It has been quite a while since I last posted an article on onebluesphere, for which I apologize. The season has changed since my last article, from a soggy monsoon to a chilly winter. And it is the chill of winter that lays the foundation for this article. The northern half of our one blue sphere is experiencing a harsh winter, with whole swathes of north america and europe covered in snow and whipped by blizzards. People are fighting the cold with whatever means they have, but the Swedes up in the north of europe have found a way to heat a building using nothing but human body heat.
Human beings constantly produce body heat and a significant portion of it is radiated into the air and is effectively lost. Now, according to the BBC, researchers have devised a way of trapping the excess body being emitted by commuters at Stockholm's main train station and using the energy to heat an adjacent building. The whole system is based on the idea of heat transfer, and is plain elegant. According to the scientists involved, the idea behind the system has been in place for a long time, but the innovation they have added is the transfer of the heat energy radiated by the commuters to an adjacent building. This leads to significant cuts in the energy costs of the building concerned, making it both an environment friendly as well as a economy friendly means to meet energy needs.
This unique approach will hopefully find many more takers in the region, which otherwise consume huge quantities of fossil fuels to heat up homes and offices during the winter months. Onebluesphere is all about spreading awareness about this kind of innovation, and hopes that everyone gets inspired by such green technology to strive towards a cleaner and greener earth.
To read the full article on the project, go to : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12137680
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