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| Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh of Nottingham Trent University led the study |
Researchers found that lukewarm water could be ‘condensed’ to provide additional heating, or cooling to local buildings.
A ground source heat pump takes water from an abandoned mine shaft and brings it to the surface where the heat can be extracted using a heat exchanger.
This is condensed and enters a heating system similar to central heating where the water is heated to a higher temperature, whilst the groundwater is replaced in the mine where it is then reheated by the geothermal energy.
