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| (Courtesy CIA.gov) |
Almost 40 percent of Kazakhstan's territory is rich with geothermal hot water. The experience of its use is applied in many states, including Iceland, the US, Canada, and Turkey. In the near future, the first geothermal power station works on which have already started, will appear in Kazakhstan, bnews.kz reported.
Underground resources will generate electricity and heat.
A geothermal power station has a unique distinction which is its operation irrespective of a solar cycle, wind and other weather changes, important for Kazakhstan with an extreme continental climate. The station's efficiency is 96 percent, by 5 times higher than that of solar panels.
Meanwhile, following the preliminary data, the country has a sufficient amount of resources so to provide at least 1/4 of the territory with hot water.
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