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Nora Kadas Period 7 scrAPES #5 (Photo by Jeff Pachoud) Article Summary Unrelatable to Texans, many Europeans struggle to heat their homes during freezing and harsh winters. However, recent discoveries indicate that heat sources underground could be used to combat this problem with polluted thermal groundwater. This would reduce the need for fossil fuels and therefore combat global warming as well as providing warmth for people, reducing two problems with one solution. Although the water warmed through heat-pollution would solve an air-conditioning problem, worries have arisen because of the water’s possible toxicity, containing

arson. Heat-cycling is a new solution, with many possibilities but many things to tweak before committing to heating homes through this method. Opinion of Article This article addresses concerns around global warming and generates solutions through scientific studies to combat two problems (freezing houses and fossil fuels) without asserting many biases. The author of this article has a Master’s degree in geology and a Master’s degree in science communications, so he is a qualified scientist and scientific journalist who understands implications about solutions as well as how to execute heat-cycling. The author’s tone is excited and optimistic about heat-cycling and how to channel thermal pollution into something productive. The author shows the amount of potential and recent discoveries by interviewing the hydrogeologist behind it, but also explains to the reader that it needed work and more research to safely execute. So What? What now? The amount that uses heat pollution to heat homes depends on the efforts to prevent climate change and carbon emissions. The more efforts to reverse climate change, the less heat pollution, therefore less heat recycling. Climate change is projected to peak in 2040, which would mean that the maximum amount of homes could be heated in 2040. Hopefully, it is a temporary solution to home-heating due to climate change going down. But before implementing the plan, tests or labs must be done to ensure chemicals and elements, such as arson, are not in the water. Another good way that heat could be recycled is through cars, so that fossil-fuel emitting cars are also using polluted/waste material. Maybe a device that extracts heat from water could be implanted and then changed when it no longer works.

References Ogasa, Nikk. “Underground heat pollution could be tapped to mitigate climate change.” Science News , 18 July 2022, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/underground-heat-pollution-buildings-climate-chang e. Accessed 1 December 2022.

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