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Warming Manchester and Salford

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Bannish snow Both cities, just like Birmingham, have extensive canal system is dating back to the industrial revolution.  Where the water acts like a massive solar collector.  Collecting low grade thermal energy. The clever trick is to use a heat pump which concentrates heat or cold: it is how your freezer creates cold from the warm air of your kitchen!  If you feel at the vacuum fridge, there is a hot radiator!  Losing the low grade heat at high temperature! We collect the heat into a low pressure gas, at 5° C.  Then we increase the pressure on the gas, and suddenly we are losing the same heat at 50° C! Concentrating the pressure on the gas, scales the absolute temperature in proportion to the pressure; the absolute temperature is degrees Celsius, first 273. If we were to double the pressure on the gas, the absolute temperature would shoot up to 546° C: it skills were absolute temperature!  So for the French to work we only need to increase the g...