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Old Oil Fields Could be Geothermal Power Source (Canadian Business)

A goup of rock outcrops at RMOTC's 

energy testing center. (Courtesy RMOTC)

The Teapot Dome in central Wyoming will always be associated with one of the nation's biggest political scandals in history, but these days the old oil field is a participant in developing a new type of clean, renewable energy.

The field, now known as the Rocky Mountain Oil Test Center (RMOTC) and owned by U.S. Energy Department, is the site of a demonstration project that takes hot water extracted as a byproduct of oil and gas wells and turns it into geothermal power.

The process benefits both the environment and oil and gas production by broadening and extending the use of perhaps thousands of oil and gas field across the country while creating a new source of clean, reliable energy.

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