Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

The Rhine is the second-longest river in Western Europe, discharging about 100,000 cubic feet of water a second into the North Sea. It snakes through the Swiss Alps and makes up large sections of Germany’s western border with France, spreading out across a major delta in the Netherlands before emptying into the ocean. It’s also an enormous, largely untapped resource for clean power. As the BBC reports, a German energy company called MVV Environm…