Monday, July 22, 2013

United Kingdom, England:

English Town to Explore for Geothermal Energy (The Business Desk)

Cheshire East Council is pushing ahead with plans to harness heat from hot water thousands of meters below Crewe.

It wants to use a 2.5-acre site in Leighton West to investigate the potential of tapping into a geothermal energy source which it says could heat every house in the authority's area.

To exploit it boreholes 4km deep would be drilled to access water at a temperature of up to 100C. This water would then be pumped to the surface and used directly as a heat supply, or to produce steam to power turbines for electricity production.

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