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With just months to go before it opens to students and faculty, George Brown College’s Limberlost Place is poised to keep its air cool and its water hot by plumbing the depths of Lake Ontario.
An award-winning, 10-storey mass timber building, Limberlost Place will soon be connected to Lake Ontario by more than just the view, becoming the latest building in downtown Toronto to hook into the prodigious latent energy of its deep waters, reports CBC News.
Enwave Energy Corporation, a Toronto-based sustainable district energy provider, has been using the deep waters of Lake Ontario to cool city buildings since 2004, courtesy of three giant pipes that extend roughly five kilometres out into Lake Ontario at a depth of some 85 metres, where temperatures are a steady 4℃.
The pipes channel water to and from a downtown heat transfer station, which is itself linked to a 40-kilometre network of pipes that run beneath Toronto’s downtown core. In all, 180 buildings encompassing some 40 million square feet of real estate are now plugged into Enwave’s deep lake water cooling (DLWC) system.
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