📅 Save the date! Join us week commencing 27 April 2026 at the IEA Mine Water Energy Symposium, for two days of talks from global experts on mine water heating, cooling and storage schemes worldwide. ♨️ More details soon.

SAVE THE DATE ! We are back in person for the MINE WATER ENERGY SYMPOSIM 2026 in Newcastle-Gateshead UK www.iea-gia.org/event/2026-m... wkbg 27th April 2026 - actual dates TBC soon

Sheds. Engine sheds. Potting sheds. Garden sheds. Wood sheds. Bike sheds. Boat sheds. Another date for your diary- an exhibition at Turner House Penarth with Lee John Phillips about our shared love of sheds; open Jan the 15th; evening reception on the 16th. More details soon!

Go Vancouver ! Good to see more interest in mine water heat in Canada esp since they had some of the first schemes in the world in Nova Scotia ....https://www.uvic.ca/acet/projects/cumberland/index.php#ipn-people

useful study based on interviews with residents about a mine water heat network theconversation.com/how-heat-fro...

I do wonder why this resource isnt used more - groundwater levels in Cardiff only a few m below ground making pumping costs and drilling cheap www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our mine water heater living lab is busy collecting data and it’s all free and open access ! Summary here coalauthoritywebfolder.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/Gateshead+Li...

Examining the Feasibility of Mine Thermal Energy Storage (MTES) in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18...

Wet dog walk this morning in #penarth 😳

watch a mine water energy centre being constructed in time lapse ! will heat 750 home once complete www.linkedin.com/posts/mining...

if you have an 'I news' subscription have a read of this: inews.co.uk/news/environ...

Mike Korb on mine water heating and cooling in the states - www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jJ...

Thanks to @aberuni.bsky.social for highlighting the phenomenal hard work of Drs @geomicrosoares.bsky.social @sararassner.bsky.social and team in mapping the microbiota of the South Wales coalfield. Prospects for future energy emerges from the legacy of fossil energy. academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Interested in de-risking underground thermal energy storage? BGS is forming a consortium to investigate how site-scale geological data can be used to optimise storage scheme performance. Sound interesting? then we would love to hear from you: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/join-ou...

Big report from DESNZ and ARUP - Levelized costs for Geothermal in the UK - deep, shallow, mine heat and closed loop - great stuff www.gov.uk/government/p...

Really useful report from #Pennsylvania JSGC - lots of opportunities for #minewaterheat ! - Unearthing the Potential of #Geothermal Energy Systems in Pennsylvania www.jsg.legis.state.pa.us/resources/do...

Can’t keep up with the garden tomatoes this year - bumper crop for once !

BGS has launched the UK Geothermal Platform, which provides national- to local-scale information on geothermal potential. Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...

slides from the recent 'Abandoned Mine Pools' conference in PA, USA. Including the legendary Mike Korb : www.shamokincreek.org/conference2025

Untapped heat from a mine water treatment scheme now providing low-carbon heating - tinyurl.com/2s4z4p79 #Aspermont #MiningRemediationAuthority #UK #MineWaterTreatment #Geothermal #LowCarbon #Wales #ThermalEarthLtd #HeatExchangers

I often hear that it is too difficult to drill into coal mines ....to de-risk this perception we looked at over 500 boreholes drilled into mine workings showing they can have high success rates - our open access paper is here lnkd.in/eVgFwjTe #minewaterheat #geotehrmal #netzero #coalmine

Love this time of year and quite a lot of bugs around for a change !

all the talks from the last Mine Water Energy Symposium are now online www.iea-gia.org/workshops-an...

Looking forward to attending and speaking at this event later in the week #Fife #MineWaterHeat our.fife.scot/plan4fife/ad...

Did you know that you can now view all ~80 of our mine water treatment / control schemes and also see how much low carbon heat it could be possible to recover from them ?! just follow this link and click on 'mine water heat' in the top blue ribbon datamine-cauk.hub.arcgis.com

Also some great coverage of the Thermal Earth Ltd mine heat recovery scheme in this months Heat Pump Today magazine heyzine.com/flip-book/He...

Will be on BBC Radio Wales before 8am today talking about Wales’ newest mine water heating scheme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tune in or take a read below ⬇️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

Murder in the garden !

New paper from Alley Sweeney at Durham Uni - as it happens our Living Lab boreholes are based in this area so should contribute to wider understanding in due course ! www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

Hot Stuff ! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Reducing food waste by taking home a plate of food from a meeting / can’t believe I forgot my Tupperware or I’d have filled it to the brim 😉

Got to say the Mine Water Energy symposium 2025 was brilliant - the speakers and the range of work just fascinating ! Thanks to everyone that made it happen :)

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲? 🌡️❄️🔥💧 Let's dive into fluorescent dye tracer tests! 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵: BGS '𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸' (𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘱𝘴://𝘸𝘸𝘸.𝘣𝘨𝘴.𝘢𝘤.𝘶𝘬/𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴/𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨-𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺-𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩-𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦-𝘪𝘯-𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘨𝘰𝘸/)

A rare chance to don my boots and help get some samples from various mine waters in south Wales - I’m in my element in the field (esp in the sun!🌞 )

8 year old me couldn’t resist buying this 😂

one week to go !!!! Dont forget this amazing symposium is free and has talks on mine water heat from across the World - one not to miss - you can sign up below #heat #netzero #minewater #heatnetworks #coalfield #energysecurity

What do you do when three of your mine water sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring SOB, while all other sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring FeOB and the pattern can’t be explained by any of the measured variables? You start digging! doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Another PhD paper out! 🎉 Me and @sararassner.bsky.social looked into microbial communities (16S rRNA gene amplicons 🧬) of the south Wales coalfield across time and geography to uncover their ecology, intrinsically connected to regional hydrology and hydrochemistry. 🦠

Open access: Hydrogeological and geological partitioning of iron and sulfur cycling bacterial consortia in subsurface coal-based mine waters academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

Ground source heat pump to provide heat to the Durham Miners Hall - a circular energy story if ever there was one : www.oakesenergy.co.uk/durham-miner...

More from Jingy et al - worth a read: theconversation.com/how-mine-wat...

Goat moth larvae in St Mellons - worth recording ? @gmtord.bsky.social

Digging out and old floor in the house (bit of weekend DIY !) - dog can’t wait to get involved - only a few more tonnes boy keep going !

The #MineWaterEnergy2025 programme is now live! Join us for two days of talks from global experts discussing geothermal energy, with a focus on mine water heating, cooling and storage schemes worldwide. View the programme here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

new paper from Jingy Li et al -'Equity or profit? Understanding the social sustainability challenges of mine water heating network implementation' worth a read - open access below www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #minewater #minewatergeothermal #minewaterheat #geothermal #heatnetworks

Mine water energy symposium 2025 program is now live !remeber thisnsymposium is FREE drive.google.com/file/d/1U5lH... #minewater #geothermal #netzero #heatpump

Reminder that this special issue of QJEGH is still open for submission for papers on mine water energy www.lyellcollection.org/topic/collec...