Photo by lydurs
Newcastle is digging a big hole for itself.
When I say a big hole, I mean a biiiig hole. 2,000 metres straight down, to be exact.
The plan is a first for a city centre site in Britain: to tap the geothermal energy below ground and provide heating to nearby buildings.
It's not a new technology - Iceland meets the heating and hot water requirements of 87% of all it's buildings in this way.
(In fact, Iceland has so much geothermal energy it heats the pavements of Reykjavik during winter - see the photo below!)
Hopefully the Newcastle project will prove to be a relatively cheap resounding success, and spur other towns around the UK to dig their own big holes.
1 comments:
Lets stop drilling for oil and start drilling for hot water instead that's what I say :-) These technologies are there for us to use. Good on Newcastle!
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