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jabl on March 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heat Pumps Work Miracles

In my city, about 10% of the district heating load is covered by heat pumps where the heat source is municipal waste water.

Scoundreller on March 1, 2019 [–]

Toronto does this for district air conditioning with incoming city water.

I don’t think they’ve bothered to calculate the effects of pumping warmer water into everyone’s air conditioned home...

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