I don't see why not, provided you have the geography to make it work. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago Oh how the turns have coalmined. permalink fedilink source
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