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Oil Extraction Clue to Mining Heat

Posted October 07, 2006 6:00 AM
Pathfinder Tags: geothermal energy MIT

Naturally occurring sources of geothermal energy are relatively rare. To overcome this, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposes to use oil extraction techniques to obtain geothermal energy on a more widespread basis. High pressure would stimulate the underground rock to form reservoirs through which water could be passed to obtain the energy.

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Re: Oil Extraction Clue to Mining Heat

10/08/2006 12:05 AM

It is true that it gets hotter as you go deeper. Areas that are solid basalt that do down 60KM to reach 1000C are not suitable.

A Swiss project goes into this.

http://www.dhm.ch/dhm-swiss.html

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