Dutch Company Siphoning Heat from Asphalt for Energy Uses

Treehugger reports on how a Dutch company is collecting solar energy from a road and parking lot to power an apartment complex.  To quote: the heat stored from 36,000 sq ft of pavement during the summer helps keep a 160,000 sq ft-industrial park warm in the winter.

Can’t find it on Google, but I recall an article on the mechanism of using solar energy to heat underground silos filled with water.  Under pressure, the water could receive nearly unlimited amounts of heat during the summer, which would pump through the stadium in winter to both warm the air and keep the soft dome inflated.  Adding to that, my elementary school principal gave me a tour of his retirement home, showing how he had water pumped beneath the ground and through his walls to receive or transfer heat and to add extra insulation.

Three different levels, and price points, for using natural forms of heat for efficiency.  Seems a combination of these could easily be adapted to all forms of habitat and architecture.  Especially given the amount of pavement every region of North America, Asia and Europe currently own.  Finding a way to put it all to use would certainly create a gain for the world’s energy pool.