Saturday, May 2, 2009

2010 Olympics

Organizers plan to heat the athlete's village at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, by using the sewer system. 

The sewer-heat system uses exchangers to extract the otherwise waste heat from the city's sewage. The heat can then be used to warm up buildings and provide hot water. Natural gas will be used as a supplemental energy source on exceptionally cold days. 

There are only two similar sewer-heat recovery systems in operation in Norway and one in Japan, but Vancouver's would be the first in North America.

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