Lanchester Wines in Gateshead, northeast England, became the first private business in Britain to draw heat from disused underground coal mines. Two open-loop water source heat pumps with a combined 4-megawatt capacity now heat more than 33,000 square metres of warehouse space. Britain has around 23,000 flooded coal mines, a quarter of which sit beneath homes and businesses.
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Una bodega en el noreste de Inglaterra calienta 33.000 m² con agua de minas de carbón abandonadas

THE GUARDIAN

Lanchester Wines en Gateshead, noreste de Inglaterra, se convirtió en la primera empresa privada de Gran Bretaña en extraer calor de minas subterráneas abandonadas. Dos bombas de calor de circuito abierto con 4 megavatios de capacidad combinada calientan más de 33.000 m² de almacenes. Gran Bretaña tiene unas 23.000 minas inundadas.

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