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Solar Panels at the British Library

Image courtesy of the British Library

The British Library has installed solar panels on its roof, which went live last year.

The panels are a mixture of solar hot water, and some solar electricity. The installation was especially tricky because the Library building is Grade 1 listed (the highest level), and the new solar panels weren’t allowed to be seen from the street.

In the past 12 months, they have generated 186 MWh of heat, and 14.8 MWh of electrical energy.

The British Library needs a lot of heat to generate steam which allows them to closely control the humidity levels inside, which is required to help preserve the historical documents that they store.

The British Library is aiming to be Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Oliver Yu Chan Art Jun 7

View of Somers Town, London

#somerstown #london #euston #cocktavern #somersgallery #floricanto #somerstownmuseum #oliveryuchanart

donAlvar_en

Feb 2, 2024

This wee museum is amazing. Near St Pancras station, come and see it when in London. #LocalHistory #RadicalHistory #PeoplesMuseum #SomersTown https://aspaceforus.club/

PEOPLE'S MUSEUM – A SPACE FOR US! Somers Town Radical Changemaker Finalist

Michael Edwards Nov 28, 2023

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We need a sculpture lifting ..over 8 foot. Any ideas or help?
With the amount of construction stalled at HS2 Euston, someone must have spare equipment 😉
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David Perris Aug 18, 2023

The Francis Crick Institute, London, August 2023.

The Crick Institute is a biomedical research centre in central London, directly behind the British Library and across the road from St Pancras Station. It was opened in 2016.

It is named after Sir Francis Crick, co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of the structure of DNA.

They do research into cancer, heart disease, stroke, and degenerative diseases.

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David Perris Aug 18, 2023

St Pancras Old Church, Somers Town, London, August 2023.

Sitting between the old route of the buried River Fleet and the railway line into St Pancras Station, there has been a church on this site since Anglo-Saxon times.

People buried in the grounds include composer Johann Christian Bach (son of Johann Sebastian Bach), architect John Soane, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of author Mary Shelley) - although she is now buried elsewhere.

Also of note is a collection of gravestones assembled by author Thomas Hardy (*Tess of the d*'*Urbervilles*) from when he was working as an architect during a time when part of the churchyard was being resumed to enable extra railway lines to run into St Pancras Station.

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