Croatia starting geothermal power generating project!

[thewayne]

This is REALLY cool, or I should say, hot!

They've discovered an underground lake, 2.4 kilometers (about 1.5 miles) that has an average temperature of 142 degrees Celsius! Keep in mind that water boils at 100 degrees C at sea level. I'm guessing the plan is to drill down to it and capture the pressurized heat to drive turbines generating electricity at ground level.

Not free energy, but darn close! This will be a fantastically inexpensive power source for Croatia - they're expecting 16 megawatts of power production, enough to supply "tens of thousands of homes"! And obviously it's going to cost a lot of money to build the power plant and to interconnect the generating station to the grid.

https://thenextweb.com/news/croatia-geothermal-energy-plant

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/10/12/018250/croatia-wants-to-turn-superhot-underground-lake-into-a-16mw-geothermal-power-plant

Comments

[thewayne]

THAT is an absolutely awesome fantasy!

[acelightning73]

We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last June. And we're still in love. I sometimes tell people "it's our differences that keep us together" - we don't get in each other's way. We are interested in different things - he laughs when I watch dance contests on YouTube, with very young girls in inappropriate dresses do the conga and the rumba and the cha-cha-cha with partners their own age. And I laugh when he curses at the screen when the stock market goes down.