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AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• activistPnk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would the materials have much more of a footprint than geothermal installations? Because that slight 7° difference between below ground temp and above ground temps apparently justifies the labor and materials for harvesting geothermal energy. So this seems to be the same but adding a cherry on top – incorporating a heat pump to add to the energy of a geothermal system.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would be a matter of scale. Geothermal has essentially infinite thermal mass, whereas this has a very limited amount of heat produced by bodies.

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