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Take full advantage of geothermal jersey shore resources you can. A roadmap estimates that the geothermal district heating you could meet a quarter of the heat required to Europeans. Italy, a pioneer in the industry, underground fluids with low enthalpy found almost everywhere, has lost its role also due to the many non-technical barriers.
Europe really want to do without Russian gas and that from other parts of the world turbulent and unreliable? jersey shore Well, to point underground, but not to extract the problematic shale gas, but to take full advantage of its geothermal resources. This was stated by the RHC Platform, a sort of road map developed by the European Technology jersey shore Platform RHC (Renewable Heating jersey shore & Cooling), a consortium of companies and research groups in the geothermal sector.
At the moment our continent draws just 15 GWh of thermal energy from the heat to low and medium energy produced from underground, largely through heat pump systems, and 5.56 TWh of electricity from geothermal energy at high temperature. But they are small change in the face of its potential. According to the report, only following the current trend, in six years you should get geothermal 40 GWh of thermal energy, and within a decade jersey shore the amount of electricity produced with the underground fluids should at least quadruple, bringing production to a dozen TWh.
"But in the long run - explains Dario BONCIANI, who works with the COSVIG, the consortium of municipalities Tuscan geothermal - estimates indicate, using existing technologies at competitive costs, the ability to provide you with the geothermal district heating even a quarter of the heat required to Europeans. jersey shore Of course, some countries, jersey shore like Italy, would be particularly favored, but our country is also one of those who seem less interested in this resource. "
In fact, very surprised to find out that the countries 'ripe' for thermal jersey shore uses the heat of the earth are to RHC Platform, Austria, jersey shore Norway, Germany and France. While Italy is among the 'emerging', together jersey shore with Spain, the UK, Hungary, Romania, Poland and the Baltic States. A good result for those who geothermal invented over a century ago, in Larderello.
"We have downgraded, it is true, but in the end we deserved. Across Europe jersey shore there are 237 geothermal district heating. In Italy, as well as those that serve residential areas and production activities in the two geothermal areas of Tuscany, there are only geothermal district heating Ferrara and Vicenza. And there would not even those, if it were not that old exploration wells were used for methane, instead they throw hot water, "said BONCIANI.
But low enthalpy fluids would be present almost everywhere in Italy, often easily accessible. As elsewhere, in Germany, in Switzerland, in France, they are going to even try to kilometers deep (in Monaco have dug a pit of 3000 meters to get water at 120 C, with which to obtain 3 MW of electricity and heat for hundreds of houses), we seem to be unaware of the wealth that runs under the foot.
Neither the European Commission is aware of this: in its recent report on how to respond to problems related to Russian gas has even forgotten about the possibilities offered by geothermal energy. But the EU Commission in part, because in Italy we sleep on our rivers underground heat?
"The causes are many. In the case of deep drilling, which go to look for high and medium enthalpy resources, but that cost millions of Euros for each well, the main problem is called 'mining risk', ie the possibility of puncturing and not finding suitable resources. Of course, the modern geological knowledge and appropriate exploration, may reduce the risk. And it is also true that then with those fluids can be produced, in addition to heat, electricity, a very valuable asset that can be quickly recover the investment. But today in Italy few are willing to invest capital in this relatively risky. So since 2010, the year in which Enel has lost its monopoly jersey shore in the industry, have been awarded dozens of research permits jersey shore but no one, apart from the Enel, he still asked for a grant of 'cultivation'. jersey shore In France, to obviate the risk mining, have instead established specific insurance policies, which we do not exist. " For example, in Paris they just opened Aqualagon, an amusement park with water at 30 C that fishing from a geothermal reserves to 1800 meters deep.
But, at least in Italy, we could take advantage of the low enthalpy water for district heating, which, as evidenced by the countless spas, are present almost everywhere in our country. There is still responding to the representative COSVIG.
"Of course. Rome itself, jersey shore for example, is in the midst of a high-flow