| Title | Geothermal Application in Europe - Overview on Agriculture |
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| Authors | Kiril Popovski, Sanja Popovska Vasilevska |
| Year | 2008 |
| Conference | International Summer School |
| Keywords | agriculture, technologies, economy, development |
| Abstract | If being initially one of the most important directions for development of direct applications of geothermal energy in 80-ies of last century, agriculture is recently the field of application with the biggest stagnation. There is practically no new projects in Europe during the last 10-15 years. Reasons can be located in lack of adequate economically justified technologies, complicate maintenance and exploitation, environmental problems and, most of all, absence of governmental support and good organization. It is possible to state that most of them can be easily overcame by the use of a right approach to the problem and, based on the reached experience, to justify re-opening of a new process of development with significant economical and environmental benefits for the regions where hydro-geothermal resources are on disposal. |