31st may 2017The Jubilee Pool, Penzance, will re-open on Saturday – a week later than…
Bid to heat Penzance Jubilee Pool using underground geothermal energy hits a snag
By Anne North The £1.9 million project to heat the open-air Penzance Jubilee swimming pool by tapping into the natural energy of underground hot rocks has hit a potentially serious…
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Yet to see a good-sized hot rocks project come to fruition. Let’s hope the Eden proposal has more success. What with the wave hub being a white elephant, Cornwall is not doing too well with its alternative energy aspirations at present.
A brave attempt to harness natural heat due to excessive water at a shallower depth than needed… A setback rather than a catastrophe at least they tried… I wonder if the water encountered contains any lithium?… That really would be interesting.