| Title | Life and Energy in Carpathian Basin: Social and Environmental Mission with Geothermal Power Generation |
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| Authors | Gyorgy Horuczi |
| Year | 2009 |
| Conference | GeoFund Workshop |
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| Abstract | Hungary and some territories of its neighboring countries, like Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia in the Central Europe, are located in the Pannonian Basin. The Pannonian basin is a Neogene extensional setting formed between the Carpathian and Dinaride thrust belts within the mega-suture zone of the African and European plates with a relatively thin crust; 25 to 35 km thick. The basement of the basin consists of higher thermal conductivity Precambrian-Paleozoic-Mesozoic rocks. The basin is filled with lower thermal conductivity Cenozoic sediments, the thickest sequences formed during the upper Miocene, Pannonian age. The Pannonian sediments are multilayered and composed of sand, shale, and silt beds. While the lower Pannonian sediments (e.g. clay, silt, marl) are impermeable, the upper Pannonian and Quaternary formations contain vast porous, permeable sand and sandstone beds formed by the upper Pannonian aquifer. Hungary and its neighboring countries have different primary energy structures but the common feature of those is the critical hydrocarbon dependency. Social life is getting worse because of the increasing energy prices hat has mayor impact on different industries as well, utilizing high portion energy in related technologies. The year by year returning gas crisis makes this socio economic life unsustainable. There is a high demand of alternative energy sources for all segments of human life. PANNERGY Plc. launched a giant program three years ago, to explore and utilize the proven geothermal power of the Pannonian basin, to provide sustainable renewable energy for the countries. |