The Underground Cooling
Website. -
An Information Resource on the cooling
of Mine
Workings, Transportation Systems,and other underground applications
We welcome relevant
articles, comments, links to relevant sites and of course sponsorship and
advertising. Make use of our Bulletin Board to
comment on the articles, suggest ideas and find or promote products.
We are also looking to sponsor an Engineering PhD student.
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The most technically
challenging problems are those facing the mining industry. In South Africa
the next phase of excavating in the gold mines will take place below 4,000m. New technologies
are needed to solve the heat accumulation problems. A very interesting
emerging technology is ice delivery.
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Bringing coolth* and relief to overheated travelers
and workers worldwide, on the Subway, The Metro or the Tube.
If we approach the 'problem' intelligently then we could simultaneously be cooling the travelers and providing winter warmth for Londoners.
We hope to 'hear' from people from around the world with ideas to make life
easier for those of us who have to venture into the bowels of the earth to
earn our daily crust.
Can we cool the underground and become greener at
the same time? Read on......
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The topic of Underground
Cooling is inextricably bound up with Underground Heat and Cold Energy Storage (UTES), in
fact the ground surrounding deep tunnels in underground transportation systems have absorbed hundreds of
GigaWatt-hours of energy, becoming an enormous energy store that we can use to our benefit
(if we are inclined
to do so).
Our cities are getting hotter and we need to get
serious and smart about managing and conserving BOTH forms of energy.
We encourage an environmentally
sound approach. Adding to London's already high levels of thermal pollution is obviously unacceptable.
Becoming Carbon Neutral is ambitious and very challenging - and vital.
There are
numerous applications for emerging underground cooling technologies, the long term underground storage of Nuclear
Waste is one.
* The opposite of warmth
