[Neuman]

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I totally agree that the city is wasting this infrastructure. I was reading back a few months ago how 300 North LaSalle is going to use cold river water for its air conditioning chillers, instead of conventional refrigeration units to cool the building during the summer and then return the water to the river. This is a great idea and will result in enormous savings of energy for the new building. Now couldn't the freight tunnel system be used in a similar role, delivering cold water pumped from the river to land locked properties like a giant radiator and then returning it back to the South branch? I believe this idea would result in substantial energy saving for the area, and we already have the network of tunnels covering this densely developed area that would most greatly benefit from this kind of large scale environmental planning.