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- Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics. Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as "the perfect environment" for growing food such as vegetables and herbs. The initiative is seen as a way of providing large-scale crop production for a growing global population.
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Dec 2, 2018 · Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as "the perfect environment" for growing food such as vegetables and herbs. The initiative is seen as a way of providing large-scale crop production for...
Dec 21, 2018 · John McKenna. Coal mines and inner-city tunnels could be transformed into farms to help feed the planet’s growing population. Academics are exploring the use of abandoned mines and other subterranean facilities in the UK and China as alternatives to traditional agricultural land. “There are millions of redundant coal mines and tunnels in ...
Dec 10, 2018 · With the ever-declining demand for coal around the world, there are over 150,000 coal mine shafts that are abandoned in the UK alone – but they might soon be given new life in the form of...
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Mining engineering expert Professor Yijun Yuan, together with Professor Saffa Riffat from The University of Nottingham, have established a project focused on the potential of abandoned coal mines across the UK and China, which could turn mine shafts in underground food farms. Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as “the perfect environment” for growing...
One of the most successful heating projects so far is the Minewater initiative, in the municipality of Heerlen, the Netherlands, which demonstrated how the geothermal energy stored by mine water can be used as an alternative ecological way to heat buildings. Two wells were drilled in the village of Heerlerheide to a depth of 825m beneath the ground...
In April 2020, the European Commission signed a grant agreement for €17m allocated to the Dutch initiated ‘Water-Mining’ project, which aims to demonstrate innovative water resource solutions. The project is led by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, with the participation of Brunel University London, and it is working with a public-...
Disused mine shafts around the UK could also be used as giant gravity batteries, capable of reacting to grid demands in under one second. In 2018, startup company Gravitricity received a £650,000 grant from non-departmental public bodyInnovate UK to turn abandoned shafts in storage for massive weights. As part of the plan, when energy is plentiful,...
Mar 3, 2021 · Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as “the perfect environment” for growing food; advocates say that subterranean farms could bring up to ten times as much as the yield of traditional farms.
Dec 4, 2018 · Former mine shafts and tunnels have the perfect environmental conditions for farming and could produce up to ten times as much food as farms above ground. A seven square meter shaft can return 80 tonnes of food per year.
