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Thanks for this, I had never heard of qanats or wind towers.

I'm imagining a giant modern qanat running underneath a city or a large dense neighborhood and each structure reaching down into it to feed a ground-source heatpump in the cooler water like roots. Everything fed by solar panels on the roofs.



This is a close description of the latest urban heating and cooling grids, sometimes called 5th Generation District Heating Networks.

https://5gdhc.eu/5gdhc-in-short/




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