Geothermal Power

Here's a link to the original entry, Cardio-2.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/3357

I'll add some pathfinder tags to your own story so that a search for volcanoes and/or geothermal power will bring up both pieces.

Also, thanks for your offer of assistance. This is part of what makes CR4 "the place" for engineers.

Moose

In Chile the record depth in perforation is about 9500 meters, in Russia is about 14 Km.

The temperature rises about 1ºC per 30 meters slowly accelerating to 3000 meters, but faster below some 5000 meters, but in some zones the temperature rise in function of depth is much faster. This is a competition somewhat secret, but the idea is not to use volcanoes, because that has proved to be extremely dangerous. Volcanoes should not be perforated, and in Chile it is prohibited.

I guess the idea is just to get close to the normal magma level with a diameter of some 2 meters or so, and introduce a tube with an thermal isolating division all along, but with a communication in the bottom, so the turbine injects the cold water by one side and recovers it as overheated steam by the other. The tube should be of a very flexible corrugated metal with strays alongside, and of inferior diameter of the hole, and later "inflated" to attach to the hole. For the moment is impossible to get more information, but this may be a long-term project. I have been trying to participate with sensors and the like, but until now they prefer to work using brute force and mega machines, God only knows.

Planet Earth has an ultra hyper giant energy reserve just some 20 Km below our feet, the problem is how to extract this energy without need to perforate the cortex.

Jaime Soto Figueroa

http://www.matharts.cl

We can´t realize, why is necessary to be near a volcano! There are so much heat loss in the industries, in all the world, able to run a "low enthalpy" thermal process in better perforrmance way. They have higher temperature flow mass, over 250°C. We mean equipments in Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) very similar to hundreds of geothermal power plants, at only 106°C. For instance, a small 1 MWe, in Altheim, Austrian: http://www.geothermie.de/gte/gte36-37/altheim_gaia.htm

Fernando Vasconcelos

i have gone thro one project using geothermal power for power generation in east africa- kenya in the rift valley

lot of wells bring in the geothermal power- steam thro drilled pipes for 1000 meters deep down from the earth

and being used even today in kenya - east africa for part of power generation

just for information please

I have head of geothermal taps in Iceland.

Try a google search.