Mary Lynn and I went on a tour of the Louisville Mega Cavern today. We've been wanting to do that for some time now and finally got around to doing it.
It was very interesting. I was surprised at the amount of people that went on the tour. I would guess that there were around 35 - 40 people on our tour, and they have tours every hour on the hour from 10:00 to 5:00.
There are several experiments going on in the Cavern, raising crops, worm farms, and I'm sure others they didn't mention. They say they are the state's largest recycler. Old asphalt, concrete , tiles and such are hauled there and used to build the roads inside and fill in the spaces raising the floor so that the ceilings aren't so high. They use the cavern for many things. Mostly storage. People store boats and cars there. Many companies use the place to store their products. Some companies are actually putting in their production facilities there.
It maintains a constant 58 degrees temperature. They say that offices there would not ever need to heat or cool their rooms. The office machines that are always on, computers, etc., would provide enough heat to keep the temperature around 70 degrees.
There was even a movie on the tour. The screen was a concrete pillar put in an area where not enough natural pillars were left to support the roof. It was a short movie, from the early 60's, about a nuclear attack. This place would have been one of the shelters. But, only certain people would have been allowed. It would hold 50,000 people, but they would be specifically picked for their contribution to rebuild a new society when they could return to the surface. I'm sure I wouldn't have been one picked. One of the pictures above shows the area that would have been inhabited, with a lot of dummies set up. They picked this area because of the steady supply of water filtering down from the surface.
It was interesting.
2 comments:
Not only was it interesting, but it was also quite chilly.
I had no idea this was even in Louisville. Interesting!
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