31 gen. – Heat two municipal buildings and provide public and private companies in the area the opportunity’ to take advantage of the hot water is found underground in the lagoon of Grado. These are the goals that you set a project funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and the Municipality of Grado, supported by the European Union through the Structural Fund Objective 2, presented today in the Island Gold.
The project, which involves a commitment to the region of one million 200 thousand euros, while a similar amount and’ made available by the local civic administration, would be achieved by drilling a well, that will push’ up to about seven hundred meters deep ', and will have’ allow engineers to quantify the magnitude’ Hot water resources available in the underground. This is a project of great topical’ also because’ coincides with the goals it sets for the seven European programming 2007-2013, In accordance with the Gothenburg Agenda, with which advocates sustainable development of the territory, and the Lisbon Agenda, development and employment.
Research on alternative and renewable sources of energy – and’ been stressed – have certainly accelerated by the oil crisis, but especially from the knowledge attained by the entire community’ internationally against the need to protect our habitat and have the same energy sources other than fossil, which are among the other running low compared to the global need. Well, as explained by Titian Tirelli, Director of the Geological Environment and Public Works Directorate, is digging (has now reached 530 meters in depth ') in the most’ west of the island of Grado, on the beach, near the waterway access to the lagoon. If the search depth’ will succeed, that it will reach’ the basin of hot water at a temperature of about fifty-five degrees, will then be made for district heating systems of buildings owned’ the City.
E’ been calculated that it would be possible to withdraw from the underground (without damaging the ecosystem and the underground’ provided the subsequent reintroduction of water into groundwater), twenty-two liters of water per second at a temperature of 55 building. This’ allow for an annual estimated production of around two megawatts of energy.
Namely, would save approximately 1.700 tons of oil a year for heating: ottomilaottocento the equivalent of barrels of crude oil. (AGI)
