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Re:Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town by froddd on Thursday March 14, 2024 @03:30AM (#39701342)
The fact I find most fascinating is that they have a local district heating system reusing heat produced from local industry. That’s efficiency on another level.
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Re:Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town by apexalpha on Thursday March 14, 2024 @05:10AM (#39701768)
I think that's pretty common, no? Here in NL our district heat comes from a chemical refinery a few clicks away. For them the heat is an annoying waste product.
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Re:Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town by m4rtink on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:07AM (#39702039)
Here in Brno, Czech Republic, 25% of the city wide heating is provided by the municipal waste incinerator.

There are also a few cities that get heat into their networks from nuclear power plants and something similar is planned in the future for Brno as well.

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