The Regent's Canal's "underfloor heating"

Quick and rough video - Running under the canal path along a long stretch of the Regent's Canal are high voltage mains electricity cables, and they give off just enough heat that during winter months, snow and ice won't settle on the path -- it has underfloor heating!
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/...

[@paulbrouyere1735]

It should be known to the public that only 40 % from electricity produced is coming out of the socket in your home. All the rest is lost in heat to the environment. That’s why we need local production, especially for heating applications, specifically solar boilers, but also wind energy and pv cells.

[@pk7969]

Really interesting, thanks Ian.

[@PeterGaunt]

Thank you for this, Ian.

[@stephendavies923]

Great to find your YT channel here Ian. Having followed you through your website, via email, Facebook etc and recommended you to many others, will you now be doing more here on YT? If so I will happily pass this on to my friends. I enjoyed your write up about the West Ealing to West Ruislip parliamentary train as my friend and myself were also on it though as for the compensation aspect, which I am sure was very valid, I thought, Nah I am British we just move on at these times 🙂 All the very best to you.

[@timlewis6749]

The cables are actually cooled using water pipes laid alongside the electricity cables. The water is pumped along these at pump stations situated along the canal identified by their adjacent outfalls into the canal. This is why tou occaisionally see water spouting out from the towpath when these puoes develop a leak :-)

[@ianvsits]

Yeup - more details in the link in my article about it.

[@Christopher125]

Is this still true though? I remember reading about a project to remove them as they were life expired

[@ianvsits]

There's a project to remove them, in the future.

[@Ironbuket]

If you talk just a tiny bit slower, you might give enough time for the words to come out