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Paris Metro Body Heat To Help Warm Building

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Awesome.

via http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/59417

The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city center, the capital's largest owner of social housing said Friday.

The building, located in the famous rue Beaubourg close to the Pompidou museum, is being renovated in an environmentally friendly way.

The system will complement district heating.
 
Speaking of naturally generated climate control, wouldn't it be nice to connect subway stations to the Enwave system? Now that would remind us of the incredible network of tunnels below downtown. There has to be more potential to use that system for the public good. But it starts with educating the public of its existence and the specifics of the infrastructure. Not information has been officially released about it, though.
 
Cool idea if they could make it work. I was in Paris over the summer and it is scorching hot in the subways.. they don't have A/C anywhere! (tunnels, platforms, or trains) & when it is 35+ outside it feels like 40 in the subways.
 

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