Cold this winter? Not as cold as Siberia!

Gosh, that is cold! But individually heated flats in an apartment block using over 200 fossil fuel boilers (but only as a revolutionary modern innovation, in apartments built since 2010). I’m assuming “gas” as we currently understand mains gas?
 

Makes us seem quite innovative in the UK with our drive to reduce domestic gas (heating)  emissions!  Granted, with winters some 40 degrees warmer!

There are extensive natural gas fields under Siberia - and Yakutia, the town/city in that video, is a big centre and the start of a major pipeline.

I'm guessing that it all went to export though and it's only relatively recently (2010) that the locals are benefiting.

I suppose that if we lived there then tackling Global Warming may not seem a big priority.

Certainly not the “…Warming” part!

But I wonder what fuelled all those central heating Boiler Houses, if not local gas?

It is certailnly a different take on running a community heating scheme, but TBH not that different just larger in scope.

I believe that Scandinavia has similar geothermal hot water networks in some towns and cities, and a few geothermal schemes have been tried here in the UK.

Newcastle/Gateshead comes to mind for some reason.

Edit- https://research.ncl.ac.uk/geoenergy/themes/geothermal/

A bit more technical: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2022/02/conversationundergroundheat/