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The temperature of groundwater is influenced by air temperature to depths of about 50 m. Below this, additional heat is obtained from the rocks with which the water is in contact. The total amount of heat stored in the top 10 km of the earth’ s crust represents more than 5000 times the thermal energy available in world coal resources (Bouwer, 1978), but only a fraction of this is accessible.
While the red fires of smouldering clouds out-brake … The oped Earth, aghast With terror of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake. Hymn — On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, Milton, 1645
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© 1997 M. Albu, D. Banks and H. Nash
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Albu, M., Banks, D., Nash, H. (1997). Thermal water systems. In: Mineral and Thermal Groundwater Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5846-6_4
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