Mine Water
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| Originally published | February 28, 2002 |
| Authors | Paul Younger |
| Editors | Steven A. Banwart |
| Robert S. Hedin | |
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| ID | 2966432 |
About Mine Water
Nowhere is the conflict between economic progress and environmental quality more apparent than in the mineral extraction industries. The latter half of the 20th century saw major advances in the reclamation technologies. However, mine water pollution problems have not been addressed. . . .
The plan to make a giant hot water bottle underground
... This Mine Water could be heated up further, perhaps by a heat pump system, before being distributed along pipes to nearby houses, where it would warm radiators or provide hot water...
Could super-sized heat pumps make gas boilers extinct?
... In the same way that warmth can pass from one person to another when they shake hands, the warmth from the Mine Water is transferred into another liquid that circulates in the heat pump system...
Houses are heated by hot water from flooded mines
... He said, in the right circumstances, the cost is the low-carbon could compare with the gas – Mine Water heating-but not free of carbon is because the water is heated by a heat pump works like a refrigerator in reverse...