Neither wood, nor gas, nor coal: The first town in Europe heated from a hot lake is in - Serbia (Telegraf)
A remote heating system that uses geothermal energy instead of conventional energy sources has been put into operation in Bogatic. A source whose output is 25 liters per second, with water temperature of 75 degrees (centigrade), is now being used to heat a primary and a secondary school, a kindergarten, a court, a social welfare center, a utility company and a police station.
A huge geothermal lake [reservoir] was discovered at depths between 500 and 700 meters nearly a decade ago in this poor municipality, after which seven exploratory wells were dug. Since then, geothermal energy has only been spoken about as a great potential, wasted in the absence of ideas and resources. It's estimated that tens of millions of euros of valuable thermal energy have since evaporated.
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