Why the Czech town Litoměřice now boasts central Europe’s deepest (geothermal) borehole (Radio Prague International)
Czech geologists and geophysicists have been hard at work drilling the deepest geothermal borehole in all of central Europe. The borehole, on the outskirts of the northern Bohemian town of Litoměřice, is a staggering 1.6 kilometres deep – so far. The ambitious project is part of an ongoing effort to wean the county off of coal, which pollutes the air and accelerates global warming.
But it’s all part of an overall aim to make practical, and eventually cost-effective use, of the boundless geothermal energy produced by Mother Earth. If all goes well, another borehole in Litoměřice will go even deeper to tap that renewable energy source.
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