THE GEOTHERMAL OPPORTUNITY IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
Spain & Portugal Could Survive Just On Geothermal Energy
Luis Gonzalez, June 18, 2014 (Clean Technica)
“Spain could obtain all the energy the country needs…[from its 700 GW geothermal power potential, according to An estimation of the enhanced geothermal systems potential for the Iberian Peninsula from the University of Valladolid (UVa)]…The idea of geothermal energy is very simple; use the heat of the Earth to boil water, like any nuclear or thermal plant does, and use the steam to produce electricity. 24 hours a day, constantly…[The Iberian Peninsula] areas of Galicia, western Castilla y León, the Sistema Central mountains, Andalusia, and Catalonia have the greater geothermal potential because at a depth of between 3,000 and 10,000 meters the temperature exceeds 150°C, and that is enough to get a geothermal plant to work…[700 GW is five] times the current electrical power installed in Spain…[but it requires the controversial, fracking-like enhanced geothermal systems technpology. Without EGS,] Iberia could profit from 3.2 GW of capacity…” click here for more
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