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SOLARENERGY
The sun is inexhaustible source of renewable
energy. It is an ecology clean form of energy
as it is not polluting the environment and we
may use it limitlessly. The sun energy primari-
ly gives us the daylight and warmth, which we
may use for thermal and space heating or for
electricity.
Thepotential of thesunenergy exploitation for
theproductionof thewarm thermal waterand
electricity inPomurje is pretty high. There are
158 of solar collectors with a common sur-
face of 1004m
2
inPomurje.
GEOTHERMALENERGY
Geothermal energy is warmth, which is sprin-
ging up beneath the Earth for the sake of slow
decomposition of radioactive elements inside
the earth. It can be exploited by pumping di-
rectly from warm water or steam springs,
with the following cooling. The condition for
use of the geothermal energy is a tempera-
ture of the thermal water and regarding this
we separate:
• high temperature geothermal sources (t
wa-
ter
is over 150 °C)
• low temperaturegeothermal sources (t
water
is under 150 °C)
• low temperature geothermal waters loca-
tedall over thePomurje regionnamedgeologi-
cal stratum »Mura formation«.
INTERESTINGFACT!
By consuming only 1% of available geothermal energy of Pomurje, we would have more
then 1.900 GWt/h energy left in comparison with all the energy we are using today for
heating and electricity.
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