Keeping schoolchildren warm - with Whiskey
This is actually legit. From
Scotsman.com:
Whisky to keep school warm
The comforting power of whisky may be well known, but using Scotland's national drink to keep schoolchildren warm may seem a little controversial.
Fortunately, Edinburgh City Council is not suggesting Tynecastle High pupils drink the spirit to benefit from its heat.
But, from 2010, the replacement building for the existing high school will use waste heat from the North British Distillery next door.
The new school, to be built on McLeod Street in the capital, will use an innovative system to cut its energy bill dramatically.
Water supplied from the school will pass through a heat exchanger to be warmed up by the waste heat produced by the distillery.
The scheme will cost £200,000 but is expected to have paid for itself in energy savings within four years.
And this is not a new idea:
A similar project at the Bowmore distillery in Islay heats an adjacent swimming pool.
Very clever problem solving on the part of the distillery and the community government. You need 'X' amounts of heat energy to distill a given volume of whiskey and the process is not 100% efficient by a long shot. Why not recycle this for other uses.
Posted by DaveH at November 25, 2007 6:51 PM
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