Boiling Hot: Why Fracking’s Gusher of Geothermal Energy is Wasted (NPR KUHF-FM)
There are thousands of oil & gas wells in Texas that tap into the earth’s supply of hot water, some of it a boiling hot 250 F. There are modern, high tech steam engines that could use the water to make electricity. There was a federally-funded experimental power plant that proved the technology could work in Texas.
Yet, geothermal power has gotten a cold shoulder in the state.
“They made (the power plant) work, they proved it was successful, and then they dismantled it because they didn’t have funding to keep the project going,” said GRC member Maria Richards, a researcher at Southern Methodist University (SMU)’s Geothermal Laboratory. (AUDIO 3:23 Minutes)
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