A project in Bavaria is harnessing high temperatures from deep beneath the earth to provide a community with warmth in the winter and to power the local grid in the summer

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Geothermal can be used for cooling by using earth as a heat sink. Toronto cools and heats it’s entire downtown core with loops deep in Lake Ontario because a lake of that size is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than ambient. It was not a “green” project, it was simply cheaper.