Please see the first 18 minutes on a recent broadcast on Japan national news this weekend about using groundwater and geothermal for snow melting in Japan.  The president of this company visited us several years ago.  

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/2091047/

Yu-Feng Lin

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