This Nightclub Turns Body Heat into Energy - YouTube

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Serious doubts this harvests more energy than it wasted in materials

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  • 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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• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like to know more details on what they’re storing the heat in, and how the heat exchanger works. Seems like a neat idea though.

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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The heat is probably stored in water by using a simple counter flow heat exchanger. So at night they are using the ‘cool’ ground water for cooling and during the day, they are using the ‘warm’ ground water for heating, probably involving a heat pump.

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• activistPnk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because of Google’s DoS attack, those of us in the open free world cannot reach Youtube. So would someone please explain the concept in text?

  Is this it? → utahforge.com/…/did-you-know-that-scottish-clubbe…

  Seems like a great idea. Like using the body heat to boost geothermals.

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