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A comment on Switzerland's ingenious cooling caves. Parent comment

Re:Switzerland's ingenious cooling caves by s1artibartfast on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:06PM (#31588122)
Hey, I think it is an interesting concept and open to to ideas. Thanks for your ideas, my engineering brain would just love a picture of the physics
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Re:Switzerland's ingenious cooling caves by carapace on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:16PM (#31588247)
IANAGeologist, but my understanding is that when a steady wind blows from underground it's often due to a naturally occurring trompe: water flowing underground entrains air bubbles which collect in caverns and leak back to the atmosphere. Trompes can be quite large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe

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