> >Hmm. Sounds inherently ineffecient unless they spend a lot of money on >thermal insulation. Otherwise a good portion of the energy will go into >heat into the rock when air is pumped. The rock will then be cooled >slightly when the air is released. Pump cold winter air into a nice relatively warm cavern, stir it around for a while, and... :) -- Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org I would have a link to http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?KC6ETE-9 here in my signature line, but due to the inability of sysadmins at TELOCITY to differentiate a signature line from the text of an email, I am forbidden to have it. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads