Dutch company Ooms Avenhorn Holding BV is creating a new concept Road Energy System® (RES).
RES lays the collection system within concrete . The piping connects to underground storage areas. The water is then transferred into the storage area. On demand, in cold weather, the hot water is used to heat buildings and to keep the road above freezing. After cooling, the water is moved into cold storage to provide air conditioning for summer months. A year round solar/geothermal heating/cooling system for both the road and buildings. The renewable combo greatly reduces electricity requirements and the cooling,heating of the road reduces maintenance requirements.
Solar Energy collected from a 200-yard stretch of road and a small parking lot helps heat a 70-unit four-story apartment building in the northern village of Avenhorn. An industrial park of some 160,000 square feet in the nearby city of Hoorn is kept warm in winter with the help of heat stored during the summer from 36,000 square feet of pavement. The runways of a Dutch air force base in the south supply heat for its hangar.
2 comments:
The 35W bridge that collapsed in Minnesota also had some sort of heating system in it.
Hmm, interesting.
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