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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
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
