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| Geothermal Resource |

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| The news about the geothermic phenomena date back |
| to antiquity. In the Tabula Itineraria Peutingeriana, a military |
| map of the 3rd century, two important thermal baths are |
| mentioned: the Acquas Volaternas and the Acque |
| Popularie, and in the middle a circular lake |
| which probably represented the boraciferous area, |
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| where a lot of boiling pools were present. |
The geothermal museum was founded |
| The Acquas Volaternas are to be identified with the |
in the ‘50 by Larderello s.p.a. and tells the |
| thermal complex called The Bath in the Middle age |
story of the development of geothermal |
| and in the Renaissance, for the beneficial effects of the |
energy from 1818 to the present day in a |
| waters. Any trace of the Aque Populanie had been lost |
chronologcal order, starting from |
| till an excavation in the area of Sasso Pisano rought to |
the thermal exploitation in roman times |
| light a roman and etruscan thermal complex called |
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till the chemical exploitation in the last |
| Bagno del Re (the king Bath), which we can easily |
century and the production of electricity |
| identify with the Aque Populanie. |
in 1904. The history of the exploitation |

on left the first soffione - on right Putizza |
of geothermal energy is illustrated in all its |
| aspects, from research to drilling, to the |
| various systems for using geothermal |
| fluid for the generation of electricity, |
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thermal power, and mechanical power. |
| Original models and equipment cover |
| the history of drilling. |
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A series of boards use photographs and |
| Industrial activities in Larderello were already present since |
diagrams to explain the genesis of geothermics, |
| '700 , with the exploitation of the geothermal waters for |
the research methods, drilling, and the |
| the production of boric acid and only later for the |
various systems for exploiting this kind of |
| production of electricity, when the prince Piero Ginori lit five |
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energy. Two relief models, one from 1860 |
| light bulbs in 1904. |
and the other from the '90s, show the |
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transformation that took place in the |

Soffioni |
150 years of the industry's development. |
| Four scale models of plants – Larderello 3 |
| (1950), Gabbro (1969), Radicondoli (1981), |
| and the unified 20MW group (1990) – show |
| how this type of plant evolved. |
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In the video lounge you can retrace the |
| history of drilling and the geophysical |
| phenomena which make a territory a geothermal |
| area. On request you can watch the opening |
| of a steam jet which draws the steam 750 |
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metres underground, the temperature is about |
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200°C. the speed with which the
steam goes out |
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is 400m/sec, powerfully producing at the |
| beginning a hiss which becomes a very loud |
| noise. |
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