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[Bateluer]

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1981919,00.html

It's 7:30 a.m. on a wintry morning in downtown Stockholm and a sea of Swedes are flooding Central Station to catch a train to work. The station is toasty thanks to the busy shops and restaurants and the body heat being generated by the 250,000 commuters who crowd Scandinavia's busiest travel hub each day. This heat used to be lost by the end of the morning rush hour. Now, however, engineers have figured out a way to harness it and transfer it to a newly refurbished office building down the block. Unbeknownst to them, these sweaty Swedes have become a green energy source: "They're cheap and renewable," says Karl Sundholm, a project manager at Jernhusen, a Stockholm real estate company, and one of the creators of the system.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1981919,00.html#ixzz0lD01ibxH

Bold, creative, wonder how well it actually works.

 

[sandorski]

hehe, nice. Pretty neat stuff.

 

[StageLeft]

It's neat putting the heat elsewhere but really, as mentioned in the article, this has been done before (bodies to make heat). In fact every building in the damned world that has people in it and heating on at the same time is in some capacity using heat from warm bodies to assist in warming the space.

 

[Lemon law]

It's neat putting the heat elsewhere but really, as mentioned in the article, this has been done before (bodies to make heat). In fact every building in the damned world that has people in it and heating on at the same time is in some capacity using heat from warm bodies to assist in warming the space.

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Skoorb is correct, I used to know a building engineer as a friend who wrestled with such questions, but the real curse comes in the summer when extra air conditioning capacity
must be added in to remove the heat from all those warm blooded mammals.

But I suppose going green could solve that problem too.