SOLUTION UNDERGROUND
The National Maritime Museum has a hidden exhibit that is providing an innovative source of low carbon energy. Andy Pearson investigates
grave marker of Bounty mutineer John Adams – these are just some of the unique artefacts housed in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Now, with
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aptain Cook’s journals; the log-book of Robert Maynard, the man who killed the pirate Blackbeard; and the
the opening of the Sammy Ofer wing, the museum has one more piece of history to add to the list. The wing is home to the UK’s fi rst major aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) system. The big difference between the ATES
system and the museum’s other unrivalled exhibits, however, is that the ATES is not on public display. Far from it: it uses a heat pump and the ground water deep below the museum as a giant thermal store to deliver a low carbon heating and cooling solution to the new wing, which makes it particularly suited to this historic location.
The ground beneath the new wing of the National Maritime Museum acts as a giant thermal store to provide heating and cooling for the building
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