Julia Simon
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862 appearances
78 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 14 Sep
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So Mayor Johnston says that he has this big vision for this boiler plant and the system it was a part of.
So how are they going to do this?
The city is re-engineering some of this old underground pipe system.
Instead of sending steam around, they're going to send water around.
which is more efficient because right now the steam loses a lot of heat before it even gets into buildings.
Under the city's new idea, they will use water as this source of energy to heat and cool buildings.
And to do that, they're going to use something called a heat pump.
Oh, we love our heat pumps.
We climate nerds.
So basically, these buildings will be looped together with a network of pipes full of water.
If a building's too cold, the heat pumps suck out heat from the water in the pipes.
If the building's too hot...
The heat pumps dump that extra heat into the water and cool the building down.
And also, the buildings, they share heat between one another.
So if, say, an art museum is overheated, for example, the heat pump can dump its excess heat into the water and then that water can flow into a nearby municipal building where another heat pump could draw that extra heat to warm up.
You're just not wasting heat.
And that efficiency means that the city will end up saving money using this system.
So how far along are they?
It's still early days.
Denver's climate office hopes two buildings will be heated and cooled using a version of this system in the next year or two, plus a sidewalk snowmelt system.
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