it's from washington, dc, and that's it from me and the new steam fund. all i have uh will do is update for you at the top of the hour. of course don't go wipe, plan today is off. next i'm gonna have office in for land from me and the whole use the export, the d, w, travel l over the sides of a history, food honest with inside it just local high, nice. well, let's go from here we go lower. so when it comes to sustainability information and trying to do that, when you travel can, you can have it all on executive. it has to check the bags. so you're planning a trip to make sure you miss nothing about is on the w travel. i hope you enjoy the

trip here as much as i did about you. what's your opinion? feel free to write your thoughts and the comments of this city and sweden by look on assuming that somebody knows something truly extraordinary is hiding just insight in a secret location. the local energy company built a giant underground thomas, and that was a long process. even the king swung by to check it out. these caves used to store a hidden oil stash during the time of the cold war. and now they flooded them with water and go to to near pointing point to build one of the largest p batteries of its kind. and we came here to tell you why we invested wells a bit more than an hour drive from the capital stucco. it's a city of about a 160000 people and it's pretty cold about to minus 2 degrees

celsius butts. in the middle of winter, i can get much, much colder here, even below minus 20. so people here take the heating really seriously pretty much old houses see of 98 percent of them are connected to pipes like be a huge network of 900 kilometers just the city. and the main purpose is people will instead of having a small boiler in each home down several huge boilers and the local power plants that heat the entire city through pipes like these sweeten, has a proud history of building systems like this called district teaching. and even though the idea is fairly old, this is the big cold for keeping people warm in the future. but learning very little to no fossil fuels. that's because district teaching networks can be switched to renewable heat sources, for example, of biofuels like woods or heat from the us or the son. that can also tap into heat

that would otherwise go to waste, such as from dots ascentis. the system invested was one of the largest in sweden has been run by the local energy company, rely in the heat since the 19 fifties and that's what we have to say. hi. hi. this is louisa glanced and he'll be taking us on the ground. she's in charge of the company's heat and electricity strategy. so when's the last time you've been down there? i've been the process of september when the key will fit to do the honoring opening of the gate. it's a tough act to follow for me. i think the oppressed officer and an engineer are also coming with us to be able to fill in the caves. we have to agree to one thing that location has to remain secret. you won't find it on google maps and yes, we've tried. so why come with tell anyone what exactly is the case of

this? we an energy production site, and so it's because of security reasons. okay, so we also can show the drive now. so we'll do the cops here and then we have the case. so here you can see down where the average starts. and here is where we should get rough. let's go. so we're heading down to about 25 meters. so here's the rest of this. there is free, so if something goes wrong, we only have to climb up. well, what? so we want to be fit if you want to be these tunnels lead to 3 men made real case today is the so the hot water tanks, but they have a turbulent and troubled history. the iron put the united states and the soviet union stand on the verge of direct military confrontation. throughout the 19 sixties and seventies,

the cold war had the world and its grip. sweden had declared itself unusual and independent. it was essential to have enough fuel to keep the country running in case of full scale war broke out. so it started to stop pile. and that's why the case invested also what builds to store oil. the amount of organs used for a whole year was kept in here, but after the cold war and not have any use for us. and it's been sitting here since then up until today. because it turns out these caves can fix a big problem that a lot of cities around the world have. this is festivals, this pilot plant, it's a so called code generation plants, meaning it produces electricity and heat at the same time. so it's a very efficient way to use fuel normal power plants that just produces electricity vents of fuel. to create spe, this has been used to drive the turbine, but much of the heat that's generated in this process simply gets lost, cooled away. only about 40 percent at best of the energy that's stored in the fuel

gets used, the rest is wasted. a combined heat and power plants like the one invest those uses up to 90 percent because it reuse us the otherwise loss pete's and turns it into hot water. this can get feds into the district heating system distributed by the pipes we saw earlier. so people can heat the homes and have for the water. and the powerful spirit night to 6 is 3 and what's going on, or you don't in the oil crisis and we convert into cold. and then during those years since that we have with more and boilers and printers and now we use waste hotel waste. we use, we use what would the has been something and then also biofuels. and this power plant is the reason why they filled up the caves with water during the summer. or we need to have the power plant running because everyone's best house hot shower, even on the warm summer days. but to keep the plan running needs to produce

a minimum amount of hot water of more than can be used up in the summer. and in winter, it's sometimes con, produce enough heat, especially on really for us. the days when it gets colder, we need to fire up another power plant. so the idea of was simple, but ingenious. why not dust off those big caves they had done to the city and to turn them into a giant heat battery that can store the extra heat from summer? so it can be used to keep houses warm in winter. but now it's getting really want. you can see those 95 degrees for just underneath us if the one of the cabins. ok. so the heat is coming, coming out from the ceilings from the mountains because it goes to like outside to minus a degree. and now if this feels like you're in a summer holiday, that's what i can do like it. yeah, exactly. instead of oil the case and now storing heats when the power plant

produces more than the safety needs the what's inside the caves gets heated up to 95 degrees celsius. the bedrock, make sure only little of that heat escapes. it will say like a service like the coffee and the service order will also say that one cold days when the city needs more heat than the palatine can provide the heat, stored in the case can be used to pete. people want, i don't use it started up and now the boy in there eh, and indiana, those boilers are reserved boilers for those really, really cold days. are did wrong on fossil fuel and without heating to heat. so soft for make them start, we can reduce our c, o 2 emissions. all 3 caves together can store enough heat to keep the city warm for up to 2 weeks depending on the outside temperature. and that's what they're doing right now. that's all the noise. i'm still working now it's taking the

water from the top of the cavern and thinking to the you said stranger, this transfers the heat from the what's in the caves to the water that's running through the district teaching network. now unfortunately, this is as close as we can get to the case. that's because the fields and thankfully, so on the other side of the deal, you have the concrete, the concrete. because on the, on the side there, there's a 100000 cubic meter of 95 degrees health walker. so if it's not our company we own, we were as you can imagine, converting an old oil deposit into a heat storage cave was a big undertaking. now the 1st one you will have to do was to open it up because they've been close down for over 50 years. and then when we're opening up, we have to clean them from all the oil that was in there. and that was the long and sticky process, but then after that we need to do all the pricing said needed to be inside the case

because now we can reach them anymore. so after that was done, you steal it up again and started to fill up with water that's allowed to move in 5 months as the capes hold as much water as almost a 100 limping sized swimming pools. the whole project cost $15.00 and a half a 1000000 us dollars and investment. the company, which is owned by the city, hopes to recruit within 5 to 10 years. because every time they using the heat stored in the caves, the savings and fuel, we use it almost every day in some capacity. sometimes we are really nice or own cold days. we're using it to the distribution. of course, the company says the cabins can save $1600.00 tons of c o 2 emissions per year about as much as $460.00 people in sweden limits. in the grand scheme of things. this might not sound like that much. but if that were most orange caves like hits, that could make a difference. so it's great to large stores this is incremented and we get the more

expensive from it because it's a spin band, a retired professor who sweetens go to guy on district teaching to people to try to avoid risk and don't have to take risk. so if somebody has taken the risk and it's been successful, then you have thoughts. of course not every place has abandoned oil storage sites just sitting around. but it's also possible to build caves from scratch, like this project from finland, just doing its pencil be 3 times bigger than the one investor was scheduled to start operating in 2028. the nordic countries have huge potential to build lots, small capes storage. we have a crystalline bedrock and it's ideal to, to, to make larger cabins and these can, to uphold the bedroom this. so the conditions fluid is kendall. so as you have seen, how car superior can sweet and then turns out and also involving. and it's also called the other places that take those boxes like parts of canada and the us could explode rock, kevin storage as well. places with less the bedrock have to store heat different

things. you can also heat up natural, underground layers of friction, rock, sand, or gravel, that whole ground floor top which you access by drilling wells that's being done in many places in the netherlands and also in gemini. actually, it's polymer building a seat. it this way. and speaking of drilling, another technique is to make bull holes up to several 100 meters deep through which a hot fluid is circulated. this eats up the surrounding rock solar clay that then stores the heat. or it's possible to biggest huge pits lined it with water proof material and use it to store hot water. the key in denmark for smaller amounts of feats, lots of things like this one investor was, can do the trick as well. it's 11 times smaller than the underground case and the list goes on. district 8 is very local. you have to have the local solution to your local settings, the underground. so in this investor, those proofs that storing heat in a cave is possible on a large scale and it can become a role model for other places looking to level of the heat. again,

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