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Hot Rock Joins Geothermal Survey Project (iT News)

Visualisation of the Australian National Gravity Database 0.5 Minute Onshore Gravity Grid 2008. It represents spherical cap Bouguer gravity anomalies of continental Australia and uses the Australian Absolute Gravity Datum. (Courtesy NICTA)

Geothermal explorer Hot Rock Ltd has become the third firm to join a NICTA (National ICT Australia) analytics project that hopes to identify underground energy sources without drilling.

The project was conceived in mid-2011 and kicked off last year with a total of $5 million in funding, including $1.9 million from the Federal Government.

To date, NICTA has delivered a continent-wide data portal, standard data format and sophisticated 3D visualisation software.

The second portion of the project, which commenced this year, will see NICTA use the compiled data to generate models and test them against real-world results from the Cooper Basin, between South Australia and Queensland.

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