Subject: [permaculture] District heating systems in Siberia was Re: Russians in this PC list. Are there any and if not, why not?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:03:11 -0500
On 7/20/2016 3:34 AM, Lawrence London wrote:
But we would hardly move to Siberia, where life is an unremitting
struggle
against the cold.
One of the interesting things about life in Siberia is the prevalence of
district heating systems, where an entire neighborhood or village is
heated from a central plant. While I am certainly not an expert on the
subject, my reading is that such systems are more efficient than the
typical modern house which has its own individual heating system. One
of my thoughts about urban permaculture is that district heating and
cooling systems, coupled with superinsulation and other passive systems,
would be a useful way to lower the energy consumption of cities. To
some extent, this happens in central business districts, where there is
often some form of district heating or cooling available. Downtown
Oklahoma City has that "amenity".