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Creating energy from mine runoff

05/23/2005 9:14 AM

Former mining communities are attempting to harness energy from warm water within shutdown mines. Heerlen in the Netherlands and Midlothian in Scotland are pilots within the the Mine Water Project. The hope is that Heat Pump technology can extract energy from geothermic heated water retained in the mines. This will serve two purposes - generation of clean energy and revitalization of economies devastated by mine closure.

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Scottish Faults

05/23/2005 9:53 AM

I wonder if they can only do this in areas where there are faults. I notice that Scotland was listed quite prominently in the projects website. Scotland has a ton of old volcanoes so there has to be a ton of geothermal activity.

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