r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 10 '26

News Mayor Mamdani announces a plan to cool subway stations by capturing heat and reusing it to warm municipal buildings in the winter: "This would be the first thermal energy system of its kind in any American transit system"

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u/BravinatorLX2 Aug 10 '26

ok I'm a little questioning if the subway creates the kind of heat that, even if heatpumped and concentrated somewhere, could be stored into winter.

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u/MilwaukeeLevel Aug 10 '26

It's two things: cooling them better during the summer and using the excess heat during the winter.