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  Monday, 23 August 2004

Toronto pumps near-freezing lake water into its summer office-towers < 1:31:17 PM>.

Cory Doctorow: A MetaFilter post links to several information resources on Toronto's new innovative downtown cooling system, which pumps near-freezing water from Lake Ontario's deeps through the city's office-towers, eliminating 40,000 tons of CO2 pollution per annum (no word on whether there's an environmental impact to pumping the atmosphere-warmed water back into the lake). [Boing Boing]

Part of this project takes place across the street from where I work. They've had a lane of traffic blocked for some time as they do the installation.