Greener Living
British Library Turns to Solar Thermal to Preserve Shakespeare’s First Folio
Project installing solar thermal tubes on the roof of the UK’s national library will cut carbon emissions and keep valuable manuscripts safe
Solar thermal collectors on the roof of the British Library in London.
Source: Naked Energy
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The British Library has some valuable charges to keep safe – Shakespeare’s First Folio, two copies of the Magna Carta and manuscripts by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë.
Now those treasures have been entrusted to a new solar thermal system that maintains the right temperature and humidity levels to preserve the library’s historic books, by using heat from the system to control the amount of moisture absorbed by silica dehumidifiers while cutting its annual carbon emissions by 55 metric tons.