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Posted by Pinky Bean
on January 12, 2008 5:16 AM
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Filed Under: Energy |
A Swedish business is planning to harness the heat of 250,000 commuters to warm the interior of a 4000-square meter office building. Currently, Stockholm's central train station is heated by this method, but the leader of the project saw potential for more.
“We had a look at it and thought ‘We might actually be able to use this’,” said Karl Sundholm, project leader at Jernhusen, which also owns the station. “This feels good. Instead of just airing the leftover heat out we try to make use of it. The ventilator aggregates are already there, and even some of the pipes. All we need to do is complement with a few pumps and pipes.”
The building has the potential to cut energy consumption to half of what a similar building would use.
There is no word yet on plans to filter out accompanying body odor. Nothing like walking into work in the morning to be greeted by the stench of sweat and bus stink.
» MSNBC World News