Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have launched a new project, hoping to find a cleaner way to heat and cool campus buildings.
READ MORE:Engineers are now going well past that, in hopes of creating what you might call a “natural heat pump.”
At 400 feet deep, and about 8 inches wide, the borehole will give Soga and his team unprecedented access to the soil and rock beneath the campus. Depending on what they find, they’re hoping to use that bedrock for thermal storage; Taking heat from the warm summer months, and pumping it underground where it could be held by the rock, until it’s needed later.
It’s not like traditional geothermal which pulls heat from much deeper in the earth, but it could be an alternative to what the campus uses now.
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