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Subway Heats Homes

Posted February 05, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Plenty of heat builds up in the London Underground subway system from trains and people. Now the government is trying out a new program that uses heat from the Northern Line to keep more than 500 homes warm in the borough of Islington. The London Daily Mirrorsays the Underground Project is the first of its kind in Europe.

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02/06/2014 7:35 PM

Yes, the warmth wafting up from the subway (tube), and surely the sweet smells of urine-soaked stairwells, . . .

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02/07/2014 10:41 PM

That sounds like the beginning of a new game show.

NAME THAT SUBWAY!

Do London's subways smell different from New York City Subways? Are the Paris subways different. It is played just like Name That Tune. Only instead of hearing notes, You get to smell a subway.

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02/08/2014 3:24 PM

I think you are onto something . . .
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