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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by jorams on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:02PM (#15163175)
Do you have more information on this geothermal energy? Clicking around here[1] suggests the Netherlands doesn't actually use much geothermal energy at all.

[1]: https://www.geothermal-energy.org/direct_uses/netherlands.ht...

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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by mcv on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:30PM (#15163712)
It's also news to me. Most of our energy still comes from coal and gas, I believe. I believe we were once ahead of the pack in wind energy, but the conservative politics of the past decade and a half has made us fall behind the rest of Europe in switching to sustainable energy.
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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by ars on Sunday September 03, 2017 @05:06PM (#15163916)
From the article:

"The growing environment is kept at optimal temperatures year-round by heat generated from geothermal aquifers that simmer under at least half of the Netherlands."

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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by jstsch on Sunday September 03, 2017 @05:50PM (#15164131)
It's deep geothermic energy, you gotta drill >500 meters to get to it. So indeed not as easy as for example Iceland.
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