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If you want to stay warm in the winter, move to the city of Västerås in Sweden. Because when energy runs out, they have a battery that can keep the entire city warm for two additional weeks. Not an electric battery, but a cave with 100,000 cubic metres of water, used for storing heat.

This project has delivered energy security while cutting CO2 emissions.

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Why a city in Sweden filled these caves with almost boiling water

Somewhere below the Swedish city of Västerås, there's a big man-made cave. During the Cold War, it was used to store oil. But the local energy company decide...
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Jaakko Niemi
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It's not that uncommon:

vantaanenergia.fi/en/projects/…

Also:

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Sand Batteries provide heat to district heating networks in Finland | Solarthermalworld

Polar Night Energy is the only manufacturer with a solid-particle storage system among the companies of the survey with a commercial project. The company from Finland promotes its storage system […]
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Nicole Parsons
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Freedom from fossil fuel dependence saves the environment, but also saves democracy itself from fossil fuel funded fascist movements.
cleantechnica.com/2024/07/30/t…

counterpunch.org/2023/09/22/wh…

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The alternative to ditching fossil fuels is a path to perdition, world war and an extinction level event.
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The End Days? World War, Tech Takeover, and Global Warming - CounterPunch.org

One can be excused for worrying over what tomorrow might bring as expanded battle lines are redrawn across the globe, the world’s wealthiest nation ever consumes itself in a cataclysm of partisan hate amid a growing digital reformation, and unchecked…
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Jan Antoš
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@xChaos I think you might be interrested, looks like nice continuation of our conversation few days ago.
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Richard Quinn
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"The whole project cost 15.5 million US dollars ― an investment the company, which is owned by the city, hopes to recoup within five to ten years."

NB "which is owned by the city" ⬅

In the UK it would be done by a foreign-owned PLC ( #inwardInvestment ). It would go way over budget and way over time. And it would cost five times as much, with much of the money going to shareholders, directors salaries, bonuses, …and fines.

#capitalism vs doing it properly

#capitalism #inwardinvestment
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