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Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

Hello, welcome to this week's Naked Scientists.

This is the program where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine

and talk to the biggest movers and shakers in the field. With me, Chris Smith.

And this week teaching an old mine new tricks, obsolete workings are being repurposed in the name of science.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.

Today we're going to talk about mining and not so much about modern day mining but what we can do with the literally thousands of derelict or legacy mines that are left behind

across the globe by the old-timers from yester-year. Because it turns out that some of

these incredibly deep, incredibly hot and incredibly well shielded environments dating from in some cases

hundreds of years ago are actually the perfect places in which to cite 21st century technologies. We'll learn about the system that turns old mine shafts into gravity

batteries capable of powering towns, the project deep underground to detect dark matter and other

exotic cosmic particles and projects to

clean up the environmental impacts of old mine workings. But first to give us a

sense of the scale of what lies beneath here Here is Gavin Mud, who's from the British Geological

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