New tech inside: Europe needs to embrace ground-breaking geothermal technologies
By Igor Kočiš | GA Drilling May 30, 2022 from euractiv. viathefreeonlineshared with thanks
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The new REPowerEU Plan presented last week by the European Commission is the latest proposal of measures that would speed up the transformation of Europe’s energy landscape..
The dependence on fossil fuels imported from Russia may be the most pressing issue tackled by the proposal. For the first time, geothermal energy has been included as a mainstream solution to address the challenges associated with both Russian aggression and climate change.
This is good news. only deep geothermal energy can offer not just gigawatts, but terawatts of clean and sustainable baseload energy needed by industry and large-scale district heating and cooling.
Deep geothermal energy can be harvested almost anywhere – at depths of 5 km and more. The problem is that the…
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